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Hardcover The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America Book

ISBN: 0195038061

ISBN13: 9780195038064

The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America

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The Man in the Moon has dropped down to earth for a visit. Over the hedge, a rabbit in trousers is having a pipe with his evening paper. Elsewhere, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to heaven. To enter the world of children's literature is to journey to a realm where the miraculous and the mundane exist side by side, a world that is at once recognizable and real--and enchanted...

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the ideal story represents the biblical view of wisdom

The ideal tale teaches moral wisdom as represented in the Book of Proverbs; the fairy godmother represents Dame Wisdom. Goldthwaite presents a rare Christian literary point of view and criticizes writers who represent the world in some gnostic or pagan point of view. He does not bother to argue the validity of his point of view. He believes. Earth and the Heavans are God's. Writers who do not reflect this are either...

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