Tales Before Narnia

Informationen zum Autor Edited and with commentary by Douglas A. Anderson Klappentext In his acclaimed collection Tales Before Tolkien! Douglas A. Anderson illuminated the sources! inspirations! and influences that fired J.R.R. Tolkien's genius. Now Anderson turns his attention to Tolkien's colleague and friend C. S. Lewis! whose influence on modern fantasy! through his beloved Narnia books! is second only to Tolkien's own. In many ways! Lewis's influence has been even wider than Tolkien's. For in addition to the Narnia series! Lewis wrote groundbreaking works of science fiction! urban fantasy! and religious allegory! and he came to be regarded as among the most important Christian writers of the twentieth century. It will come as no surprise! then! that such a wide-ranging talent drew inspiration from a variety of sources. Here are twenty of the tributaries that fed Lewis's unique talent! among them: "The Wood That Time Forgot: The Enchanted Wood!" taken from a never-before-published fantasy by Lewis's biographer and friend! Roger Lancelyn Green! that directly inspired The Lion! the Witch! and the Wardrobe; E. Nesbit's charming "The Aunt and Amabel!" in which a young girl enters another world by means of a wardrobe; "The Snow Queen!" by Hans Christian Andersen! featuring the abduction of a young boy by a woman as cruel as she is beautiful; and many more! including works by Charles Dickens! Kenneth Grahame! G. K. Chesterton! and George MacDonald! of whom Lewis would write! "I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master." Full of fascinating insights into Lewis's life and fiction! Tales Before Narnia is the kind of book that will be treasured by children and adults alike and passed down lovingly from generation to generation. INCLUDING SEVENTEEN MORE WORKS BY THE PROGENITORS OF MODERN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: "Tegnér's Drapa" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Magic Mirror" by George MacDonald "Undine" by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué "Letters from Hell: Letter III" by Valdemar Thisted "Fastosus and Avaro" by John Macgowan "The Tapestried Chamber; or! The Lady in the Sacque" by Sir Walter Scott "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" by Charles Dickens "The Child and the Giant" by Owen Barfield "A King's Lesson" by William Morris "The Waif Woman: A Cue-From a Saga" by Robert Louis Stevenson "First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame "The Wish House" by Rudyard Kipling "Et in Sempiternum Pereant" by Charles Williams "The Dragon's Visit" by J.R.R. Tolkien "The Coloured Lands" by G. K. Chesterton "The Man Who Lived Backwards" by Charles F. Hall "The Dream Dust Factory" by William Lindsay Gresham Chapter 1 The Aunt and Amabel by E. Nesbit Lewis enjoyed the writings of E. Nesbit from the time he was a child. When he began writing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he told a friend that he had begun a children's book "in the tradition of E. Nesbit." "The Aunt and Amabel" prefigures Lewis's first Narnia adventure in that the young girl Amabel enters another world by means of a wardrobe, finding therein a magical train station called "Bigwardrobeinspareroom." In chapter 2 of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the faun Mr. Tumnus similarly speaks of "the far land of Spare Oom" and of "the bright city of War Drobe." "The Aunt and Amabel" was first published in Blackie's Children's Annual (1909), and collected in The Magic World (1912). It is not pleasant to be a fish out of water. To be a cat in water is not what any one would desire. To be in a temper is uncomfortable. And no one can fully taste the joys of life if he is in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. But by far the most uncomfortable thing to be in is disgrace, sometimes amusingly called Coventry by the people who are not in it.

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