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Asimov's Science Fiction 2009 No 3 by J.R.R. Tolkien; Robert Louis Stevenson; Sir Walter Scott; Rudyard Kipling; Douglas A. Anderson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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, fea

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Author
J.R.R. Tolkien; Robert Louis Stevenson; Sir Walter Scott; Rudyard Kipling; Douglas A. Anderson
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9781419727498
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Short Stories, Biography, Memoir
Rating
3.7 / 5 (81 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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