Literary Worlds Series: Literary Wonderlands : A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created (Hardcover)

from Mary

This book is so special and amazing to the avid reader of wonderlands across time. I cannot say enough about how interesting this book is and how it will introduce you to new authors. I can, however, say that the shipping was subpar. It was in such a tight shipping form that it bent the binding a...

from Jaylia3

This is a truly beautiful book, with gorgeous color illustrations on almost every page 2-page spread, so reading it, even flipping through it, is a delight.The first thing I did was check to see which of my favorite literary worlds had been included, and I read those entries feeling great pleasur...

from Kellswitch

This book ended up not being what I initially thought it was going to be, I thought it was going to be a sort of cutesy, let's pretend these places are real look at the different worlds in fiction. Instead it was a surprisingly informative (for the relatively short entries per world) look at what...

from PDCRead

People have been immersing themselves in stories for thousands of years, originally these were passed from person to person before someone had the genius idea of writing them down. What stories though are the defining example of a type? Literary Wonderlands tries to do this by picking around 100 ...

from Fergster73

Fails somewhat in its stated aim in that many of the critiques focus on the author and the story rather than the setting of a given work, but as a general overview of SFF throughout the ages, it's still a very enjoyable read.Some notable exclusions, though: neither Herbert's Dune, Eddings' world ...