New Novel Launched
Today we're thrilled to announce the long-awaited launch of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Apart from being source material for a groundbreaking film, this novel from 1900 is a spectacular work of fiction. It parallels in many aspects Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- most clearly in the young heroine's descent through some mishap (either falling down a hole or getting caught in a tornado) into a fantasy world of imagination. Both have to learn the ropes and the new rules of natural order in these strange lands.
It's a theme that runs through much of the great fairy literature of the 20th century; even C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia (which, regrettably, due to copyright restrictions we are unable to publish) provided an escape for otherwise bored children into a world just outside their own (in fact, the horror works of H.P. Lovecraft carry this idea through to a more frightening conclusion).
The fantasy works of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), while presuming to be historical, drew on a slightly different theme providing a teleological outline for the nobility of man in spite of the devastation wrought by two World Wars.
Escapism in late 19th- and early 20th-century speculative fiction provided a respite from the doldrums of industrial society, and later from the terrors of war.
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Yes, new chapters have also been added to our previous novels. Our ring is now complete! If you haven't had a chance yet, visit and bookmark the following stories:
Apart from being source material for a groundbreaking film, this novel from 1900 is a spectacular work of fiction. It parallels in many aspects Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- most clearly in the young heroine's descent through some mishap (either falling down a hole or getting caught in a tornado) into a fantasy world of imagination. Both have to learn the ropes and the new rules of natural order in these strange lands.
It's a theme that runs through much of the great fairy literature of the 20th century; even C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia (which, regrettably, due to copyright restrictions we are unable to publish) provided an escape for otherwise bored children into a world just outside their own (in fact, the horror works of H.P. Lovecraft carry this idea through to a more frightening conclusion).
The fantasy works of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), while presuming to be historical, drew on a slightly different theme providing a teleological outline for the nobility of man in spite of the devastation wrought by two World Wars.
Escapism in late 19th- and early 20th-century speculative fiction provided a respite from the doldrums of industrial society, and later from the terrors of war.
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Yes, new chapters have also been added to our previous novels. Our ring is now complete! If you haven't had a chance yet, visit and bookmark the following stories:
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