by Humphrey Carpenter · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780044400561
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«Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature» is Humphrey Carpenter's critical study, published by HarperCollins in paperback.
The book covers the golden age of English children's literature, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, when titles such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, Winnie the Pooh, and Beatrix Potter's tales appeared. Carpenter examines their authors and legacy with rigour and readability.
This essay was originally published in 1985; this edition is from 1987. Carpenter co-wrote The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.
For readers interested in the history of children's literature and the classics of English fiction.
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society the Inklings. He won a Mythopoeic Award for his book The Inklings in 1982.
