FAVOURITE CLASSIC WRITERS

Find out about the lives and works of the writers of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE and many other all-time favourite stories.

Novelists and storytellers introduced in this book include Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Louis Stevenson, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Ransome, Richmal Crompton, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. B. White and Tove Jansson.

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Find out about Louisa May Alcott’s home Orchard House, now a museum, from its website.
7 For a more detailed biography of Lewis Carroll, look at the Lewis Carroll website.
9 This Wikipedia entry has more useful information about the life and work of Frances Hodgson Burnett.
11 Go to the University of South Carolina’s website to see a fascinating on-line exhibition of photos and artefacts from Robert Louis Stevenson’s life.
13 For a biography with links to more information about people and organisations associated with Edith Nesbit, look at this page of the Spartacus Educational website.
15 More useful information about Kenneth Grahame can be found on the books section of the BBC website.
19 The Arthur Ransome website has a fascinating range of resources including photos of people, places and maps from Ransome’s books.
21 For a complete list of the ‘William’ books and Richmal Crompton’s other books look at this Fantastic Fiction website.
23 The Tolkien Society website provides a huge range of resources about Tolkien and his books, and these pages from it give a detailed biography.
23 The National Geographic website also has a lot about THE LORD OF THE RINGS and these pages give details of the myths that inspired the book.

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 For more information about the C. S. Lewis, the Narnia books and a quiz to test your Narnia knowledge go to the Discover Narnia website.
27 The HarperChildren’s publishers website has more information on E. B. White and quotes by him on how he came to write his stories.
29 The Virtual Finland website has more detailed information about Tove Jansson and the world of the Moomins.