Farah Mendlesohn: 5 books

This is a major new study of an SF titan: alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, Heinlein is considered one of the genre's 'big three'. Farah Mendlesohn is one of our foremost writers on science fiction and fantasy: alongside her several acclaimed books, she has chaired the Science...

Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions...

Everything changes for Ann Gray when her father dies and her closest friend Jane marries and moves away. Ann must give up the independence and purpose she found as mistress of her father's parsonage in the country, and move to her uncle and aunt's new-style house in the growing city of Birmingham....

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel. Tracing the history...