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Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote in [personal profile] starlady 2011-01-18 04:59 am (UTC)

Oh indeed. And then compare further back to E. Nesbit's books. And then sideways to the contemporaneous Edward Eager fantasies. (I was about to include Swallows and Amazons, but no, they're actually older, between Nesbit and Lewis. But somehow they feel as modern as Lewis and Eager.)

---L.

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