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Follow This Thread
A Maze Book to Get Lost In
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Ideal for readers fascinated by puzzles, mythology, art, and unconventional book design, as well as fans of literary exploration and interactive, mind-bending narratives.
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An immersive journey into the labyrinthine world of mazes - take hold of Ariadne's thread and turn the page.
As a rule, we take care not to get lost, so why should we willingly enter a maze? Illustrated with a single red line, Follow This Thread traces dozens of real and historical mazes, and their uses in literature, art and film, from Pac-Man and Picasso to Kubrick and Kafka.
Henry Eliot reveals our abiding, ancient relationship with mazes and labyrinths, and unpicks the paradoxical psychology involved in walking them, combining the myth of the Minotaur with a quest for the legendary Maze King, who disappeared in 1979. The text coils around the pages, recreating the experience of walking a labyrinth, with its twists and turns, frights and fantasies.
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Praised by Philip Pullman as "delightful, ingenious and beautifully designed," the book has been celebrated for its wit and innovative format, with the New Statesman noting its inventive interplay of text and illustration that recreates the labyrinthine experience. The Spectator calls it "genuinely odd" and highly giftable, while author Alan Connor describes it as a "hypnotising and strangely physical experience." The Bookseller regards it as a "remarkable feat of creativity," and Greg Bright, the 'Maze King', commends its "beautifully immaculate prose" and coherence.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780141985251
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Quibe
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 384g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
Henry Eliot is the author of The Penguin Classics Book and the presenter of the podcast On the Road with Penguin Classics. He has organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which raised money for the National Literacy Trust, a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte D'Arthur. He is also the author of Follow This Thread- A Maze Book to Get Lost In and Curiocity- An Alternative A to Z of London.
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