Peter Hunt

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two of the most famous fantasies in world literature, yet their roots are firmly in nineteenth-century Oxford, England. The streets, colleges, buildings, the River Thames, and the villages on its banks in Oxford are imbued with literally hundreds of intricate connections to these books. Their author, Charles Dodgson, also known as...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two of the most famous, translated, and quoted books in the world. What began as a simple tale told by eccentric Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) to Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, became a worldwide phenomenon. Fostering film adaptations and retellings, and influencing...

The Wind in the Willows has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held in the Bodleian Library) while he was on holiday. But the book developed into something much more sophisticated than this, as Peter Hunt shows. He identifies the colleagues and friends on whom Grahame...

J.R.R. Tolkien is arguably the most influential and popular of all fantasy writers. Although his position and status have long been controversial, his popularity has not faded. His best-loved works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, have sold millions of copies around the world and continue to enthral readers young and old. This lively collection of original essays...