Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien
★ 8.5 · 2022 · 48m · Documentary
An extraordinary variety of writers, who often suffered terrible adversity throughout their lives, created wonderful places full of happiness in which children lived far from the sorrows of adult life.
Episodes
1. Episode 148m · About Lewis Carroll, Arthur Ransome and A. A. Milne.
2. Episode 248m · About J. M. Barrie, Beatrix Potter, Edith Nesbit and Frances H. Burnett.
3. Episode 348m · About Noel Streatfeild, Enid Blyton, Rudyard Kipling and Kenneth Grahame.
4. Episode 448m · About J. R. R. Tolkien and Erskine Childers.More Like This
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