“…Drawing on meticulous archival research, Ordway shows how Tolkien appreciated authors as diverse as James Joyce and Beatrix Potter, Rider Haggard and Edith Nesbit, William Morris and Kenneth Grahame. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "El coronel británico Percy Harrison Fawcett—figura en que se inspiró Spielberg para su Indiana Jones—desapareció en la selva de Brasil en 1925. Amigo de H. Rider Haggard (el autor de Las minas del rey Salomón) y de Arthur Conan Doyle, que escribió la novela El mundo perdido tras haber leído sus diarios, estaba convencido—por un manuscrito encontrado en la Biblioteca Nacional de Brasil—de que sabía la localización de un lugar escondido, la ciudad perdida de“Z”. …”

“…He focused particularly on the contra-sexual elements of the personality, the anima and the animus, which he discussed with the participants through psychological analyses of popular novels, such as Rider Haggard's She. The notes from these seminars form the only reliable published autobiographical account by Jung and the clearest and most important account of the development of his work. …”

“…In the elucidation of that theory, Jung analyzed in detail the symbolism in Rider Haggard's She and other novels. Besides these literary paradigms, he made use of case material, examples in the fine arts, and diagrams…”

“…Neben klassischen Abenteuerautoren, wie Karl May oder Rider Haggard, stehen Texte von Goethe, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust u.a. im Fokus, welche das Abenteuer in einem Spannungsfeld von Integration und Zurückweisung situieren. …”

“…Outlining practical steps for humanists who want to help shape public policy, this book offers vivid readings of novels by H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, Robert Heinlein, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. …”