Mayne, W.

Japanese: Mayne,W.(英語表記)MayneW
Mayne, W.

...C.S. Lewis dealt with issues of good and evil in his seven stories about the fictional country of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, 1950-56), PL Travers's five-part Mary Poppins series (1934-82) created a humorous new witch, and M. Norton also depicted a miniature world of dwarfs who live by borrowing things from humans in a five-part series (1952-82). Fantasy is the essence of British children's literature, and many excellent works were produced in the 1950s and 1960s, including P. Pearce's Tom in the Midnight Garden (1958), LM Boston's Green Knowe series (1954-76), R. Hoban's The Adventures of the Mouse and His Son (1967), A. Garner's works based on Welsh legends (1960-), and W. Mayne's The Vanishing Drummer (1966). In 1972, R. Adams wrote the animal fantasy The Rabbits of Watership Down.

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Japanese:

…C.S.ルイスが架空の国ナルニアの7部の物語(《ナルニア国ものがたり》1950‐56)で善悪の問題を取り扱い,トラバーズP.L.Traversの〈メリー(メアリー)・ポピンズ〉5部作(1934‐82)はユーモアをこめて新しい魔女をつくり出し,ノートンM.Nortonも人間から物を借りてくらす小人たちのミニアチュア世界を5部作(1952‐82)で描いてみせた。 ファンタジーはイギリス児童文学の真骨頂というべく,その後もピアスP.Pearce《トムは真夜中の庭で》(1958)やボストンL.M.Bostonの〈グリーン・ノウ〉(1954‐76)の連作,ホーバンR.Hobanの《親子ネズミの冒険》(1967),ガーナーA.Garnerのウェールズ伝説に根ざした諸作(1960‐),メーンW.Mayneの《地に消える少年鼓手》(1966)などの秀作が生まれ,1950年代から60年代の隆盛期を現出させた。72年には動物ファンタジー《ウォーターシップ・ダウンのうさぎたち》がアダムズR.Adamsによって書かれた。…

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