The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit - Couverture souple

Nesbit, Edith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2382260785 ISBN 13 : 9782382260784

Editeur : Sahara Publisher Books, 1907

Synopsis

The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathy, who discover it while exploring during the school holidays. The lake, groves and marble stas, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a fairy-tale setting, and then in the middle of the maze in the rose garden, they find a sleeping fairy-tale princess.
The "princess" tells them that the castle is full of magic, and they almost believe her. She shows them the treasures of the castle, including a magic ring she says is a ring of inibility, but when it actually turns her inible she panics and admits that she is the housekeeper's niece, Mabel, and was just play-acting.
The children soon find that the ring has other magical powers such as making the "Ugly-Wugglies" (Guy Fawkes style dummies they had made to swell the audience at one of their play-performances) come to life. They eventually discover that the ring is actually granting their own wishes, and that the disturbing results stem from their failure to specify those wishes precisely.
The Enchanted Castle  was written for both children and adults. It combines descriptions of the imaginative play of children, reminiscent of  The Story of the Treasure Seekers , with a magic more muted than in her major fantasies such as  The Story of the Amulet .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sahara Publisher Books
• Date d'édition: 1907
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2382260785
• ISBN 13: 9782382260784
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne