The Enchanted Castle (Puffin Classics)
by E. Nesbit
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Author: E. NesbitBrand: Penguin Group USA
Illustrator: H. R. Millar
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-07-01
ISBN: 0140367438
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Puffin
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- ISBN13: 9780140367430
- Condition: USED - Very Good
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Book Reviews of The Enchanted Castle (Puffin Classics)
Book Review: The best book I've come across in some time
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book in a thrift store last week, and thougt it looked interesting, so I bought. I cannot think of any time I have gotten more for my 75 cents. I was truly amazed at the quality of this book. Mrs. Nesbit has the same magical writing ability as C. S. Lewis. I would not be very surprised if I were to learn that Lewis got some of his ideas for the Narnian Chronicles from this book, as there are many similarities.
This book seemed very much like a book Lewis would have written, though it is lacking his Christian ideas and themes. The characters are amazingly good, as each of the four children has a very unique personality, and it is very interesting to see how each person responds to the situations that arise. I must say that Gerald is one of the best characters in fiction in a very long time. He ranks up there with Mr. Bennet of Pride and Prejudice.
I have encountered very few writers that write truly magical stories. By this I mean that they write stories that somehow feel real. They make an adult feel like a child again while the story lasts. Such authers would be C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Susan Cooper, and newly arrived into my elite group, Edith Nesbit. I am very eager to find more of her work in the hopes that it will be just as good.
Overall grade: A+
Summary of The Enchanted Castle (Puffin Classics)
E. Nesbit's classic story of how Gerald, Cathy and Jimmy find an enchanted garden and awake a princess from a hundred-year sleep, only to have her immediately made invisible by a magic ring. Her rescue is difficult, funny and sometimes frightening.A plot summary makes this story sound ordinary by children's literature standards: the summer adventures of four children who discover an enchanted castle and a magic ring. But Edith Nesbit's adored classic (written in 1907) is so much more than the description suggests. Right from the start, the author plays with the idea of magic, teasing us with a sleeping princess who turns out to be a fake. Elsewhere, the magic is "real" as can be--in fact, though written nearly 100 years ago, The Enchanted Castle prefigures the magical realism of modern novels in the matter-of-fact way it weaves the uncanny into the children's everyday life. And, while few authors are confident enough to parody bad writing, Nesbit does it hilariously (and ever so gently) through one character's tendency to "talk like a book": "'To brush his hair and his clothes... was to our hero but the work of a moment,' said Gerald." Things turn scary when the Ugly Wuglies, fake people made from painted cardboard masks, old clothes, and broomsticks, come to life. But on the whole this book about enchantment--much praised by such luminaries as H.G. Wells and Noel Coward--is, simply, enchanting. (Ages 6 and older) --Richard Farr
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