But once on, the ring wonât come off! âThose of my readers who have gone about much with an invisible companion will not need to be told how awkward the whole business is,â comments the author, which is indicative of the simple and direct language she uses, and the humor of the books. They wake her, and she introduces them to an item of real magical value, a ring which makes its wearer invisible. It is not long before they come across a sleeping Princess.
In the story, Kathleen and her brothers Gerald and Jimmy find a way into a remarkable garden designed to create a Palladian landscape, full of statues and pseudo-Classical temples and buildings. The first book edition was published in 1907. The Enchanted Castle was originally serialized in The Strand Magazine alongside stories by Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle. Itâs the contrast between the ordinariness of the children and the magical adventures they become involved in which makes the books so charming.
A large part of the delight of Nesbitâs books is that her children behave in quite ordinary ways, getting into scrapes, getting dirty and their clothes torn, making decisions which seem right to them at the time but which are generally wrong-headed. As in her other childrenâs books, it begins in the everyday world but quickly brings in the fantastical and magical. The Enchanted Castle is a novel for young readers by Edith Nesbit, who was writing in the late Victorian and early Edwardian era in Britain. Standard Ebooksħ0,500 words (4 hours 17 minutes) with a reading ease of 82.54 (easy) Nesbit - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
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