The Enchanted Castle

Name: The Enchanted Castle
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: E. Nesbit
ISBN: 9781470356545

Author: E. Nesbit

Narrator: Virginia Leishman

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/15/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen can't go home for their school holiday because their cousin is sick with measles there. Instead, they stay at Kathleen's school with the French teacher. One morning, they set out to find adventure. Instead, they find an enchanted place--and magic, too! Walking through a nearby forest, they discover an enormous mansion, where a girl lies asleep in the garden. Although she pretends to be an enchanted princess, she is Mabel, the housekeeper's niece. But she has a ring that really is magical. It can make the wearer invisible and grant wishes. It's not long before the four friends are surrounded by strange and wonderful things. E. Nesbit, born in 1858, was an unconventional woman whose home was a center for writers and artists, including George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells. When she was asked to try her hand at children's stories, she created a series of books that combined fantasy and memories of her own childhood. First published in 1907, The Enchanted Castle is a timeless story of friendship and magic.

About E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult. With her husband, Hubert Bland, she was one of the founder members of the socialist Fabian Society; their household became a centre of the socialist and literary circles of the times. E. Nesbit turned late to children's writing. Her first children's book, The Treasure Seekers, was published in 1899 to great acclaim. Other books featuring the Bastable children followed, and a series of magical fantasy books, including Five Children and It also became very popular. The Railway Children was first published monthly in the London Magazine in 1905, and published as a book in 1906, which has been in print ever since.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny

This is a novel I like a lot, which I've experienced in different ways at different points in my life. I first read it when I was six or seven, and thought it was a great story. There are these kids, and they find a castle, and a magic ring. At first they think it's an invisibility ring. Then, to th......more

Goodreads review by Hilary

This story is wonderful. I have memories of this reading this as a child and of watching a BBC serial of the book when I was 6 yrs old. Reliving the part of the story that stuck with me, the part where the children put on a play and short of audience members they make some out of hats, coats and hoc......more

Goodreads review by Heather

E. Nesbit is one of the greatest authors of all time. You might not think so, but if you could only see the chain of minds that lead directly from children like me who read her books and grew up to be grown ups that believe in the power of both magic, and common sense, it would be a golden chain of......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache

I want everyone that follows my reviews to understand that in certain matters my objectivity succumbs to my subjectivity, as in this book. I try: God knows, I try. This is a first time read for me, despite the book’s status as “Classic.” It really reminded me of my own childhood with my brother, Mar......more

Goodreads review by Chris

There are two types of enchantment in this book. One is the everyday sort, evidenced by how enthralled the reader might be as they proceed through the book, and especially by the young charmer Gerald who sweet-talks his way through pretty much every situation. This is enchantment that lives up to th......more