5/24/2023 0 Comments The enchanted castle book![]() The culmination of the book is heart-opening, and a wonderful reminder that magic is a gift we all need to cherish. What can one expect with a magical ring leading the children on its merry chase? And yet, every adventure, seemingly insoluble, ends up leading to something very great indeed. Each time it appears that one mystery is solved, another pops up. Perhaps the most surprising element of this book is the amount of surprising twists and turns. On later investigation, I discovered that Nesbit not only wrote magical books, but influenced an entire generation of children’s book writers who in their own way wrote classics as well. I don’t know if there is a proper order for reading all the books of Nesbit, but The Enchanted Castle was the first I read after I became aware of her works through references in a contemporary children’s book, Half Magic. Edith Nesbit is a master of leading children from their daily world to the world of magic, and back, as if the curtain were as thin as gossamer. ![]() The quote for this children’s book says it all. ![]() “There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.” ![]()
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