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Title: The Magic World (Puffin Classics) by Edith Nesbit ISBN: 0-14-036765-9 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Valuable Stories
Comment: This is a great book. I bought it when I was about to go on a trip, and I couldn't read it until I got on the plane. I allowed myself to read one story. The story was "The White Cat". Now, this was a great story, with a great charector. The white cat enchanted me, especialy because my grandmother had a white china cat. It was all I could do to wait until the plane to read the rest, but I did. The rest of the book was great, too, but my favorite story was still the White Cat. Some of my other favorite stories were Belenda and Bellamont, the Princess and the Hedge Pig, and the Cathood of Maurice. These are really great stories. After awhile, I got my grandma to give me her own white cat, and I felt so glad. These stories have great effects on the readers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magic and common sense!
Comment: I have to say, I love E Nesbit's works! It's not just the magic, it's the characters and humour, and I love the way real-life situations mix in with the magic! (hmmm... mentioned 'magic' twice already...)
There are twelve stories in all... and I can't summarise them all for you... but "Septimus Septimusson" (my favourite) was amusing, about the seventh son of a seventh son who had to go seek his fortune. Unfortunately I can't think of anyway to summarise this story either (gives away the "plot line"), so in conclusion:
MAGIC + HUMOUR + REAL-LIFE SITUATIONS + HUMOUR
I'm sorry it's not a very good review, though.
Rating: 5
Summary: If I Could Give This Book 10,000 Stars -- I Would! :)
Comment: This book is a collection of short stories, and finding it again has been a highly emotional experience for me. I had read it YEARS ago in the Library when I was but a small child, and loved every syllable of it; then the Library LOST it, and I pined for it terribly. I had even forgotten its title (I had *thought* it was "Nine Unlikely Tales" -- perhaps an alternate title?).
Then about eight years ago, as an adult of 32, I FINALLY laid hands on a copy of "The Magic World" once more. Oh my! How I adored reading those old fine magical stories again! How I wept -- WEPT! -- to read all those old stories which I had so long loved and lost and now found again! Who could ever forget such stories as "Accidental Magic", or "The Cat-Hood Of Maurice", or "Kenneth And The Carp", or "Belinda And Bellamant; Or The Bells Of Carrillon-Land"??? This last has a very catchy verse in it ("Out! Out! Into the night!/The belfry bells are ours by right!") which I have never forgotten and which I looked for -- and found -- and triumphantly BELLOWED at the very top of my lungs the instant the book was again in my hands! Ah, me!!!
These stories are all "Classic Nesbit", and even if the book is "brand new" to you and not nostalgic as it is for me, it is still well worth the getting, and at a VERY reasonable price!
One final note of historic literary interest: the story "The Aunt and Amabel" -- with its train station tucked away inside a wardrobe in a spare room -- was C. S. Lewis' inspiration for setting the land of Narnia inside a similar wardrobe in "The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe". :)
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Title: The Enchanted Castle (Puffin Classics) by Edith Nesbit ISBN: 0140367438 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Five Children and It (Puffin Classics - The Essential Collection) by H. R. Millar, Edith Nesbit ISBN: 0140367357 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Phoenix and the Carpet (Puffin Classics) by H. R. Millar, Edith Nesbit, Patricia MacDonald ISBN: 014036739X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Railway Children (Puffin Classics) by C. E. Brock, Edith Nesbit ISBN: 0140366717 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Puffin Classics) by Cecil Leslie, Edith Nesbit ISBN: 0140367063 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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