Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Includes exclusive content: In the Backstory you can find out more about the author and take the Enchanted Castle quiz! But with the air thick with magic, the sun blazing down, and a maze hiding a sleeping girl at its centre, the holidays might just be looking up. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the center of a maze. Nesbit Narrated by Peter Eastman ( 0 ratings ) About this audiobook Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. Could this really be an enchanted castle? Don't be a duffer, there's no such thing. The Enchanted Castle Show full title Written by E. But that's before they stumble upon a mysterious castle set in beautiful, abandoned gardens. When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.'If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be' In the middle of a maze at a country estate, three children discover a sleeping. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. The Enchanted Castle is a 1907 childrens fantasy book by Edith Nesbit. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty.
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