The Magic World: The Cat-Hood of Maurice;the Mixed Mine;Accidental Magic;the Princessand the Hedge-Pig;Septimus Septimusson;the White Cat;be Linda And . Carp;the Magician's Heart (Puffin Classics)

E. Nesbit

ISBN 10: 0140350942 / ISBN 13: 9780140350944

Published by Puffin Classics 28/07/1988, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Magic World: The Cat-Hood of Maurice;the Mixed Mine;Accidental Magic;the Princessand the Hedge-Pig;Septimus Septimusson;the White Cat;be Linda And . Carp;the Magician's Heart (Puffin Classics)
• Publisher: Puffin Classics 28/07/1988
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140350942
• ISBN 13: 9780140350944
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A thoughtless boy learns a lesson from his cat; a magic telescope brings two boys a fortune; a crow, a cat, a fish, all whisk away disgraced children to castles; sensible princes and princesses outwit curses ..
1 The Cat-hood of Maurice
2 The Mixed Mine
3 Accidental Magic
4 The Princess and the Hedge-pig
5 Septimus Septimusson
6 The White Cat
7 Belinda and Bellamant
8 Justnowland
9 The Related Muff
10 The Aunt and Amabel
11 Kenneth and the Carp
12 The Magician's Heart

About the Author

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.

She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of fiction for children.

Nesbit published approximately 40 books for children, including novels, collections of stories and picture books. Collaborating with others, she published almost as many more.

According to her biographer Julia Briggs, Nesbit was "the first modern writer for children": "(Nesbit) helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels." Briggs also credits Nesbit with having invented the children's adventure story. Noël Coward was a great admirer of hers and, in a letter to an early biographer Noel Streatfeild, wrote "she had an economy of phrase, and an unparalleled talent for evoking hot summer days in the English countryside."