The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit AudioBook Unabridged

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Jimmy, Gerald, and Cathy hope to find adventure when they set off to explore the woods, but they get far more than they bargained for when they discover the Enchanted Castle. At first, they seem to be in a fairy tale come true, until a friend turns invisible, thanks to a magic ring she can’t remove. Adventure follows adventure as they seek to control the magic—but the magic has a will of its own, and it is all they can do to keep up. Faced with sleeping princesses, magic rings, and moonlit gardens filled with enchantment, the children must use all their courage and ingenuity to control the magic and solve the mystery surrounding the Enchanted Castle.

About Edith Nesbit

Edith nesbit was from 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater London), the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Edith nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her sister Mary's ill health meant that your choice of family moved around constantly for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for a few years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which later inspired The Railway Children (this distinction been specifically claimed simply because of the Derbyshire town of New Mills).

When Edith nesbit was 17, the whole family moved again, on this occasion back to London, living variously in South East London at Eltham, Lewisham, Grove Park and Lee.

19-year-old Edith nesbit met bank clerk Hubert Bland in 1877. Seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880, though she still did not immediately live with him, as Bland initially continued to reside in in reference to his mother. Their marriage had been a stormy one. As soon as possible Edith discovered another woman believed she was Hubert's fiancee and had also borne him a child. A much more serious blow came later when Edith discovered that her good friend, Alice Hoatson, was pregnant with Hubert's child. Edith had already decided to have adopt Hoatson's child and allow Hoatson to call home together with her his or her housekeeper. When she discovered the simple truth, Edith quarreled violently together with her husband and suggested that Hoatson and in addition the baby should leave; Hubert threatened to leave Edith if she disowned your little one and it is mother. Hoatson remained together with them if you become a housekeeper and secretary and became pregnant by Hubert again 13 years later. Edith again adopted Hoatson's child.

Edith nesbit's children were Paul Bland (1880-1940), to whom The Railway Children was dedicated; Iris Bland (1881-1950s); Fabian Bland (1885-1900); Rosamund Bland (1886-?), to whom The Book of Dragons was dedicated; and John Bland (1899 -?) to whom Your Own Home of Arden was dedicated. Her son Fabian died aged 15 looking for a tonsil operation, and Edith nesbit dedicated a a number of books to him: Five Children And It as well as its sequels, along with Story you get with the Treasure Seekers and also it sequels. Edith nesbit's daughter Rosamund collaborated together with her located on the book Cat Tales. E. Nesbit's grave in St Mary involved in the Marsh's churchyard bears a wooden grave marker put together by her second husband, Thomas Terry Tucker. May memorial plaque to her included in the church.

Edith nesbit must have been a follower of the particular utopian socialist William Morris and she and her husband Hubert were quite a few founders of this game Fabian Society in 1884. Their son Fabian was named as soon as the society. They also jointly edited the Society's journal Today; Hoatson was the Society's assistant secretary. Edith nesbit and Bland also dallied briefly as a result of the Social Democratic Federation, but rejected it as too radical. Edith nesbit was a full of life lecturer and prolific writer on socialism usually in the 1880s. Edith nesbit also wrote along with her husband as "Fabian Bland", though this activity dwindled as her success when you're a children's author grew. Edith nesbit lived from 1899 to 1920 in Well Hall House, Eltham, Kent (now in south-east Greater London), which appears in fictional guise in a number of of her books, especially The Red House. She and her husband entertained a large circle of friends, colleagues and admirers at their grand "Well Hall House".

On 20 February 1917, some a couple of years after Bland died, Edith nesbit married Thomas "the Skipper" Tucker. They were married in Woolwich, where exactly he must have been a ship's engineer found on the Woolwich Ferry. She had been a guest speaker at the London School of Economics, which in fact had been founded by other Fabian Society members.

In the direction of end of her life she moved as opposed to a house called "Crowlink" in Friston, East Sussex, and soon after to "The Long Boat" at Jesson, St Mary's Bay, New Romney, East Kent where, suffering from lung cancer, she died in 1924 and was buried active in the churchyard of St Mary belonging to the Marsh. Her husband Thomas died while at the same address on 17 May 1935. Edith's son, Paul Bland, was the executor's of Thomas Tucker's will. Edith nesbit published approximately 40 books to understand all the, including novels, collections of stories and picture books. Collaborating with other people, she published almost any amount of more.

As outlined by her biographer Julia Briggs, Edith nesbit was "the very first modern writer for children": "(Edith nesbit) helped to turnaround for the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Carroll, MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in avoiding their secondary worlds to qualify for the tough truths for a winner from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels." Briggs also credits Edith nesbit with having invented the children's adventure story. Noël Coward must have been a great admirer of hers and, held in a letter a great biographer Noel Streatfeild, wrote "she had an economy of phrase, as well as an unparalleled talent for evoking hot summer days in to the English countryside."

Among Edith nesbit's best-known books include things like Story side of the Treasure Seekers (1898) and in addition the Wouldbegoods (1899), which both recount stories relating to the Bastables, a middle class family that will have fallen on relatively hard times. The Railway Children happens to be extremely well known. Her children's writing also included numerous plays and collections of verse.

She created a forward thinking oeuvre that combined realistic, contemporary children in real-world settings with magical objects - what would now be classed as contemporary fantasy - and adventures and quite often travel to fantastic worlds. In to do so, she would have been a direct or indirect influence on many subsequent writers, including P. L. Travers (author of Mary Poppins), Edward Eager, Diana Wynne Jones and J. K. Rowling. C. S. Lewis wrote of her influence on his Narnia series and mentions the Bastable children in The Magician's Nephew. Michael Moorcock would go on to write a series of steampunk novels with an adult Oswald Bastable (of this game Treasure Seekers) given that the lead character. Edith nesbit also wrote for adults, including eleven novels, short stories and four collections of horror stories

The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit AudioBook Unabridged