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The Magic World

by: E. Nesbit

Publication date: 2009-03-31

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: librivox, audiobook, children, short stories, animals, magic

Language: English

LibriVox recording of The Magic World, by E. Nesbit. Read by Ruth Golding.

Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of stories for children of all ages.

The Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E. Nesbit. It was first published in book form in 1912 by Macmillan and Co. Ltd., with illustrations by H. R. Millar and Gerald Spencer Pryse. The stories, previously printed in magazines (like Blackie's Children's Annual), are typical of Nesbit's arch, ironic, clever fantasies for children. (Summary by Wikipedia and Ruth Golding)

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Addeddate: 2009-03-31 23:30:43

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Reviewer: Dana Denney - - December 7, 2023
Subject: grrrrrreat!

This is such a fantastic collection of unique and witty fairy tales and read so well!!! I wish I had found them when my kids were little or had access to them when I was little

Reviewer: re-scorpio - - October 11, 2022
Subject: Lovely Stories

Thank you Ruth Golding I really enjoyed listening to you reading.

Reviewer: Maja Lange - - January 10, 2017
Subject: Thank you, Ruth Golding

That was absolutely wonderful.

Reviewer: inkbutterfly - - April 15, 2009
Subject: Great book of short stories, great reading preformance

Edith Nesbit had a great imagination. Her fantasy stories are full of magic that appear in day-to-day situations. Sure to enchant children and make they dream it can happen to them too. From becoming a cat (in The Cat-hood of Maurice), finding a spy-glass that make make everything bigger (in The Mixed-Mine), the princess that gets the help of a hedge-pig in recovering her kingdom (The Princess and the Hedge-pig), a glass cat that saves a boy's home (in The White Cat), to other tales in this book, there are stories for both boys and girls. A timeless classic.

The reader (Ruth Golding) performance is as good as professional recordings created in a studio (no background noises and her reading is flawless). She has many fun voices and a few special effects that brings the stories to life.

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