The Magic World (Golden Deer Classics) Audiobook by Edith Nesbit
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Title: The Magic World (Golden Deer Classics)
Author: Edith Nesbit
Narrator: Janet Paulson
Format: Abridged
Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-24-17
Publisher: Oregan Publishing
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 5-7
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Members Reviews:
"High Quality Paperback" -- Not so much
The text is brilliant, as always with Edith Nisbet. The reason for the three-star rating is its production values as a physical book.
This is a perfect-bound print-on-demand book, on standard US letter-size paper, of the Project Gutenberg e-text of the 1924 McMillan UK edition. Right down to the ragged-right monospaced type and the bracketed text in place of the missing illustrations. Among the publisher's few additions was to automatically paginate the text: The 140 clearly numbered pages in a book with a table of illustrations referring to page numbers over 250 -- but no illustrations to be found -- was collectively my first clue to what I was actually looking at. (Sadly, even this appears to have been done by someone with no prior experience in desktop publishing: the last page of each story is centered vertically on the page, with results such as page 51: a line and a half of text in the middle of an otherwise blank page, and a page number centered at the bottom.)
None of which is terrible, but you should know what you're getting. With access to a good duplex laser printer and a local copy shop that does binding, you can print the Gutenberg text and have it perfect-bound yourself for roughly the same price. With perhaps an extra hour of effort, your version could also have the illustrations. Another hour and under $10 more in materials, and you could replicate the 1924 edition's pagination as well.
If I Could Give This Book 10,000 Stars -- I Would! :)
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" -- but this turns out to be a completely different book).
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".
