The Enchanted Castle

Brothers Gerald and Jimmy and their sister Kathleen are seeking adventure: a schoolmate told Gerald that once, somewhere along Salisbury Road, his father had discovered a cave that led him to an enchanted castle. After much wandering, the children accidentally find the cave's entrance, and this impervious and somewhat frightening passage leads them to a magical place: a park containing a castle and a labyrinth. At the center of the labyrinth, the children find a sleeping princess who, in turn, leads them to a secret room in the castle. The castle and the princess conceal mysteries and puzzles, and strange objects and ornaments magically appear in the secret room, one of which will spark the most magical adventure ever. A novel suitable for all ages, which will surprise you with its brilliance and uniqueness. We won't reveal anything else, because, as the author would have said, "it's not by any means."

The first Italian edition of a great classic of English literature.

The Author

Edith Nesbit (15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English novelist and poet. Many of her children's novels were adapted for film and television. She was a writer of boundless imagination and a skilled weaver of genres and narrative styles, exerting a huge influence on some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, P.L. Travers, Diana Wynne Jones, and J.K. Rowling. Magic, adventure, mystery, love, spirituality, and mysticism—her novels have it all. According to one of her biographers, Julia Briggs, Nesbit was the "first modern writer for children," the mother of the fantasy adventure novel as we know it today. The novels for which she is still remembered today are Five Children and the Thing (1902), the first novel of a very famous trilogy, The Railway Children (1906) and The Enchanted Castle (1907).