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''The Enchanted Castle'' is a children's fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit first published in 1907. ==Plot summary== The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Gerald, James and Kathleen, who discover it while exploring during the school holidays. The lake, groves and marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a fairy-tale setting, and then in the middle of the maze in the rose garden they find a sleeping fairy-tale princess. The "princess" tells them that the castle is full of magic, and they almost believe her. She shows them the treasures of the castle, including a magic ring she says is a ring of invisibility, but when it actually turns her invisible she panics and admits that she is the housekeeper's niece, Mabel, and was just play-acting. The children soon discover that the ring has other magical powers.〔Stephen Prickett, ''Victorian Fantasy'' p 233 ISBN 0-253-17461-9〕 ''The Enchanted Castle'' was written for both children and adults. It combines descriptions of the imaginative play of children, reminiscent of ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', with a magic more muted than in her major fantasies such as ''The Story of the Amulet''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Enchanted Castle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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