| 翻訳と辞書 |
| The Land of Stories ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
The Land of Stories
''The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell'' is a children's fiction novel written by actor and singer Chris Colfer. It was released on July 17, 2012, and is the first in ''The Land of Stories'' series.
''The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell'' is described by Colfer as a "modern day fairy tale," following twins Alex and Conner Bailey as they fall from the real world into a world full of fairy tales they have only ever read about before. But after run-ins with trolls, goblins, wolves, and witches, getting home might be more difficult than they previously thought.
==Plot==
Conner and Alex Bailey are twins, and after their father died they live in a rental house. They are accidentally teleported into the Land of Stories by their Grandma's book, which was cherished throughout their childhood and given to them. They meet characters including, but not limited to, Froggy (a man turned into a frog, who is actually the long-lost Prince Charlie Charming), the Witch from Hansel and Gretel (who is tricked into becoming a vegetarian), Snow White, Sleeping Beauty (who is a courageous young woman intent on restoring her sleepy kingdom into its former glory), Cinderella (who is pregnant with King Charming's baby girl, later named Hope), Sir Lampton (who helped them get Cinderella's shoe), the three Charming brothers, the Sea Foam (spirit of the Little Mermaid), The Fairy Council, Trix (a fairy on trial who Conner saves), Trollbella (the princess of the trolls, who frees the Baileys in exchange for a kiss from Conner), The Huntress (mute daughter of the Huntsman), Red Riding Hood (elected queen of the Red Riding Hood Kingdom), Jack, and Goldilocks (who is constantly on the run for stealing from kingdoms). It is revealed that both Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood were and are in love with Jack, but when they were young Red wrote a note to Goldilocks, who, believing it was Jack, waited for him until she got tired and slept at the bears' house. Jack tells her that he grew up illiterate, and they are in love. They attempt to make the Wishing Spell that will get them back home, thus having to sneak into castles and explore the whole land, and almost succeed. The book reaches its climax when Alex, Conner, the Evil Queen, the Huntress, Goldilocks, Jack, Queen Red Riding Hood, and the Big Bad Wolf Pack (descendants of the Big Bad Wolf who agreed to kidnap the twins in exchange for Red) as well as Red's army, meet at a hidden palace in the Sleeping Kingdom. Goldilocks and the Huntress battle until Jack fires a cannonball at the Huntress and she is killed. This book also tells the story of Evly, The Evil Queen and her lover Mira. Evly stole the Wishing Spell to free her lover Mira from the magic mirror, but he dies in her arms and they are both swallowed up by the mirror. Alex and Conner find themselves trapped in the fairy world, until they learn that their grandmother is the Fairy Godmother, who is capable of making portals between the Otherworld and the Fairy World, and the journal written by a man who had successfully completed the Wishing Spell years before when he fell in love with a woman on Earth belonged to their father. Therefore, Alex is part fairy. Alex and Conner get back to their mother in the other world in the end.
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 Land of Stories」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|