{"product_id":"9786059285988","title":"The Children of the Castle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Hast thou seen that lordly castle, \u003cbr\u003eThat castle by the sea? \u003cbr\u003eGolden and red above it \u003cbr\u003eThe clouds float gorgeously.\"  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDo you remember Gratian—Gratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at the old farmhouse up among the moors, where these strange beautiful sisters used to meet? Do you remember how full of fancies and stories Gratian's little head was, and how sometimes he put them into words to please Fergus, the lame child he loved so much?  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe story I am now going to tell you is one of these. I think it was their favourite one. I can not say that it is in the very words in which Gratian used to tell it, for it was not till long, long after those boyish days that it came to be written down. But all the same it is his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Louisa Molesworth, née Stewart (1839 – 1921) was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth. Her first novels, for adult readers, Lover and Husband (1869) to Cicely (1874), appeared under the pseudonym of Ennis Graham.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe was born in Rotterdam, a daughter of Charles Augustus Stewart (1809–1873) who later became a rich merchant in Manchester and his wife Agnes Janet Wilson (1810–1883). Mary had three brothers and two sisters. She was educated in Great Britain and Switzerland: much of her girlhood was spent in Manchester. In 1861 she married Major R. Molesworth, nephew of Viscount Molesworth; they legally separated in 1879.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, such as Tell Me a Story (1875), Carrots (1876), The Cuckoo Clock (1877), The Tapestry Room (1879), and A Christmas Child (1880). She has been called \"the Jane Austen of the nursery,\" while The Carved Lions (1895) \"is probably her masterpiece.\" In the judgement of Roger Lancelyn Green:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Louisa Molesworth typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Brontes, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they also had a good deal of moral instruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe girls reading Molesworth would grow up to be mothers; thus, the books emphasized Victorian notions of duty and self-sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eTypical of the time, her young child characters often use a lisping style, and words may be misspelt to represent children's speech—\"jography\" for geography, for instance.\u003cbr\u003eShe took an interest in supernatural fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1888, she published a collection of supernatural tales under the title Four Ghost Stories, and in 1896 a similar collection of six tales under the title Uncanny Stories. In addition to those, her volume Studies and Stories includes a ghost story entitled \"Old Gervais\" and her Summer Stories for Boys and Girls includes \"Not exactly a ghost story.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eA new edition of The Cuckoo Clock was published in 1914.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"eKitap Projesi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140778803440,"sku":"9786059285988","price":2.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9786059285988_p0.jpg?v=1763716313","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9786059285988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}