The Magic City (Illustrated) (Annotated)

In The Magic City (Illustrated), Edith Nesbit transforms the nursery, drawing room, and household odds-and-ends into an architecture of enchantment. Philip, lonely and displaced after changes in his family life, builds elaborate cities from toys, books, chessmen, and bric-a-brac—only to find himself entering a living realm governed by prophecy, trial, and moral testing. Nesbit's prose combines bri...