They make believe that it is enchanted, and wake a young girl sleeping there, who they pretend is a princess. As for the summary: The Enchanted Castle is a fantasy book by Edith Nesbit about three children, who, while playing in the forest, discover a secret passageway into the garden of a castle. That can make the story difficult to follow, leaving you (or at least me, anyway) almost unable to appreciate it. (Death By Description) and it can go on for a dozen pages at a time detailing a single short event. The storyline is great and the characters are interesting, but the whole book is D.B.D. 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.Before I start, I would like to clarify that although I DID give this book 3 stars, I probably would have given it more if it had been written in a slightly less complex manner. The Enchanted Castle was written for both children and adults. The children soon discover that the ring has other magical powers. She shows them the treasures of the castle, including a 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 "princess" tells them that the castle is full of magic, and they almost believe her.
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 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 Enchanted Castle is a children's fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit.
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