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Joan Aiken
Hardcover | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 4.08 | 17630 Users | 1197 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
| ISBN: | 0385327900 (ISBN13: 9780385327909) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Wolves Chronicles #1 |
| Setting: | England |
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Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease. With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?Details Based On Books The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles #1)
| Title | : | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles #1) |
| Author | : | Joan Aiken |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 181 pages |
| Published | : | November 14th 2000 by Delacorte Press (first published August 6th 1962) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Fantasy. Fiction. Young Adult. Classics. Middle Grade. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 17630 Users | 1197 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles #1)
Those of us who grew up with an affinity for Victorian books, it might have started here, in Joan Aiken's 1962 classic Gothic / Dickensian love note, with its pitch perfect wicked governesses and wretched orphanages and aptronyms and moors and girls who are described as "hoydens," and secret passages, and real dungeons, and all these wolves. When we hit our teens and started reading stuff like Dickens and Wuthering Heights, it felt familiar to us; we'd already been indoctrinated into the rulesI'm still in two minds about this book. I enjoyed it very much, this was the first Aiken I have read and realise that I should have read far more since she's such an established and well-received children's author. The first half of the novel, set in Willoughby Hall is wonderful. The story is set in an alternate Victorian England. This is an England hoarded with wolves that have migrated through mainland Europe from Russia through a pre-Eurotunnel undersea excavation. The story reads like a
This book has it all kidnapping, secret passages, shipwrecks, orphans, violent death, fraud, a stolen inheritance, and best of all wolves!
Great exciting adventure story, written in a quaint old-fashioned way, I reckon it'd suit ages 10+ due to locking naughty kids in dungeons/ parents going missing etc. Gripping and fun, no wonder it's a classic.
I approached this book with a little apprehension as I have had past experience of re-reading old childhood favourites and feeling letdown, but there was no problem with this novel, set in an alternative 1832 where the monarch is James III (implying that the House of Hanover never came to the throne) and wolves have entered England during a bad winter by crossing the Channel Tunnel (not opened in our reality until 1994).Unlike the children's books of today - this was first published in the early
Thoroughly enjoyable read. The 'villainess' rates among the worst (or should that be one of the 'best'? Oh well, I meant the meanest) ones I've come across in children's literature.
What a grand adventure! I never read this as a kid, but it sounded fun, so I jumped at the chance to read it (and listen to the audiobook, beautifully narrated by the authors daughter, Lizza Aiken) with the Retro Reads group.A lovely, grand, old-fashioned adventure with brave and resilient orphans, evil governesses, a big country house with secret passages, wolves hunting through the snowy night - what fun! My son just graduated from college, but when he was young he read several Lemony Snicket
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