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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 |
Joan Aiken
Hardcover | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 4.08 | 17630 Users | 1197 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles #1) |
| Author | : | Joan Aiken |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First 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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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?
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Ratings: 4.08 From 17630 Users | 1197 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles #1)
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.3.5 stars. The story takes place in a 1832 that didnt exist, when a Channel Tunnel connecting Dover to Calais entices many wolves to move into Britain.A poor, young girl, Sylvia, is brought to live with her rich relatives, and immediately things go wrong. The governess hired to teach Bonnie and Sylvia decides to take advantage of her employers absence, and takes over the place, sacks the servants and generally is a totally horrid woman. The story concerns how the girls manage to deal with the
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is best read when young, or by those with the ability to tap into their inner girl.I enjoyed the evil impostors who gleefully inflict child abuse. 'Wolves' is best read by kids who love to feel a bit of self-pity and delicious horror.Bonnie is a bit of a simpering thing and there are lots of mentions of dresses and lace. I didn't care about that. My eyes tend to glaze over fripperies in real life too. (It feels like I'm the only person alive who doesn't notice if
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 rules
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
Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles are wildly inventive fantasies, set in an alternate England where the Stuarts remained on the throne, making the Hanoverians the rebels and conspirators, and where wolves still roam even in London. There are eleven of them in all (and won't be any more, since Aiken sadly died in January 2004), and I think of them in sets of two or three.The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Black Hearts in Battersea introduce many of the main characters in the series, chiefly Simon,
Cousins Bonnie and Sylvia Green find themselves in danger when Bonnie's parents must leave the country, entrusting the girls to the care of their wicked governess, Miss Slighcarp. But whether they are confronting the eponymous wolves of Willoughby Chase or enduring the drudgery of a charity school, our two young heroines never lose sight of their goal: to expose the machinations of their enemy, and regain their home...The first in what is sometimes called the Wolves Chronicles, a
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