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The sequel to Howl's Moving Castle
When Charmain Baker agreed to look after her great-uncle's house, she thought she was getting blissful, parent-free time to read. She didn't realize that the house bent space and time, and she did not expect to become responsible for an extremely magical stray dog and a muddled young apprentice wizard. Now, somehow, she's been targeted by a terrifying creature called a lubbock, too, and become central to the king's urgent search for the fabled Elfgift that will save the country. The king is so desperate to find the Elfgift, he's called in an intimidating sorceress named Sophie to help. And where Sophie is, the great Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer won't be far behind. How did respectable Charmain end up in such a mess, and how will she get herself out of it?
Longtime fans and new readers alike will revel in Jones's self-assured return to the realm she charted in Howl's Moving Castle, a riff on English and German fairytales, and its Arabian Nights-themed sequel, Castle in the Air. When bookish, utterly selfish Charmain leaves home to care for her ailing great-uncle's magical house, she surprises herself by discovering her own hidden talents-and ends up helping save the kingdom of High Norland from the fearsome Lubbock. Brought up by her doting parents to be utterly "respectable" (which in her case translates to being astonishingly useless), Charmain is an unlikely heroine. Yet she easily holds center stage, even when the flamboyant Wizard Howl (of Moving Castle fame) appears midway through the novel. Beguiling enough on their own, Charmain's big and small adventures (bickering with the boy who comes to stay; attempting housework with hilarious results; mediating the disputes of the disgruntled tiny blue men who work behind the scenes) gain an added urgency thanks to the lurking menace of the Lubbock, who is easily among the scariest villains Jones has ever created. A tale to luxuriate in. Ages 12-up. (June)
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House of Many Ways
House of Many Ways (Howl's Moving Castle, #3), Diana Wynne Jones
House of Many Ways is a young adult fantasy novel written by Diana Wynne Jones.
The story is set in the same world as Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Air. Charmain Baker has led a respectable, and relaxing sheltered life.
She has spent her days with her nose in a book, never learning how to do even the smallest household chores. When she suddenly ends up looking after the tiny cottage of her ill Great-Uncle William she seems happy for the adventure, but the easy task of house-sitting is complicated by the fact that Great-Uncle William is also the Royal Wizard Norland and his magical house bends space and time.
Though she is supposed to clean up the mess William has left the house in, Charmain knows next to nothing about magic, and yet she seems to work it in the most unexpected way.
The house's single door can lead to almost any place - from other rooms like the kitchen, to faraway places like the Royal Palace, and even other time periods.
In her first days in the magical house she ends up looking after a magical stray dog named Waif, encounters a horrible lubbock, has to share a roof with a confused young apprentice wizard named Peter, tries to work some spells from William's library, and deals with a clan of small blue creatures called Kobolds.
When Charmain is caught up in an intense royal search to remedy the kingdom's financial troubles, she encounters Sophie Pendragon, her son Morgan, a beautiful child named Twinkle, and their fire demon Calcifer.
One of the messes Twinkle gets Charmain into results in Twinkle climbing onto the roof of the Royal Mansion. She is soon involved in curing the kingdom of its ills and rediscovering the long-lost Elfgift.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز Ù‡Ùدهم ماه نوامبر سال 2012میلادی
عنوان: خانه ÛŒ هزار تو: جلد سوم از قلعه متØرک هاول؛ نوشته: دایانا واین جونز؛ مترجم: شراره صدیق؛ مشخصات نشر تهران، کتابسرای تندیس، 1390ØŒ در 248ص، شابک 9786001820328Ø› موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان امریکایی - سده 21Ù…
شارمین بیکرد؛ در دردسر بزرگی اÙتاده است؛ نخست مراقبت از کلیه ÛŒ Ú©ÙˆÚ†Ú© «عمو ویلیام»، کار ساده ای به نظر میرسید؛ «عمو ویلیام»، جادوگر سطلنتی «نورلند»، در خانه ای زندگی میکرد، Ú©Ù‡ در آنجا، زمان، Ùˆ مکان، معنی نداشت؛ درب آن خانه، به صدها مکان مختلÙØŒ باز میشود، اتاق خوابها، آشپرخانه، غارهای زیر کوهستان، ... ؛جتی به گذشته! «شارمین»، برای یاÙتن٠پاسخ معمای سلطنتی، با جادوگری به نام «سوÙی»، دیدار میکند؛ Ùˆ ...Ø›
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 23/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
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