Elena Balbusso Boeken

Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. the novel is modeled after the day's popular romances and Gothic thrillers, which it then proceeds to ridicule. The heroine is Catherine Morland, who encounters upper-crust society at Bath, falls in love, and becomes targeted by misinformed fortune-seekers. After moving to Northanger Abbey, her imagination goes to work and dreams up mysteries that lead to various social disasters.

When a young girl rescues her nutcracker from an attack by mice, the nutcracker becomes a prince and takes her to his magnificent castle.

Quando avevo quattro anni, avevo quattro nonni, due nonni di città e due nonni di campagna... Incomincia così questo libro che parla di un nonno straordinario e di un ciliegio, dell'oca Alfonsina e di suo marito Oreste, della nonna Teodolinda e delle sue "cose" morbide; e di un bambino, che non dimentica il nonno "matto" che si arrampicava sugli alberi e che lo ha reso tante volte felice. Età di lettura: dai 9 anni.