- Magic, Fiction, Children's stories, Juvenile fiction
When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan, comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians!
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Classical in form, resolved, plot-driven and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- John Bellairs
- First published
- November 1, 2000
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Octopus Yayinevi, BWI Bound, Yearling
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- Polish, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9789877385083
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“Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.”
<b><a href="http://bellairsia.com">John Bellairs</a></b> (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic <i>The House with a Clock in its Walls</i> 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel <i>The Face in the Frost</i> (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href="http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>. After 1971, he took up wr
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