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The Box of Delights: Or When the Wolves Were Running
301 pp.
| NYRB |
October, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-1-59017-251-3$17.95 New ed. (1935, Macmillan)
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4-6
From the moment Kay steps onto the train home from school, his Christmas holiday grows progressively stranger. "The Wolves are Running," an "old bright-eyed man" tells Kay, then entrusts him with a mysterious box. Magic, kidnapping, time travel, and shape-shifting ensue, all set against a British winter. Fans of C. S. Lewis and Susan Cooper might give this newly edited edition a try.