THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE
Book ID/图书代码： 02330004B04541
English Summary/英文概要： 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?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 威利山庄座落在英国北部的荒原上，附近常有灰狼出没，当地居民早已习以为常。山庄的主人叫做威利，因为要带病弱的太太出去旅行，因此拜托远亲史莱卡小姐和波妮的唐姊西维亚来陪办他们的女儿波妮。但是史莱卡小姐却别有用心，她想尽办法虐待波妮和西维亚，遣散所有的佣人，打算把所有家产据为己有，还把波妮和西维亚送到孤儿院。
孤儿院是个恐怖的地方，波妮和西维亚被迫做许多劳力，这对平常养尊处优的她们无疑是个打击，但她们始终没有放弃希望，互相扶持鼓励，终于被朋友赛门救出，抵达伦敦，也找到波妮父亲的律师葛瑞普，返回家园，讨回公道。后来波妮的父母回到家，一家人回复幸福的生活。
Awards/获奖情况："This year can boast one genuine small masterpiece. . . . The Wolves of Willoughby Chase . . . is almost a copybook lesson in those virtues that a classic children’s book must possess: charm, a style of its own, the skill and authority to create a small world without writing down to small readers."---Time Magazine
"It’s a funny book. The language is so fantastically right."---School Library Journal
Joan Aiken is a marvel -- Philip Pullman
She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew -- Amanda Craig ― The Times
Dickensian in flavour ... rich in atmosphere and intrigue -- Julia Eccleshare ― Guardian
A genuine small masterpiece -- Time
Thrilling tale...stuffed with atmosphere, adventure, memorable characters and luxuriant Gothic prose. Any child who discovers it will fall in love, not only with Aiken’s writing, but with reading... The Wolves sequence has inspired writers from Philip Pullman to Cathryn Constable... Aiken was a genius, and her reissue deserves howls of delight -- Amanda Craig ― The Times
The Wolves Chronicles vary in length from less than 150 pages to more than 250 pages.[5] Here the novels are listed in narrative order.
Main series
• The Whispering Mountain (Jonathan Cape, 1968), a prequel to the series
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Jonathan Cape, 1962)[9]
• Black Hearts in Battersea (1964)
• Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966)
• The Stolen Lake (1981)
• Limbo Lodge (1999); U.S. title, Dangerous Games
• The Cuckoo Tree (1971)
• Dido and Pa (1986)
• Is (1992); U.S. title, Is Underground
• Cold Shoulder Road (1995)
• Midwinter Nightingale (2003)
• The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005)
About the Author/作者介绍： Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924. She was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken; her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, is also a novelist. Before joining the ’family business’ herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children’s novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960.
Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Amanda Craig, writing in The Times, said, ’She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew.’ Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in 1962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain.
Joan Aiken was decorated with an MBE for her services to children’s books. She died in 2004.
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