The Magic City
by Edith Nesbit & Harold Robert Millar (Illustrator)
- First published: Date unknown
- Language: English
"The Magic City" by E. Nesbit is a children's book published in 1910. When Philip builds a giant model city from household objects to cope with his sister's absence, he discovers himself magically transported inside his own creation. Joined reluctantly by his new stepsister Lucy, Philip must complete seven great deeds to prove himself the prophesied Deliverer rather than the Destroyer, navigating a world populated by toy soldiers, Mr. Noah, and mysterious creatures. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires.
Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the title, “Magic” in the description, and “Magic” in the edition title.
- “magic”· via Project Gutenberg
- “Magic”· in title
- “Magic”· in description
- “Magic”· in edition title
Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
Read & download
Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.
- EPUB (opens in a new tab)
- HTML (opens in a new tab)
- Plain text (opens in a new tab)
- Landing page (opens in a new tab)
Project Gutenberg ebook; public domain in the USA. Public domain in the USA.
marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.
Buy or borrow
No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.
Editions
One edition cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition. | 2007-02-16 | Project Gutenberg | English | — | Public domain (USA) |
Subjects
Identifiers & provenance
How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.
Identifiers
- Project Gutenberg
Cataloged from
- Project Gutenbergprimary20606 (opens in a new tab)
Found via
Cataloging notes
- Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
- Catalog id
- project-gutenberg:20606
- Edition coverage
- Project gutenberg electronic edition
- Retrieved











