The Chess Set in the Mirror (The Nautilus Series)
by Massimo Bontempelli
Whimsical Italian fantasy for children, originally published in 1922.
Alone in a room with nothing but an old mirror and a chess set, a young boy anticipates a boring afternoon. But like Alice just before she fell down the rabbit hole—and wound up in Wonderland—this boy is about to embark on a marvelous adventure. Gazing at the mirror, he discovers that the chess pieces (the reflections, not the real ones) are alive! When the White King invites him into the world on the other side, the excitement begins. There, all the rules of the real world are reversed. There, you can have a perfectly reasonable conversation with a perfectly unreasonable chess piece. There, you can meet anyone who's ever looked into the mirror (even a hundred years ago). This bewildering experience leads to some odd questions: What goes on inside a mirror when no one is looking at it? What if the reflected world is more real than the one where we live? And speaking of our world, how will our hero get back to this side of the mirror?
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Mirrors, Chess, Fiction, Children's fiction, Chess, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction| Edition | Availability |
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The Chess Set in the Mirror (The Nautilus Series)
April 30, 2007, Paul Dry Books
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in English
1589880315 9781589880313
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