The Twilight of Magic by Hugh Lofting
"The Twilight of Magic" was written in 1930 by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), telling about the Middle Ages, when adults and children alike still believed in magic. The tale is full of castles, kings, cavalcades of knights and princesses. The main characters Giles and Anne are nine-year-old twins and the children of a prosperous wagon-wright who is inexplicably in debt. They decide to seek help from Agnes the Applewoman, even though most of the townsfolk think she is an evil witch because she has cats and psychic powers...
Table of content
Book I
Chapter 4 The hut by the river
Chapter 6 The Whispering Shell
Chapter 7 Michael the Blind Man
Chapter 8 Johannes the Philosopher
Chapter 10 The man who knew everyone
Chapter 12 The supper at the Golden Mitre
Chapter 15 The King listens to the shell
Chapter 16 Midnight, the black mare
Chapter 17 The flight to the capital
Book II
Chapter 2 The friendship that does not betray
Chapter 5 The Princess Sophronia
Chapter 6 The eve of the wedding
Chapter 10 The pocket of the tunic
Chapter 12 The Abbess of Saint Bridget’s
Chapter 13 The watchers on the terrace