Charmed Life
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN-13
- 9780008718879
- Type
- novel
About this book
Charmed Life opened Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci series in 1977, running 288 pages as the book that introduces her multiverse of magical-enchanter bureaucracy.
Key facts about Charmed Life
Diana Wynne Jones wrote Charmed Life, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1977. The book has 288 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780008718879 to find the main one.
Charmed Life is book 1 of 7 in the Chrestomanci series. The series has 7 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Diana Wynne Jones writes The Dalemark Quartet and Howl's Moving Castle as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, The Islands of Chaldea is the latest published Diana Wynne Jones book on file, from 2014.
About Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones was a British author who spent over four decades writing some of the most inventive fantasy fiction published for young readers, prized as much by adults as by children for prose that was witty, structurally daring, and never condescending. See every Diana Wynne Jones book in order.
Its place in Chrestomanci
Charmed Life is book 1 in the Chrestomanci series. It is followed by The Magicians of Caprona. See the full Chrestomanci reading order.
Chrestomanci is Diana Wynne Jones's longest-running series, built around a deceptively simple idea: in a multiverse of parallel worlds where magic works, someone with nine lives has to be appointed as a kind of government enchanter, keeping ordinary witches and wizards from causing catastrophes across worlds that don't all know magic is real. That role belongs to the elegant, maddeningly evasive Christopher Chant, who appears in every book but is rarely the narrator -- instead, each novel follows a different…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008718879