Howl's moving castle folio society6/4/2023 It’s far from the brilliance and originality of some of her earlier books, although it does have its fans, and features an extremely unpleasant character that actually gave me nightmares and that I have no desire to see in illustrated form. House of Many Ways was published only many years later, as a sort of afterthought, and I personally find it one of Jones’s weaker works. Castle in the Air followed quite soon, but it’s more of a companion book than a sequel. But unless Folio is planning to publish the complete works of DWJ (a fantastic idea that is unlikely to come to pass), I would venture to say there are much better choices for a third, fourth, fifth or even a dozen or more further Folio editions.īefore you shout “series completion!” please note that Howl’s Moving Castle was never conceived as the first book of a trilogy. We are a series-obsessed culture, and marketers love this because they can thereby sell many books in the place of one. House of Many Ways, which has been marketed as the third book in the “trilogy” that started with Howl’s Moving Castle, would seem to be the obvious choice. Now that they’ve published two titles by Diana Wynne Jones (see my post on the latest, Castle in the Air), the Folio Society has surely seen the wisdom of producing more.
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