Knock three times!.

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Marion St. John Webb: Knock three times!. (1973, Tom Stacey)

English language

Published 1973 by Tom Stacey.

ISBN:
978-0-85468-357-4
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OCLC Number:
221411932

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4 stars (1 review)

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To Hell with Narnia, go to The Possible World

4 stars

Sometime around 1971, I saw the dramatised version of "Knock Three Times!" on TV in Australia. It left a big impression on my pre-teen self, but I didn't get around to reading the 1917 book it was based on until now. I think it's a bit of a lost classic, with enough originality and verve to be on the same shelf as "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Wizard of Oz".

Instead of a rabbit hole, wardrobe, or house-launching tornado, the magical land here is accessed via a door in a particular tree in the wood. After (of course) knocking three times, we are granted access to "The Possible World". Our "Impossible" dimension is seen as tainted, and it serves as a sort of dumping ground for evil creatures exiled from the fantasy land to keep it pure. The nomenclature references the concept of "the best of all possible worlds", although …