Knitting in fiction
Discover the best fiction books featuring knitting! Explore heartwarming and inspiring novels where knitting plays a key role in the story. Perfect for book lovers and knitting enthusiasts alike.
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Ella and the Panther's Quest
by Lisa Anne Nisula
After a terrible day, Ella Peterson goes to the library to escape in a book. Instead she literally ends up in another world after being taken through an enchanted mirror by a footstool. On the other side, she finds a panther trapped in a cage. He is waiting for a hero to free him and help him reach the cursed castle he can see through the prison window. Ella is taken home and the first opportunity, but, unable to ignore the panther's sad eyes, Ella packs up her knitting bag with what she thinks she'll need for a journey in a strange land, and goes back through the mirror to find a way to free the panther and help him on his quest.
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Fantasy Kingdom Xxi
by Lisa Anne Nisula
It all started when Charles unwrapped the hand knit sweater his aunt got him for his thirteenth birthday. He was much more interested in the copy of Fantasy Kingdom XXI video game his parents gave him. He even convinced him mom to let him start playing right away. And that's when he met Bobble the sprite and learns the sweater is enchanted, gets kidnapped by a giant, and brought to another world like those in his favorite video games. He is drawn into a quest to rescue a princess, only to find King Regulous's castle, and his way home, have been overrun by the enemy. With Bobble, Phichorian the bard, Princess Melissina, and Sir Amertious of the King's Guard, he travels through the new world, meeting a hermit, dragons and scholars, searching for a way to free the castle and get home.
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They Came to Baghdad
by Agatha Christie
Victoria is pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world.
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves Sydney Carton's sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The book is perhaps best known for its opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and for Carton's last speech, in which he says of his replacing Darnay in a prison cell, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
In New England during the Civil War, four sisters experience joys and hardships together.