Famous Five X 21 Series Books Box Set Pack Collection - Enid Blyton Classic Text

Really nice collection - nice prints

Wow, I wasnt expecting these books to be brand new but they are! Over the moon. Haven't took the plastic wrap off as they're an Xmas gift but everything looks to be as it should. Made up!! X

We purchased the set of books for our grandson who loves them very much. Fantastic value for money highly recommended. Thank you.

I read all of the Famous Five books as a kid (my mum had kept a complete set of original hardbacks from her own childhood) and I remember the 80’s TV series well. Whilst I completely understand why new editions of Blyton’s stories are being edited to reflect modern language and culture, I am so glad that I took the opportunity to buy this set before the original versions became obsolete. It has been a joy to re-read them as they were, as funny and outdated as they may seem to others. A complete trip back in time.

With the price at something like 80% off I decided to move this from its long stay on my saved list to my basket. I loved reading (and watching) the Famous Five series when I was a kid. Reading them now is very nostalgic to me. The description says that it is “classic text”, and this is true in that the Woke Brigade have not got their hands on it. Two characters (an Aunt and a member of the gang) keep their names, whereas in Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway tree the delicate flowers from that cult have changed similar names so as not to “offend”. The only changes to the text I have noticed is simply converting the money mentioned from pre-decimalisation to post-decimalisation. That’s no big deal. As for the physical product itself. All 21 Famous a five novels in one stiff cardboard case, all arrived in good condition. Recommend for all Enid Blyton/Famous Five fans.

I was bought various of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books when a child and I still enjoy them. Follow the adventures of Julian, Dick, George (Georgina but she wants to be thought of as an honorary boy), Anne and Timmy the dog on their summer holidays from school when they make amazing discoveries and thwart villains. The stories are set in a mythical place on the Dorset coast, where Blyton loved to holiday herself, and various places in the vicinity. Blyton started writing these stories in the middle of the Second World War and produced a total of 21 approximately annually. She also wrote a series of short stories involving the Famous Five. The stories very much reflect Blyton’s own experiences era and social class: upper middle and comfortable, with people to do the cleaning and cooking. The children are in the 11-15 age range (they never grow older!) and attend boarding school, travel by bicycle, train and car and live in a world where people communicated using letters, telephone calls and telegrams. The intrigue and adventure in the stories is, however, timeless. Many teenagers today (and adults!) will enjoy them.

I have some of the original books in this series. The illustrations in these editions are the same as of old. The text is mostly the same, but, a jarring note is refering to the children wearing jeans. They wore shorts most of the time, and, certainly in Anne's case a skirt. As the illustrations are the original ones, they clearly show the children wearing the clothes from the original text.

Classic collection available at a very reasonable twenty notes or so from some buyers. Great value for money. Very flimsy box will not hold it together. Ok for putting on a shelf but there is no strength in the box, it will not support any weight. All the illustrations on the front and inside are reproductions of the original. The removal\updating of the text is only minor. The over use of the word 'queer' has been dealt with. Replacing it with peculiar or odd for example. It reads better for it. Small point, I didn't like shillings being replaced by 5p and pound notes replaced by pound coins! But I suppose for the modern generation it was necessary. Didn't realise they never used the term 'lashings of ginger beer'! Lashings of other things and they drank plenty of ginger beer but never lashings of ginger beer.

My wife got these for our daughters and reads them these stories every night. The box is high-quality and the books have the old artwork which is really cool and nostalgic.

Muy buena edición con impresión "limpia", no es facsimil como otras que he comprado en Amazon. Buena calidad del papel y buena impresión.

Excellent quality.

The books are fine, all 21 are there. But does not come in compilation box, just wrapped in plastic. This edition comes with old style illustrations on cover and inside. I like that over the more modern editions, because the language and the setting of the stories matches the illustration style very well.

A very nostalgia series book moment from my younger days