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Lifetime: 1858 - 1924 Passed: ≈ 100 years ago

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E. Nesbit

Books by E. Nesbit

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Five Children and It

Fantasy Adventure Humour Children's Literature
Family Children Adventure England Magic Countryside Fantasy Siblings Humor Fairy Wishes Sand Psammead Unintended consequences

This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to gr...

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Story of the Treasure Seekers

Comedy Adventure Fiction Children's Literature
Family Mystery Children Poverty Adventure Treasure Friendship England Imagination Secret Siblings Humor Optimism

This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savage)

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Railway Children

Fantasy Adventure Fiction Children's Literature
Family Mystery Children Nature Adventure Friendship Loss England Railway Nostalgia Countryside Imagination Secret Coming-of-age Classic Victorian era Optimism Train Orphan Growing up Change

Edith Nesbit’s classic story, in which three children, pulled suddenly from their comfortable suburban life, move to the country with their mother, where they come to know and love the ways of the railways. (Summary by Karen Savage)

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Enchanted Castle

Fantasy Adventure Children's Literature
School Mystery Children Adventure Castle Magic Fantasy Fairy Tale Wishes Princess Enchanted Ring Statues Lovers Price Holidays Estate Housekeeper Surprise

Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the center of a maze. Or is it? The castle turns out to b...

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Many Voices (selection from)

Poetry Fairy Tale Children's Literature
19th century Love Death Children's Literature Imagination Poetry Longing Sweetness Joy Fairies Victorian Poetry Gardens Emotions Insight Edith Nesbit E. Nesbit

E. Nesbit (Edith Bland) was a prodigious 19th century children’s writer who produced over 60 books of fiction for children. This book of poems has many elements which would appeal to children but there’s also some exploration of her feelings of love,...

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Wouldbegoods, Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers

Fantasy Adventure Humour Children's Literature
Family Victorian Mystery Children Nature Adventure Children's Literature Treasure Friendship England Summer Mischief Countryside Imagination Rural Fantasy Secret Adventures Edwardian era Humor Sibling rivalry Secrets Bastable Dog Bastable children

The Bastable children, first met in The Treasure Seekers, are sent to stay in the countryside; is it large enough to contain their exuberant activities? They (and Pincher the dog) have every intention of being good... (Description by Alan Chant)All c...

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All Round the Year

Poetry Humour Children's Literature
Nature Children's Literature Seasons Poetry Verse Whimsical British Literature E. Nesbit Saretta Nesbit Collaboration

A light and whimsical collection of poems by the celebrated children's author E Nesbit, in collaboration with Saretta Nesbit. (Summary by David Barnes)Read by David Barnes, Lizzie Driver, Sarah McIntyre, Stuart Pyle, Cori Samuel, and Peter Yearsley.

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New Treasure Seekers

Fantasy Adventure Fiction Humour Children's Literature
Family Play Mystery Children Adventure Treasure Friendship England Mischief Imagination Fun Fantasy Secret Siblings Humor Edwardian Cousins Cousin Fete Elopement

Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H.O, and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a fete, unwittingly assisting an elopement, reforming their nasty cousin Archibald or even get...

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Nine Unlikely Tales

Fantasy Fairy Tale Children's Literature
Adventure Children's Literature Imaginative Magic Fantasy Morals Charming Fairy tales Classic Humor King Unusual Arithmetic fairy Villa-residence Nagging machine Nesbit

Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence and the dreadful automatic nagging machine.All are classic Nesbit: charming, novel and not afraid to squeeze i...

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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Fiction Drama Children's Literature
Drama History Children Tragedy Romance Comedy Literature Plays Fiction Classic Literature Stories English literature Shakespeare Edith Nesbit Nesbit Retellings Adaptations

Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children would not only understand, but delight in. Thi...

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Phoenix and the Carpet

Fantasy Adventure Children's Literature
Family Children Adventure Time Travel England Magic Mischief Imagination Fantasy Siblings Humor Victorian era Wishes Phoenix Carpet Talking animal

The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists – Cyril, Anthea, R...

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Story of the Amulet

Fantasy Adventure Children's Literature
Mystery Children Adventure Historical Fiction Time Travel Magic Fantasy Secret Siblings Psammead Ancient Egypt Wish Amulet

The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psamm...

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Magic World

Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of stories for children of all ages. The Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E. Nesb...

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Book of Dragons

A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses: These eight dragon tales are filled with the imaginative wit of children's author Edith Nesbit. (Summary b...

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Magic City

Philip and Lucy discover that the city Philip has built using toys, books and household objects, has come alive. This is the account of their incredible adventures in those magical lands, where they meet characters from books and history, mythical be...

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Through the Wood

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Through the Wood by E. Nesbit. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 11th, 2009.

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Royal Children of English History

From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the things that are happening here and now, and that are put in the newspapers, will be history for little children one of...

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House of Arden

This novel describes how Edred and Elfrida Arden and their Aunt Edith embark on a treasure hunt through time - for the famous Arden family treasure. With help from the magical creature Mouldiwarp, they find a whole lot of excitement and adventure. Th...

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Harding's Luck

Harding's luck is sequel to E. Nesbit's "The House of Arden". It tells the story of Dickie Harding, a disabled boy, who one day accidentally discovers an old magic, that allows him to travel into his own past. There he meets Elfrida and Edred Arden (...

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My School Days

A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories about teachers, fellow pupils, the things that scared her most as a child (and even as an adult) and a vivid ac...

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Children's Shakespeare

This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short stories or fairy tales suitable to keep the attention of child readers or listeners. The introduction of the boo...

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Pussy and Doggy Tales

Charming Tales about cats and dogs. (Summary by Elli)

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Literary Sense

A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Many of her books have been made into television series or films. She wrote for both adult...

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Wings and the Child

"When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little things such as a child may find and use. But as I kept the thought by me it grew and changed, as thoughts...

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