EDITH NESBIT Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 200+ Short Stories, Tales for Children & Poems (Illustrated) PDF Download

Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4304

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This carefully crafted ebook: "EDITH NESBIT Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 200+ Short Stories, Tales for Children & Poems (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, journeys back in time and travel to magical worlds. Nesbit also wrote for adults, including novels, short stories and four collections of horror stories. Content: The Bastable Trilogy The Story of the Treasure Seekers The Wouldbegoods The New Treasure Seekers The Psammead Trilogy Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet The Story of the Amulet The Mouldiwarp Chronicles The House of Arden Harding's Luck Other Children's Novels The Railway Children The Enchanted Castle The Magic City The Wonderful Garden Wet Magic Other Novels The Red House The Incomplete Amorist Salome and the Head (The House With No Address) Daphne in Fitzroy Street Dormant aka Rose Royal The Incredible Honeymoon The Lark Short Story Collections The Book of Dragons: The Book of Beasts Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger The Deliverers of Their Country The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told The Island of the Nine Whirlpools The Dragon Tamers The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice The Magic World: The Cat-hood of Maurice The Mixed Mine Accidental Magic The Princess and the Hedge-pig Septimus Septimusson The White Cat Belinda and Bellamant Justnowland The Related Muff The Magician's Heart Royal Children of English History Pussy and Doggy Tales Nine Unlikely Tales Oswald Bastable and Others Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Grim Tales In Homespun The Literary Sense Man and Maid These Little Ones Collected Short Stories Poetry Collections Lays and Legends All Round the Year Landscape and Song Songs of Love and Empire The Rainbow and the Rose Many Voices Other Works ...

Author: E. Nesbit
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN: 9781406865158
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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A collection of stories for children by the author of "The Railway Children" first published in 1901.

Author: E. NESBIT
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359553443
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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The sequel to Five Children and It follows the wondrous adventures of Robert, Jane, Cyril, Anthea, and The Lamb as they discover a clever phoenix and a magic carpet. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The children are on a fantastic ride with the hopelessly vain but good-hearted phoenix and his flying carpet. They travel to a French castle, to a tropical island, foil a burglar, arrange a marriage, change people's disposition, and have to figure out how to get 199 Persian cats, 398 muskrats, a cow, and a policeman out of their house. Their charming adventures not only entertain but teach them, and the reader, a few gentle lessons." The Phoenix and the Carpet"" is a wonderful book for the young and the young at heart. The adventures are continued and concluded in the third book of the trilogy, "The Story of the Amulet"

Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith 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 Psammead-the "it" in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children's other discovery, the Amulet, thus following a formula successfully established in The Phoenix and the Carpet.

Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3144

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this unique and meticulously edited E.Nesbit collection: The Bastable Trilogy_x000D_ The Story of the Treasure Seekers_x000D_ The Wouldbegoods_x000D_ The New Treasure Seekers_x000D_ The Psammead Trilogy_x000D_ Five Children and It_x000D_ The Phoenix and the Carpet_x000D_ The Story of the Amulet_x000D_ The Mouldiwarp Chronicles_x000D_ The House of Arden_x000D_ Harding's Luck_x000D_ Other Novels_x000D_ The Railway Children_x000D_ The Enchanted Castle_x000D_ The Magic City_x000D_ The Wonderful Garden_x000D_ Wet Magic_x000D_ Short Story Collections_x000D_ The Book of Dragons:_x000D_ The Book of Beasts_x000D_ Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger_x000D_ The Deliverers of Their Country_x000D_ The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told_x000D_ The Island of the Nine Whirlpools_x000D_ The Dragon Tamers_x000D_ The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold_x000D_ Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice_x000D_ Royal Children of English History:_x000D_ Alfred the Great_x000D_ Prince Arthur_x000D_ Henry the Third_x000D_ The First Prince of Wales_x000D_ Edward the Black Prince_x000D_ Henry the Fifth and the Baby King_x000D_ Pussy and Doggy Tales:_x000D_ Too Clever by Half_x000D_ The White Persian_x000D_ A Powerful Friend_x000D_ A Silly Question_x000D_ The Selfish Pussy_x000D_ Meddlesome Pussy_x000D_ Nine Lives_x000D_ The Magic World_x000D_ The Cat-hood of Maurice_x000D_ The Mixed Mine_x000D_ Accidental Magic_x000D_ The Princess and the Hedge-pig_x000D_ Septimus Septimusson_x000D_ The White Cat_x000D_ Belinda and Bellamant_x000D_ Justnowland_x000D_ The Related Muff_x000D_ The Aunt and Amabel_x000D_ Kenneth and the Carp_x000D_ The Magician's Heart_x000D_ Nine Unlikely Tales_x000D_ The Cockatoucan_x000D_ Whereyouwanttogoto_x000D_ The Blue Mountain_x000D_ The Prince, Two, Mice, and some Kitchen Maids_x000D_ Melisande_x000D_ Fortunatus Rex and Co._x000D_ The Sums That Came Right_x000D_ The Town in the Library, in the Town in the Library_x000D_ The Plush Usurpe_x000D_ Oswald Bastable and Others_x000D_ ..._x000D_ Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, jou

Author: Edith Edith Nesbit
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535095037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Why buy our paperbacks? Most Popular Gift Edition - One of it's kind Printed in USA on High Quality Paper Expedited shipping Standard Font size of 10 for all books 30 Days Money Back Guarantee Fulfilled by Amazon Unabridged (100% Original content) BEWARE OF LOW-QUALITY SELLERS Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. About The Railway Children The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits Oswald Barron, who had a deep affection for Nesbit, with having provided the plot. The story concerns a family who move to "Three Chimneys", a house near the railway, after the father, who works at the Foreign office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited. The family take care of a Russian exile, Mr Szczepansky, who came to England looking for his family (later located) and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman, who suffers a broken leg in a tunnel. The theme of an innocent man being falsely imprisoned for espionage and finally vindicated might have been influenced by the Dreyfus Affair, which was a prominent worldwide news item a few years before the book was written. The Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing "a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them" and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.

Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513274791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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The Magic World (1909) is a collection of twelve children’s fantasy stories by English writer Edith Nesbit. Using elements of magic and mystery familiar to readers of her beloved Bastable and Psammead Trilogies, Nesbit crafts tales of wonder and adventure for children and adults alike. In “The Cat-hood of Maurice,” a young boy learns firsthand the consequences of mistreating the family cat. One day, Maurice attaches an empty sardine can to Lord Hugh’s tail, terrifying and traumatizing the poor cat. When his father gets home, Maurice is told that he will be spending the next week at Dr. Strongitharm’s school for wayward boys. At the last moment, Maurice discovers Lord Hugh in his room, who reveals to the boy a magic word that will turn him into a cat. In “Accidental Magic,” a boy named Quentin is sent to school in Salisbury. Immensely interested in archaeology and history, Quentin is excited to learn that he will be able to visit Stonehenge while at school. After getting in a fight with a bully, Quentin runs away in fear of expulsion and escapes through the fields toward Stonehenge. There, he searches for the fabled altar stone, where, exhausted and scared, he falls asleep. When he wakes up, he finds he has been transported to the lost world of Atlantis, where the people call him the “Chosen of the Gods,” but fail to reveal what it is he is chosen for. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Edith Nesbit’s The Magic World is a classic of English children’s literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author: Eleanor Fitzsimons
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 168335687X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year: The “informative and entertaining” first major biography of the trailblazing, controversial children’s author (The Washington Post). Born in 1858, Edith Nesbit is today considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children’s adventure story. In The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit, award-winning biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons uncovers the little-known details of her life, introducing readers to the Fabian Society cofounder and fabulous socialite who hosted legendary parties and had admirers by the dozen, including George Bernard Shaw. Through Nesbit’s letters and archival research, Fitzsimons reveals “E.” to have been a prolific lecturer and writer on socialism and shows how Nesbit incorporated these ideas into her writing, thereby influencing a generation of children—an aspect of her literary legacy never before examined. Fitzsimons’s riveting biography brings new light to the life and works of this remarkable writer and woman. “Meticulous and invaluable...exceptionally illuminating and detailed.” —The Wall Street Journal “Fitzsimons handily reassembles the hundreds of intricate, idiosyncratic parts of the miraculous E. Nesbit machine.” —The New York Times Book Review “I’ve always loved the work of E. Nesbit—The Railway Children and Five Children and It are my favorites—but I knew nothing about the extraordinary, surprising life of this great figure in children’s literature . . . so gripping that I read [it] in two days.” —Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times-bestsellingauthor of The Happiness Project “A charming, lively, and old-fashioned biography . . . highly readable.” —Publishers Weekly “A terrific book.” —Neil Gaiman

Author: E. Nesbit
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528787552
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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“The House of Arden” is a 1908 children's novel written by English poet and author Edith Nesbit. The story revolves around Edred and Elfrida Arden, two children from a poor background who inherit an old, run-down castle and attempt to track down their lost family fortunes which would enable them to restore it to its former glory. Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924) was an English poet and author. She is perhaps best remembered for her children's literature, publishing more than 60 such books under the name E. Nesbit. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, which had a significant influence on the Labour Party and British politics in general. Other notable works by this author include: “The Prophet's Mantle” (1885), “Something Wrong” (1886), and “The Marden Mystery” (1896). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author: E. Nesbit
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119793
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons — including one made of ice and another that takes refuge in the General Post Office. 24 illustrations.