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"In Homespun" is a short story written by E. Nesbit, a well-known English author best recognized for her children's and fantasy writings. This early twentieth-century story is a moving examination of family dynamics and the intricacies of human connections. The story centres around a family who lives in a modest suburban home. The anonymous protagonist thinks on their family's life, the daily challenges, and the complex emotions that link them together. Nesbit goes expertly into each family member's inner thoughts and feelings, depicting the hardships they encounter as well as their shared moments of joy and grief. Readers see the family's metamorphosis through time as the novel progresses, showing the changes and growth that place within their home. "In Homespun" presents us with a moving view into the heart of a family, reminding us of the enduring relationships that unite us all, thanks to Nesbit's lyrical words and profound insight into human nature. In this emotional novel, E. Nesbit's storytelling prowess shines through, making "In Homespun" a timeless contemplation of the commonplace yet exceptional moments that create our lives and relationships.

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Like other E. Nesbit stories, The Phoenix and the Carpet was initially published in The Strand Magazine. While The Railway Children or Five Children and It proved more popular, Phoenix has still been adapted into three BBC TV series and a film.The story picks up some time after the events of Five Children and It. The children are back in London and encounter another ancient, magical creature: this time a noble, beautiful, arrogant, and vain Phoenix. He comes with a magic carpet which the gang uses to go on adventures around the world. Some things don¿t go as planned, but there are still opportunities to make others happy.As a female British author of children stories, E. Nesbit was not a typical early 20th century woman. Described as tomboy during her childhood, she grew up a staunch supporter of democratic socialism in a time when many were crushed under poverty. She was a founding member of the Fabian Society, and dedicated herself to charity work, so much so that she almost ended up in poverty.Nesbit¿s stories continue to fascinate readers. Her dry wit and respect with which she engages children ensures that adults can also enjoy her tales. Her depiction of magic¿how it follows rules which must be taught or learned, and the painful consequences when they are forgotten¿has influenced the works of other writers such as P. L. Travers, C. S. Lewis, and J. K. Rowling.

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to meet a dragon? To see one up close and to live to tell the tale? In The Book of Dragons, Nesbit carries us into eight tales where dragons shaped and had a profound influence on royalty and children alike. Jump into this fictitious world where wonder, fun, and adventure are in over abundance.

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age.Will you support our efforts with a donation?The Railway Children is Edith Nesbit¿s most well-known and well-loved book for young readers. Since its first book publication in 1906, it has been made into movies, radio plays and television series several times, dramatised in the theatre, performed in actual railway stations, and even turned into a musical.It tells the story of three children: Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, who with their mother are forced to leave their comfortable suburban home and go to live in a small cottage in the country, after their father is taken away from them for what at first seem inexplicable reasons. They live there very quietly, not going to school, whilst their mother writes stories and poems to earn a small income. The children¿s lives, however, are greatly enlivened by their proximity to a nearby railway line and station, in which they take great interest. They befriend the railway staff and have several adventures in which they demonstrate considerable initiative and courage.One unusual topic touched on by the book is the then-current Russia-Japan war, which divided opinion in England. Nesbit was clearly opposed to the actions of the Tsarist government of Russia, and she introduces into the story a Tolstoy-like Russian writer who has escaped from a prison camp in Siberia, to which he was condemned for publishing a book espousing his liberal views.

Wet Magic was the last novel for children published by E. Nesbit. It was originally serialized in The Strand Magazine in 1912, with a book version published in 1913.In the book, four brothers and sisters are on their way to a holiday at the beach. While traveling on a train, they¿re excited to read about the purported sighting of a mermaid near the coastal town where they¿ll be staying, and agree among themselves to join the hunt for this mythical creature. But when they arrive, they discover that the mermaid has been captured and put on show at a circus at the local fairground. After the older children encounter another mermaid in the sea, who implores them to help, they agree they must do what they can to free the captured one. This leads them on to strange adventures.While Wet Magic has much of Nesbit¿s characteristic charm and humor, it doesn¿t appear to have been received as well as her other books, nor has it been as frequently reprinted.

In this conclusion to the Psammead Trilogy, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, and Jane are reunited with the cantankerous Sand-fairy. While the old creature can¿t grant them wishes anymore, it points them towards an old Egyptian amulet that can grant their hearts¿ desire¿in this case the return of their parents and baby brother. While their amulet is only half of a whole, it still acts as a time portal which they use to visit locales like Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Atlantis, and even a utopian future in search of the missing other half.Perhaps one of E. Nesbit¿s most personal works, The Story of the Amulet benefited from her interest in the ancient world, particularly Egypt. With the help of A. E. Wallis Budge, to whom the book is dedicated¿then Head of the Assyrian Departments of the British Museum and translator of the Egyptian Book of the Dead¿she conducted extensive research on the topic and is thus able to bring an exquisite attention to detail. For example, the titular amulet is shaped after the tyet, an Egyptian symbol also known as the ¿knot of Isis.¿ Likewise, the inscription at the back of the amulet is written in authentic Egyptian hieroglyphs.A staunch supporter of democratic socialism and a founding member of the Fabian Society, E. Nesbit cultivated friendships with other like-minded writers, such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, whose influence on this book is easy to notice. She practiced what she preached, so much so that despite her literary successes, her acts of charity brought her close to bankruptcy.These political beliefs are prominently displayed in the book. The children encounter memorable characters during their adventures, chief among them the Queen of Babylon, who causes quite a stir when she later pays them a call in their contemporary London. When the visiting Queen witnesses the squalid living conditions of the London working class, she¿s amazed at how poorly they¿re treated compared to the slaves of her own Babylon. Likewise, the utopian future¿which features a wink to her friend H. G. Wells, the ¿great reformer¿¿is a striking contrast in terms of the happiness, care, and education of the general populace.The book¿s legacy can be found in the works of other writers. Most notably, C. S. Lewis incorporated several elements in his Chronicles of Narnia: the Calormene civilization of The Horse and His Boy draws heavily from The Amulet¿s Babylon, and the episode in The Magician¿s Nephew where Jadis, the White Witch, causes chaos during her short stay in London is also a direct homage to the aforementioned visit from the Queen. The format of these stories, where a group of people take their audience on adventures through time and space to learn about distant cultures, is an uncanny precursor to the popular British TV series Doctor Who.

This is the story of the six Bastable children: Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noël and little Horace Octavius, known as H. O. Due to their mother tragically passing away and their father¿s business partner running away with the money, the ancient and most noble House of Bastable, as the children like to call it, has fallen. In order to restore their family fortune the resourceful siblings go on a hunt for treasure; but whether they dig for gold in the garden, or try to open up a sherry business, their treasure-hunting always ends up getting them in trouble.The Story of the Treasure Seekers was the first novel for children written by Edith Nesbit, and today it is one of her most well-known. The stories of the Bastable children were first published between 1894 and 1899 in a variety of periodicals. For the one-volume publication in 1899 the order of the stories was changed, and several of the stories underwent extensive rewriting. This and her later novels inspired several later writers of English children¿s literature, amongst them C. S. Lewis, who references the Bastable children in The Magician¿s Nephew.The Story of the Treasure Seekers spawned two sequels, The Wouldbegoods in 1901 and New Treasure Seekers in 1904.

Harding¿s Luck, published in 1909, is the sequel to The House of Arden by E. Nesbit.Rather darker and more serious in tone than the previous book, this novel is set in England¿s Edwardian era, when there was no government-supported welfare and the poor still sometimes starved to death. It centers on young Dickie Harding, a poor, lame orphan boy who is enticed to run away with a disreputable tramp, Mr. Beale. Beale intends to use him to help carry out burglaries (a plot device not dissimilar to that of Oliver Twist). Nevertheless Beale becomes a substitute father-figure to Dickie and a strong mutual affection develops.The story then introduces a magical device which sends Dickie back in time to the early reign of King James I, where he inhabits the body of the son of the lord of a castle. Despite this new, very comfortable existence, where he is a member of a rich, respected family and no longer lame, Dickie selflessly forces himself to return to his present day because of a promise he had made to Beale and a desire to help Beale lead a more honest life.Nesbit was a member of the socially-progressive Fabian Society and a friend of H. G. Wells, and it shows in her stories. While Harding¿s Luck is primarily a children¿s novel, it touches on many deeper themes and comments seriously on the social conditions of the author¿s time.

Edith Nesbit was a popular children¿s author of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras in Britain. Though she was writing more than a century ago, her books nevertheless remain popular and are generally still in print.The House of Arden was published in 1908. Like her other, perhaps better known tales, such as Five Children and It, the story takes quite ordinary children of the time and plunges them into fantastical adventures.In this book, two children, with the interesting Saxon names of Edred and Elfrida, aged 10 and 12 respectively, discover that due to the death of a distant relative, young Edred is now Lord of Arden. The estate consists of not much more than a little money, a crumbling castle, and an attached house. An old retainer tells them of a legend regarding the Lord of Arden and a buried treasure. Naturally they are eager to locate the treasure, which may help them restore the castle. They discover a way to summon up the mascot of the House, a white mole or ¿mouldiwarp,¿ who enables them to travel back through time in search of the treasure.

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and published in book form in the same year. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known. Based on the novel, "The Railway Children "by Edith Nesbit, the theme of love of the story is the love connection between the parents and the children. This can be seen in the event where the father was taken away. When the father was taken away, this once a happy family had to move to the countryside.

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English author E. Nesbit wrote the children's book Five Children and It. The story revolves around the Psammead, or the Gifts was the general title of the segment that ran every month from April to December 1902 in the Strand Magazine. A novel based on the stories was later developed and released that same year. Including The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet, it is the first book in a trilogy (1906). Since its initial release, the book has never been out of print. The novel opens with a group of kids moving from London to the Kent countryside, much like Nesbit's The Railway Children. The Psammead, a sand fairy with the power to grant wishes, is discovered by the five children Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their infant brother, the Lamb, while they are playing in a gravel pit. The jewelry finally appears in their home when the kids unintentionally wish they could offer their mother some expensive jewelry. The children must beseech the Psammead for a complicated series of wishes in order to make things right because it appears that the gamekeeper, who is now their buddy, will be held responsible for the robbery.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers is very simple to read book where hard words are normally explained of inside the text. Any kid who can read would most likely partake in the book, yet a little bit of maturity is called for to recognize the do-not-try-this-at-home incidents.The Story of the Treasure Seekers is around six motherless youngsters - Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and H.O. Bastable. Around the time their mom passed on - which was not much before the story started - their dad's business crashed too, so they were left poor and furthermore relatively unsupervised.The children are determined to help their dad and "reestablish the fortunes of the place of Bastable." They try digging in the backyard, selling poetry, tracking down a princess, being bandits, and a large group of different things - each making for a pleasant story, normally wrapping itself up in one part. Over the long haul, they have a chance for being caring for an uncle of their mom's, and, intrigued, he helps their dad's striving business.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers is another renowned book by E. Nesbit. The story opens with Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable and who strives to help their widowed father and restore their family's fortunes. After Mother died, Father was severely ill and his business partner travelled to Spain. The narrative is told from the viewpoint of a young child named Oswald. Because Edith Nesbit was quite observant when it came to kids, her tales consistently depict the kind of activities and disputes that take place between siblings. The story tells the struggles of young children and how they take charge of the situation. Readers will get good entertainment as the story ends on a positive node.

From the beloved author of the classic novel, The Railway Children, comes this magical collection of short stories featuring eight fantastical dragon tales.This enchanting collection of eight short stories is connected through one common theme: dragons. These mysterious beasts inhabit their worlds in varying ways, but each tale contains the same vivid imagery and exciting sense of adventure. The unique stories feature mischievous dragons who are full of joy and fun, as well as dangerous dragons who lurk in the dark and await their prey.Delve into this magical book and allow yourself to be transported via these marvelous tales. The Book of Dragons features eight delightful stories:- 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- King Little Edmund, or The Caves and the CockatriceRead & Co. Children's has proudly republished this beautiful new edition, complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author. This short story collection is perfect for bedtime reading and would make the ideal gift for any dragon lover.