Edith Nesbit Books
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Five Children And It
[english | 1902]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [Not to be confused with the science fiction novel Saturns Children by Charles Stross. Saturns Children: How the State Devours Liberty Prosperity and Virtue is a political science book by Alan Duncan and Dominic Hobson. Its main thesis is that states (in particular the United Kingdom on which the book concentrates) expropriate private property eliminate personal liberties and undermine the ...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | juvenile] Downloads: 236
In Homespun
[english | 1896]Edith Nesbit
Excerpts: [... mind, aunt dear. I really haven't brought much and what would you like me to do first?' 'I should think you'd see for yourself,' says she, thumping ...... while they were about it?' 'Come and have some dinner,' the old gentleman said again, 'and perhaps I can help you. I have a basin just like that.' So ...... young Barber went back to London, Ellen, she began to lose her pretty ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories | juvenile] Downloads: 457
In The Dark
[english | 1988]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [In a Dark Dark Room is an I Can Read childrens book published by Alvin Schwartz in 1985.]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 480
John Charringtons Wedding
[english | 1891]Edith Nesbit
Excerpts: [... tossed her dainty blonde head and again refused. A third time he asked her she said it was becoming a confirmed bad habit, and laughed at him ...... and smiled and dimpled, for all the world as though she were in love with him, and had been in love with him all the time. Upon my word, I think ...... than the bride herself, and I was to be best man. The coming marriage was much ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 205
Man Size In Marble
[english | 1893]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [When newlyweds find the cottage of their dreams in the English countryside they are warned that long-ago owners two evil knights always return on Halloween night.]
Genres: [fiction | ghost | short stories] Downloads: 349
The Book Of Dragons
[english | 1899]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons is a 2003 fiction book edited by Dugald Steer published by Templar Publishing in the United Kingdom and by Candlewick Press in the United States. The book was designed by Nghiem Ta and features the artwork of Helen Ward Wayne Anderson and Douglas Carrel.]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | short stories] Downloads: 157
The Dragon Tamers
[english | 1899]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [Dragon Tamers is a novel series written by British author Emma Maree Urquhart. The Dragon Tamers series itself is a set of tales focussing on an alternative universe where Virtual Reality is finally in use for video games. When a group of young players get dragged into one of the virtual worlds they discover that the virtual realities are just as real as their own and if they die in this - far ...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | short stories] Downloads: 175
The Ebony Frame
[english | 1893]Edith Nesbit
Excerpts: [... luminous. I was not engaged to Mildred, but I lodged with her mother, and I sang duets with Mildred and gave her gloves when it would run to it, which ...... curious old things there, sir. Had my aunt had this frame long? Oh, yes, sir. It must have come long before I did, and I've been here seven years ...... hanging in disconsolate shreds on these, and the dust that covered them, ...]
Genres: [fiction | ghost | short stories] Downloads: 66
The Enchanted Castle
[english | 1907]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [An invisible princess a magic ring and more adventures than you could dream of. This is what Gerald Kathleen and Jimmy find when they stumble upon a mysterious castle. At first it all appears to be a lark. But the children soon discover they need all their bravery and ingenuity to contend with the castles supernatural forces.]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | juvenile] Downloads: 360
The Incomplete Amorist
[english | 1906]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [Microfilm.]
Genres: [fiction | romance] Downloads: 418
The Magic City
[english | 1910]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [An extremely unhappy 10-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books chessmen candlesticks and other household items.]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | juvenile] Downloads: 372
The Magic World
[english | 1912]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [This collection includes 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 Aunt and Anabel Kenneth and the Carp and The Magicians Heart]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | short stories] Downloads: 43
The Mystery Of The Semi Detached
[english | 1893]Edith Nesbit
Excerpts: [... It was not quite like a country lane, for it had a pavement and lamp-posts, but it was not a bad place for a meeting all the same: and farther up, ...... rich uncle was visiting at her house, and her mother was not the woman to acknowledge to a moneyed uncle, who might go off any day, a match so deeply ...... now, be coming out But she was not There was no sign of movement about ...]
Genres: [fiction | ghost | short stories] Downloads: 312
The Phoenix And The Carpet
[english | 1904]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [Its startling enough to have a Phoenix hatch in your house but even more startling when it reveals you have a magic carpet on the floor. Conceited it may be but the Phoenix is also good-hearted and obligingly accompanies the children on their adventures through time and space-which magic being what it is rarely turn out as they were meant...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | juvenile] Downloads: 488
The Power Of Darkness
[english | 1905]Edith Nesbit
Excerpts: [... face before him for the last month, in that secret shrine where we set the loved and the hated, the shrine that is lighted by a million lamps kindled ...... of Paris? One has to see one's people sometimes, don't you know, hang it all! was Edward's way of expressing the longing that tore him for the ...... door. Edward came in, an unwieldy figure, clasping pillows, trailing blankets....]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 332
The Railway Children
[english | 1906]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The three children Roberta Peter and Phyllis find amusement in watching the trains on the nearby railway line and waving to the passengers.]
Genres: [fiction | juvenile] Downloads: 236
The Story Of The Amulet
[english | 1905]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [When Cyril Robert Anthea and Jane rescue the magic sand-fairy from a pet shop they have no idea of the astonishing adventures to come!]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | juvenile] Downloads: 435
The Story Of The Treasure Seekers
[english | 1899]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [When their mother dies and their fathers business partner runs off with most of their money the six intrepid Bastable children are determined to restore their familys fallen fortunes.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | juvenile] Downloads: 494
The Wouldbegoods
[english | 1899]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [After being sent to the country to learn to be good the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods but continue to become involved in adventures.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | juvenile] Downloads: 362
Wet Magic
[english | 1913]Edith Nesbit
Summary: [Alan Moores Magic Words is a graphic novel containing some of comic creator Alan Moores songs poems and writings turned into comics or with added art. All the adaptations are made by writer Art Brooks. The art was created by various European artists: Fred Torres Ailantd Sergio Bleda Juan Jose Ryp etc. It was printed by Avatar Press in both hardback and softback in 2002. Reprints the original GN ...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy] Downloads: 319