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E. Nesbit (1858–1924)

Autor(a) de The Railway Children

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About the Author

E. Nesbit (1858-1924) wrote her first highly successful work for children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, in 1899. Her many books for young readers, including The Magic City, Wet Magic, The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and The Enchanted Castle, gained her a popularity that has lasted mostrar mais for more than a century Peter Glassman is the owner of Books of Wonder, the New York City bookstore and publisher specializing in both new and old imaginative books for children mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por E. Nesbit

The Railway Children (1905) 5,819 exemplares
Five Children and It (1902) 4,595 exemplares
The Enchanted Castle (1907) 2,412 exemplares
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) 1,890 exemplares
The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) 1,771 exemplares
The Story of the Amulet (1906) 1,286 exemplares
The Book of Dragons (1900) 1,183 exemplares
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children (1900) — Adaptor — 1,158 exemplares
The Magic City (1910) 490 exemplares
The Magic World (1912) 463 exemplares
The House of Arden (1908) 459 exemplares
The New Treasure Seekers (1904) 332 exemplares
Wet Magic (1913) 279 exemplares
Melisande (1989) 269 exemplares
The Book of Beasts (1900) 180 exemplares
Jack and the Beanstalk (2006) 156 exemplares
Harding's Luck (1909) 152 exemplares
The Lark (1922) 115 exemplares
The Deliverers of Their Country (1899) 113 exemplares
Long Ago When I Was Young (1966) 76 exemplares
Lionel and the Book of Beasts (2006) 64 exemplares
Oswald Bastable and Others (1905) 61 exemplares
The Wonderful Garden (1921) 58 exemplares
In The Dark (1988) 56 exemplares
Fairy Stories (1977) 46 exemplares
Shakespeare Retold (2016) 45 exemplares
The Cockatoucan (1967) 44 exemplares
The Town in the Library (1534) 42 exemplares
The Incomplete Amorist (1906) 39 exemplares
Horror Stories (Penguin Worlds) (2016) 38 exemplares
Grim Tales (1893) 35 exemplares
The Rainbow and the Rose (1905) 32 exemplares
Magician's Heart (Piccolo Books) (1971) 30 exemplares
Nine Unlikely Tales (1923) 28 exemplares
Royal Children of English History (1896) 27 exemplares
Ice Dragon (1633) 26 exemplares
The Red House (1902) 25 exemplares
The Conscience Pudding (1970) 22 exemplares
Five of us, and Madeline (1899) 21 exemplares
Tales of Terror (1983) 20 exemplares
The Story of the Railway Children (1970) — Original story — 17 exemplares
A School Bewitched (1986) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Incredible Honeymoon (2010) 15 exemplares
Many Voices (2007) 14 exemplares
The Second Macabre Megapack (2013) 14 exemplares
Beauty and the Beast (1988) 13 exemplares
In Homespun (1896) 13 exemplares
Pussy and Doggy Tales (2010) 12 exemplares
John Charrington's Wedding (2010) 10 exemplares
Dragon Tales (Junior Classics) (2009) 9 exemplares
The Ebony Frame (2009) 9 exemplares
My School Days (2006) 9 exemplares
The Literary Sense (1750) 8 exemplares
The Dragon Tamers (1899) 8 exemplares
Man and Maid (1906) 8 exemplares
All Round the Year (1888) 8 exemplares
Shakespeare Made Easy (2010) 7 exemplares
The old nursery stories (1975) 6 exemplares
Daphne in Fitzroy Street (2010) 5 exemplares
The Last of the Dragons (2013) 4 exemplares
Belinda and Bellament (1982) 4 exemplares
Relatos sombríos (1900) 4 exemplares
Ghost Stories (2013) 4 exemplares
The Garden of Truth (2005) 4 exemplares
The Fiery Dragon (1978) 4 exemplares
EVENTIDE SONGS AND SKETCHES (1890) 3 exemplares
The Golden Apple and Other Stories — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Shakespeare para niños (2007) 3 exemplares
Miss Mischief (1890) 3 exemplares
Landscape and Song (2007) 3 exemplares
Iz mrtvih (2008) 2 exemplares
Tündérmesék (1983) 2 exemplares
Terror sin límites (2017) 2 exemplares
The Complete Psammead Trilogy (2017) 2 exemplares
Lays and legends, second series (2019) 2 exemplares
February, A Month In Verse (2011) 2 exemplares
The Aunt and Amabel (2012) 2 exemplares
The railway children. Level 2 (2016) 2 exemplares
Number 17 2 exemplares
Lays and Legends (2013) 2 exemplares
The Railway children 2 exemplares
The Haunted House 2 exemplares
Five Children and It annotated (2020) 2 exemplares
The Ghost Stories (2012) 1 exemplar
Imeline aed : [jutustus] (2001) 1 exemplar
Star Of Bethlehem 1 exemplar
A sombra 1 exemplar
The Prophet's Mantle (2017) 1 exemplar
These Little Ones (2010) 1 exemplar
Magic World (1988) 1 exemplar
The Five Children 1 exemplar
Accidental Magic 1 exemplar
Something Wrong 1 exemplar
In the spring time 1 exemplar
Dormant: A Gothic Romance (2017) 1 exemplar
Doggy Tales (2017) 1 exemplar
By Land and Sea 1 exemplar
Hurst of Hurstcote 1 exemplar
Pilot, The 1 exemplar
The magical book (2007) 1 exemplar
Autumn Songs and Sketches (1886) 1 exemplar
E. Nesbit: 14 Novels (2015) 1 exemplar
Books 1 exemplar
Rose Royal 1 exemplar
THE MAGICAL BOOK 1 exemplar
Spring Songs And Sketches (1880) 1 exemplar
The Lily and the Cross (2011) 1 exemplar
The Pavilion 1 exemplar
Atlantis 1 exemplar
A MISSA DOS MORTOS 1 exemplar
livro a fnix e o tapete (1900) 1 exemplar
A SOMBRA 1 exemplar
Buyulu Dunya 1 exemplar
Sweet Lavender 1 exemplar
The Shadow 1 exemplar
Księga smoków (2006) 1 exemplar
The Railway Children (2016) 1 exemplar
Il ‰gioco (2017) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Unnatural Creatures (2013) — Contribuidor — 1,228 exemplares
The Dark Descent (1987) — Contribuidor — 719 exemplares
The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey (1959) — Contribuidor — 671 exemplares
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy (2003) — Contribuidor — 608 exemplares
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 541 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992) — Contribuidor — 536 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (1976) — Contribuidor — 516 exemplares
The Victorian Fairytale Book (1988) — Contribuidor — 461 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) — Contribuidor — 365 exemplares
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1993) — Contribuidor — 338 exemplares
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1989) — Contribuidor — 328 exemplares
Fantasy Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 322 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women (2001) — Contribuidor — 286 exemplares
In the Nursery (1932) — Contribuidor, algumas edições285 exemplares
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2005) — Contribuidor — 189 exemplares
Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology (1991) — Contribuidor — 171 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 168 exemplares
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Contribuidor — 166 exemplares
Vampire Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
The Supernatural Omnibus (1931) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (2006) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (2007) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares
Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent (1909) — Contribuidor, algumas edições132 exemplares
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves (1987) — Contribuidor — 126 exemplares
Mostly Ghostly (1991) — Autor — 118 exemplares
Chilling Ghost Short Stories (2015) — Contribuidor — 114 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Dragons (2021) — Contribuidor — 110 exemplares
Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
Strange Tales From the Strand (1991) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology (2021) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain (2020) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Poems Between Women (1997) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
Princess Tales (1971) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (2019) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
A Book of Princesses (1963) — Contribuidor — 87 exemplares
Victorian Fairy Tales (2014) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Murder Mayhem Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2016) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
65 Great Spine Chillers (1988) — Contribuidor — 79 exemplares
Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings (2018) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
Supernatural Horror Short Stories (2017) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
Halloween (2011) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (2020) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Haunted House Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1963) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Over the Rainbow Tales of Fantasy and Imagination (1983) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
The Giant Book of Ghost Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
The Supernatural Reader (1953) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Animal Friends and Adventures (1949) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Great Classic Stories: 22 Unabridged Classics (2006) — Contribuidor, algumas edições52 exemplares
Great Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery and Madness (2004) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 (1656) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (2020) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Great Ghost Stories (Books of Wonder) (1998) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women (2011) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science (2019) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Ghosts for Christmas (1988) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1997) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Women of the Weird: Eerie Stories by the Gentle Sex (1976) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Tales from the Dead of Night (2013) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Great Tales of Terror (2002) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories (2010) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
Anthology of Fear 20 Haunting Stories for Winter Nights (1988) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
The Railway Children [2000 TV movie] (2004) — Original book — 36 exemplares
Round the Christmas Fire: Festive Stories (2013) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Medusa's Daughters (2020) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Epic Fantasy Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales to Read at Christmas (2017) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019) — Designer da capa — 29 exemplares
Footsteps in the Dark: Short Stories (2020) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural (2002) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
A Book of Princes (1964) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Five Children and It [2004 film] (2004) — Original book — 24 exemplares
The Wizard's Den: Spellbinding Stories of Magic & Magicians (2001) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
A Treasury of Victorian ghost stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The Railway Children [1970 film] (2010) — Original story — 22 exemplares
The Treasure Seekers [1996 TV movie] (1996) — Original story — 22 exemplares
Cuentos de amor victorianos (2004) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
British Weird (2020) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Dragons, Dragons, Dragons (1972) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers (2008) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Horror by Lamplight (1993) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Nightfrights (1972) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Lost Souls Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2018) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Second Armada Ghost Book (1968) — Contribuidor, algumas edições16 exemplares
Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 (2016) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny: 38 (2023) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
The Favourite Wonder Book (1938) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Dreams and Wonders: Stories from the Dawn of Modern Fantasy (2010) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Harper Book of Princes (1964) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Book of Wizards: Stories of Enchantment From Near and Far (2004) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Fifteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1979) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication (1995) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2000 (2000) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
A Vintage Christmas (Vintage Minis) (2018) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Avenging Angels: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers (2018) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (2014) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The New Windmill Book of Stories from Different Genres (1998) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Classic Tales of Ghosts and Vampires (2004) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (1915) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
More Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts (1981) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, January 1974 (1974) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Venomous Tales of Villainy and Vengeance: An Anthology (1984) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The great weird stories (1977) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
More Voices from the Radium Age (MIT Press / Radium Age) (2023) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
The Ghost Story MEGAPACK®: 25 Classic Tales by Masters (2013) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Spooky Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of Ghosts and Ghouls (1984) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Classic Tales of Ghosts and Vampires: Volume 2 (Unabridged) (2008) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The dream garden : a children's annual (1905) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Murder Mixture: An Anthology of Crime Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Nesbit, E.
Nome legal
Nesbit, Edith
Outros nomes
Bland, Edith (married name)
Bland, Fabian (pseudonym)
Tucker, Edith (married name)
Data de nascimento
1858-08-15
Data de falecimento
1924-05-04
Localização do túmulo
St. Mary in the Marsh churchyard, Kent, England
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
País (no mapa)
England, UK
Local de nascimento
London, England, UK
Kennington, Surrey, England, UK
Local de falecimento
New Romney, Kent, England, UK
Locais de residência
Well Hall, Eltham, London, England, UK (1899-1921)
London, England, UK
New Romney, Kent, England, UK
France
Germany
Spain (mostrar todos 11)
Halstead, Kent, England, UK
Lewisham, London, England, UK
Lee, London, England, UK
Grove Park, London, England, UK
St Mary's Bay, Dymchurch, Kent, UK
Educação
French convent
Ocupações
novelist
poet
short story writer
children's book author
Playwright
Organizações
Fabian Society (co-founder)

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Edith Nesbit was born in London, England. She was educated at home and also attended a boarding school in France. In 1880, at age 19, she married Hubert Bland, a journalist and economist, with whom she had five children. The couple were both socialists and became co-founders of the Fabian Society in 1884. They published a couple of works together as Fabian Bland. After Bland's death, Edith remarried in 1917 to Thomas Terry Tucker, a marine engineer. Under the name E. Nesbit, she wrote and collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature, including novels, collections of short stories, plays, poetry, and picture books. Among her best-known books are The Railway Children (1906), which has been adaptated into films several times; The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1898); and The Wouldbegoods (1899).

Membros

Discussions

Folio Archives 334: The Railway Children by E. Nesbit 1999 em Folio Society Devotees (Agosto 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Man-Size in Marble" by E. Nesbit em The Weird Tradition (Julho 2022)
153. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit em Backlisted Book Club (Março 2022)

Críticas

When young Philip Haldane builds a play city out of odds and ends, the fantastic creation comes to life, and he and new stepsister Lucy are magically transported into it. Now they must try to save the Magic City by fulfilling an ancient prophecy--despite a mysterious adversary determined to steal their glory for herself. How Philip and Lucy come to forge a friendship and together triumph over impending disaster makes for a riveting read.
 
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PlumfieldCH | 10 outras críticas | Mar 14, 2024 |
More cheerful Edwardian romps with the Bastable kids, this time in the Kent countryside. You can tell that E Nesbit was also a writer of quite scary ghost stories for adults here. It comes through in "The Tower of Mystery", halfway up which someone was entombed. You can't see him now, but once there was only glass round him... "Hunting the Fox" is a bit macabre too, and "The Dragon's Teeth" mentions skeletons twice in a jokey-scarey way.
A good example of her adult ghost stories is "Mansize in Marble".… (mais)
 
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PollyMoore3 | 10 outras críticas | Mar 7, 2024 |
Having a lovely time re-reading all my E Nesbits, starting with this as it's the first (1899). It's probably the first re-read since childhood, so I was appalled by Chapter 9, "The G B" (generous benefactor). The irony is that the man they apply to for money is not portrayed as a generous benefactor at all, but in a slyly stereotypical way as the "archetypal" Jewish moneylender. As a kid I would have not got the references at all, but now they leap out at you. Edith, I'm ashamed of you, even for those days.
The rest of the story is a wonderful, funny romp, and very enjoyable, apart of course from the "N" word at the end.
I'd never say don't read a book because of its archaic, perhaps unintentional racism, but do put your mental filters on.
… (mais)
 
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PollyMoore3 | 25 outras críticas | Feb 29, 2024 |
I do enjoy almost anything written by E. Nesbit, and 90% of this book is amusing and interesting. Except for the racist chapter that is all bout the same kind of stereotypical racism that Peter Pan has. Plenty of funny moments and clever turns of phrase.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 72 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
272
Also by
143
Membros
27,213
Popularidade
#757
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
416
ISBN
2,002
Línguas
26
Marcado como favorito
84

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