E. Nesbit

Five Children and It, The Railway Children — E. Nesbit brought real children and real magic into the same room and invented a genre.

The inventor of the modern children’s adventure

In this collection

• St. Valentine's Day
• Rochester Castle
• The Last Act
• Faute de Mieux
• At Parting
• Despair
• The Last Thought
• My School Days
• Work
• The Three Kings
• Love Song
• The Whirligig of Time
• The Day of Judgment
• The Poor Man's Guest
• The Sick Journalist
• The Literary Sense
• Apollo and the Men of Cyme
• The Fiery Dragon
• Mother Song
• Appeal
• Old Age
• Lullaby
• From the Tuscan
• In Hospital
• Five Children and It
• At Evening Time There Shall Be Light
• The Aunt and Amabel
• To One Who Pleaded for Candour in Love
• The Blue Mountain
• The Wonderful Garden
• The Fields of Flanders
• White Magic
• The Ebony Frame
• The Destroyer
• A Ballad of Canterbury
• The Old Dispensation

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