E. Nesbit: The inventor of the modern children’s adventure

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

In this collection

• Melisande or, Long and Short Division
• Invocation
• Mary of Magdala
• The Marble Child
• The Maiden's Prayer
• The Enchanted Garden
• My School Days
• Grandsire Triples
• At the Last
• The Mother's Prayer
• The Ebony Frame
• Love Song
• A Noble Dog
• Prayer in Time of War
• A Silly Question
• Special Pleading
• The Beech Tree
• RYE
• The Promise of Spring
• The Magic Flower
• Uncle Abraham's Romance
• The Cockatoucan or Great Aunt Willoughby
• The Prodigal Son
• Change
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