"The E. Nesbit Megapack" collects 26 novels and short stories by Edith Nesbit (who wrote as E. Nesbit), including her most famous novels and series (The Bastable family stories, The Psammead series, etc.) Included are:THE RAILWAY CHILDRENTHE MAGIC CITYFIVE CHILDREN AND ITTHE PHOENIX AND THE CARPETTHE STORY OF THE AMULETTHE MARBLE CHILDTHE ENCHANTED CASTLETHE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERSTHE WOULDBEGOODSTHE ROAD TO ROME;...

The Enchanted Library of E. NesbitA one-volume gateway to every spell, secret, and steam-whistle in Britain’s Golden Age of children’s fantasy— with more than 200 original Victorian-Edwardian illustrations as well as many newly created beautiful full-color illustrations to bring Nesbit's classics to life.Edith Nesbit didn’t just write stories; she invented the template for modern magical adventure. From sand-fairies that twist every wish, to a rail...

The House of Arden by E. Nesbit is a captivating fantasy adventure novel that blends time travel, family mystery, and historical imagination into an enchanting journey through England's past. First published in 1908, the story showcases Nesbit's remarkable talent for combining magical storytelling with historical detail and emotional depth. The novel follows Edred Arden and his sister Elfrida, two children who unexpectedly inherit a long-lost family estate. Their inheritance, however, come...

The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit is a delightful classic children's novel that blends humor, adventure, and family spirit into an imaginative tale of determination and youthful optimism. First published in 1899, the book introduces readers to the Bastable children, a lively group of siblings who decide to restore their family's fallen fortunes after their widowed father loses his wealth. Convinced that hidden treasure is the quickest path to success, the Bastable children emb...

CONTENTS: PHILIP K. DICK 1. Adjustment Team PHILIP K. DICK 2. The Crystal Crypt PHILIP K. DICK 3. The Golden Man PHILIP K. DICK 4. The Hanging Stranger WILKIE COLLINS 5. The Angler's Story Of The Lady Of Glenwith Grange RAFAEL SABATINI 6. The Fool's Love Story RAFAEL SABATINI 7. The Prize O.HENRY 8. The Phonograph and the Graft MAX PEMBERTON 9. A Miracle of Bells MAX PEMBERTON 10. The Risen Dead MAX PEMBERTON 11. The Wolf of Cismon MAX PEMBERTON 12. Treasure of White Creek 13. B. 24 EDGAR ...

Their father has suffered a financial setback, and the children decide to seek their fortune by various means, including digging for treasure in a nearby park, starting a newspaper, and attempting to become highwaymen. Along the way, they encounter a cast of colorful characters, including a Russian prince, a drunken poet, and a kind-hearted pawnbroker.The novel is notable for its realistic portrayal of family life and its use of humor and adventure to explore themes such as poverty, social...

Three children and their mother move from a London villa to a cottage by a railway line after their father is taken away by two men who will not say why. Nesbit serialised it in 1905 and told the whole story from the children's side, so that the reader guesses at the disgrace before Bobbie reads the newspaper. The waving at the train, and what comes down the platform in the last chapter, have survived every adaptation. Ninety-nine plates of painting from 1759 to 1924, among them Lavery and...

Three children and their mother move from a London villa to a cottage by a railway line after their father is taken away by two men who will not say why. Nesbit serialised it in 1905 and told the whole story from the children's side, so that the reader guesses at the disgrace before Bobbie reads the newspaper. The waving at the train, and what comes down the platform in the last chapter, have survived every adaptation. Fifty-three paintings by Grimshaw and Clausen and their contemporaries ...

Half an amulet bought in a London shop opens the past to four children and a Psammead, and sends them to Babylon, Atlantis, Caesar's camp and a future London where nobody is poor. Nesbit was a founding Fabian and wrote her politics into the last chapter without apologising for it; In its future London children are named Wells, after "the great reformer". It is the funniest of her stories and the only one with a genuine ache in it. Fifty-six paintings by David Wilkie and Lawrence Alma-Tadem...

A painter who makes love to women as a pastime meets an eighteen-year-old vicar's stepdaughter sketching in the Kentish woods, and when she takes his idle advice to study art in Paris he finds the game harder to keep up than he expected. Nesbit is remembered for her children's books; this is one of the adult novels she wrote alongside them, and it is sharper about money than about love. Forty-seven plates, among them Henry Sargent's The Dinner Party and Thomas Couture's studio scenes, open...

Eight dragons and the children who deal with them: a boy-king who opens a forbidden book and lets out the Red Dragon, dragons that arrive as small as gnats, an ice dragon at the North Pole, and a cockatrice in a cave. Nesbit published the collection in 1900 between her better-known books, and the tone is pure invention without a moral in sight. "The Book of Beasts" is the story other writers have been rewriting ever since. Forty-two plates by painters including Camille Corot and David Wilk...

The children find an egg in the nursery carpet, hatch a Phoenix in the fire, and learn that the carpet grants three wishes a day — which is enough for a French tower, a treasure island, a burglary and a cow in a lecture hall. Nesbit wrote the middle book of the Psammead trilogy for a magazine, a chapter a month, and the deadline shows in the best possible way. The Phoenix is the most conceited creature in English children's books and knows it. Fifty-two plates from Wilkie to Cassatt, 1812 ...