"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...

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 ...

John Charrington's Wedding by E. Nesbit is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: No one ever thought that May Forster would marry John Charrington; but he thought differently, and things which John Charringt...

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...

Young Philip Haldane has been living a happy life with his beloved older sister Helen, their parents having died some years previously. But when his sister meets a childhood sweetheart-now a widower-and marries him, Philip is plunged into anger and bitter resentment. He extends this resentment to Lucy, the daughter of Helen's new husband. Left alone while his sister goes on her honeymoon, he builds a fantastical city out of wooden blocks and household items. Shortly afterwards, he finds hi...

The Enchanted Castle is a novel for young readers by Edith Nesbit. A large part of the delight of Nesbit's books is that her children behave in quite ordinary ways, getting into scrapes, getting dirty and their clothes torn, making decisions which seem right to them at the time but which are generally wrong-headed.The Enchanted Castle was originally serialized in The Strand Magazine alongside stories by Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle. The first book edition was published in...

In this conclusion to the Psammead Trilogy, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, and Jane are reunited with the cantankerous Sand-fairy. While the old creature can't grant them wishes anymore, it points them towards an old Egyptian amulet that can grant their hearts' desire-in this case the return of their parents and baby brother. While their amulet is only half of a whole, it still acts as a time portal which they use to visit locales like Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Atlantis, and even a utopian future in...

Initially published in The Strand Magazine, which explains its episodic nature, Five Children and It was later collected into a book. Like many of E. Nesbit's works, it has proven popular with children and adults to this day. It has been adapted into a TV series, a musical, a film, and even an anime series.In this story, five siblings encounter an ancient magical creature in a gravel pit. The Psammead, as it calls itself, grants each of them a wish per day, with the restriction that it end...

Harding's Luck, published in 1909, is the sequel to The House of Arden by E. Nesbit. Rather darker and more serious in tone than the previous book, this novel is set in England's Edwardian era, when there was no government-supported welfare and the poor still sometimes starved to death. It centers on young Dickie Harding, a poor, lame orphan boy who is enticed to run away with a disreputable tramp, Mr. Beale. Beale intends to use him to help carry out burglaries (a plot device not dissimil...

Edith Nesbit was a popular children's author of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras in Britain. Though she was writing more than a century ago, her books nevertheless remain popular and are generally still in print.The House of Arden was published in 1908. Like her other tales, such as Five Children and It, the story takes quite ordinary children and plunges them into fantastical adventures.In this book, two children named Edred and Elfrida discover that due to the ...

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The Countess of Bellarmine ARTHUR STRINGER: 11. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven 12. The Button Thief 13. The Wire-Tappers ARTHUR TRAIN: 14. Extradition 15. The Baron de Ville 16. The Golden To...