Collection of 3 Classic Books: New Treasure Seekers by E. (Edith) Nesbit. The Phoenix And The Carpet by E. Nesbit. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit.

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 ...

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...

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...

Six Bastable children, whose father's business has failed, set out to restore the fallen fortunes of the house by every method a child can devise: digging for treasure, rescuing a rich person, printing a newspaper, becoming detectives. Nesbit ran a large and chaotic household on what her writing earned and helped found the Fabian Society. The narrator is one of the six and declines to say which, though he gives himself away by the third page. Forty-five paintings from 1785 to 1915, includi...

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 ...

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...

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...

This is another great little story from Ms. Nesbit's collection "Grimm Tales". A Halloween story told beautifully! It should be no spoiler to say that it is about marbel carvings that may or may not come to life on halloween.

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 d...

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 d...

Step into the timeless world of Shakespeare through the E. Nesbit's "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" which bring the Bard's greatest plays to life in clear, engaging prose, preserving their drama, romance, humour, and adventure for readers of all ages.Nesbit skilfully distils the essence of each story into a short and accessible chapter, without sacrificing spirit of the original play.From the magic of The Tempest to the tragedy of Hamlet, th...