The book packs everything: Humor, love, sorrow, disappointment, privation, joy, empathy and many more. I assure you that you will love the book - irrespective of your age - for it's very hard not to love every part of it. This is an amazing book, and I believe that it has got no age limit. To think, I might not have picked 'The Railway Children' because this is classified as a children's' book. "Will you give the parsel to the Station Master, because of us not knowing what train you come down by? Say it is for Peter that was sorry about the coals and he will know all right. Father will pay you, or if he has lost all his money, or anything, Peter will pay you when he is a man. We do not know anybody here but you, because Father is away and we do not know the address. Mother is ill and the doctor says to give her the things at the end of the letter, but she says she can't aford it, and to get mutton for us and she will have the broth. In 1899 she had published The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers to great acclaim. Nesbit generated an income for the family by lecturing around the country on socialism and through her journalism (she was editor of the Fabian Society's journal, Today). Written under the pen name of her third child 'Fabian Bland', these books were not successful. Initially, Edith Nesbit books were novels meant for adults, including The Prophet's Mantle (1885) and The Marden Mystery (1896) about the early days of the socialist movement. Initially, the couple lived separately-Nesbit with her family and Bland with his mother and her live-in companion Maggie Doran. After this scandalous (for Victorian society) beginning, the marriage would be an unconventional one. They became lovers and when Nesbit found she was pregnant they became engaged, marrying in April 1880. Nesbit therefore spent her childhood attaining an education from whatever sources were available-local grammars, the occasional boarding school but mainly through reading.Īt 17 her family finally settled in London and aged 19, Nesbit met Hubert Bland, a political activist and writer. The death of her father when she was four and the continuing ill health of her sister meant that Nesbit had a transitory childhood, her family moving across Europe in search of healthy climates only to return to England for financial reasons. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.Įdith Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of agricultural chemist and schoolmaster John Collis Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. In this inexpensive, unabridged edition, it will charm a whole new audience of young readers with its warmth and appeal.Įdith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland 15 August 1858 – ) was an English author and poet she published her books for children under the name of E. The solution to that painful puzzle and many other details and events of the children's lives come to vivid life in this perennial favorite, a story that has captivated generations of readers and, more recently, delighted television and movie audiences. The youngsters' days are filled with adventure and excitement, including their successful attempt to avert a horrible train disaster but the mysterious disappearance of their father continues to haunt them. There the young trio-Roberta, Peter, and young Phyllis-befriend the porter and station master. With the family's fortunes considerably reduced in his absence, the children and their mother are forced to live in a simple country cottage near a railway station. In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-mannered siblings are greatly altered when, one evening, two men arrive at the house and take their father away.
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