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Complete Novels of E. Nesbit
As well as creating beloved tales now celebrated as children’s classics, E. Nesbit created a diverse body of works, including political and modern novels for adults, highly-accomplished poetry, short stories and non-fiction. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete extant novels of E. Nesbit, with numerous illustrations, rare works, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Nesbit's life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 22 extant novels, with individual contents tables
* Rare novels like Nesbit's last work 'The Lark' appear here for the first time in publishing history
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* The children’s novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Explore the original illustrations of the ‘The Railway Children’ and other famous works
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories
* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read
* Includes Nesbit’s non-fiction treatise on adults learning from children
* Special criticism section, with contemporary reviews and articles evaluating Nesbit’s contribution to literature
* Features Nesbit's rare memoir on her younger years
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
Please note: no known copies of the obscure novels ‘The Marden Mystery’ and ‘The Secret of the Kyriels’ appear to survive. If these works become available at a later time, they will be added to the collection as a free update.
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CONTENTS:
The Bastable Series
THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS
THE WOULDBEGOODS
THE NEW TREASURE SEEKERS
The Psammead Series
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT
THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET
THE STORY OF THE AMULET
The House of Arden Series
THE HOUSE OF ARDEN
HARDING’S LUCK
Other Children’s Novels
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
THE ENCHANTED CASTLE
THE MAGIC CITY
THE WONDERFUL GARDEN
WET MAGIC
FIVE OF US AND MADELINE
Novels for Adults
THE PROPHET’S MANTLE
THE RED HOUSE
THE INCOMPLETE AMORIST
SALOME AND THE HEAD
DAPHNE IN FITZROY STREET
DORMANT
THE INCREDIBLE HONEYMOON
THE LARK
Short Story Collections
GRIM TALES
PUSSY AND DOGGY TALES
IN HOMESPUN
ROYAL CHILDREN OF ENGLISH HISTORY
THE CHILDREN’S SHAKESPEARE
THE BOOK OF DRAGONS
THE LITERARY SENSE
OSWALD BASTABLE AND OTHERS
MAN AND MAID
THE MAGIC WORLD
The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Poetry Collections
LAYS AND LEGENDS
ALL ROUND THE YEAR
LANDSCAPE AND SONG
LAYS AND LEGENDS: SECOND SERIES
THE RAINBOW AND THE ROSE
MANY VOICES
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Non-Fiction
WINGS AND THE CHILD
The Criticism
LIST OF REVIEWS AND NESBIT RELATED ARTICLES
The Autobiography
MY SCHOOL DAYS
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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Nesbit's life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 22 extant novels, with individual contents tables
* Rare novels like Nesbit's last work 'The Lark' appear here for the first time in publishing history
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* The children’s novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Explore the original illustrations of the ‘The Railway Children’ and other famous works
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories
* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read
* Includes Nesbit’s non-fiction treatise on adults learning from children
* Special criticism section, with contemporary reviews and articles evaluating Nesbit’s contribution to literature
* Features Nesbit's rare memoir on her younger years
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
Please note: no known copies of the obscure novels ‘The Marden Mystery’ and ‘The Secret of the Kyriels’ appear to survive. If these works become available at a later time, they will be added to the collection as a free update.
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CONTENTS:
The Bastable Series
THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS
THE WOULDBEGOODS
THE NEW TREASURE SEEKERS
The Psammead Series
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT
THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET
THE STORY OF THE AMULET
The House of Arden Series
THE HOUSE OF ARDEN
HARDING’S LUCK
Other Children’s Novels
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
THE ENCHANTED CASTLE
THE MAGIC CITY
THE WONDERFUL GARDEN
WET MAGIC
FIVE OF US AND MADELINE
Novels for Adults
THE PROPHET’S MANTLE
THE RED HOUSE
THE INCOMPLETE AMORIST
SALOME AND THE HEAD
DAPHNE IN FITZROY STREET
DORMANT
THE INCREDIBLE HONEYMOON
THE LARK
Short Story Collections
GRIM TALES
PUSSY AND DOGGY TALES
IN HOMESPUN
ROYAL CHILDREN OF ENGLISH HISTORY
THE CHILDREN’S SHAKESPEARE
THE BOOK OF DRAGONS
THE LITERARY SENSE
OSWALD BASTABLE AND OTHERS
MAN AND MAID
THE MAGIC WORLD
The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Poetry Collections
LAYS AND LEGENDS
ALL ROUND THE YEAR
LANDSCAPE AND SONG
LAYS AND LEGENDS: SECOND SERIES
THE RAINBOW AND THE ROSE
MANY VOICES
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Non-Fiction
WINGS AND THE CHILD
The Criticism
LIST OF REVIEWS AND NESBIT RELATED ARTICLES
The Autobiography
MY SCHOOL DAYS
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E. Nesbit
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Edith Nesbit
(married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.
She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.
Edith Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of agricultural chemist and schoolmaster John Collis Nesbit. 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. Nesbit therefore spent her childhood attaining an education from whatever sources were available—local grammars, the occasional boarding school but mainly through reading.
At 17 her family finally settled in London and aged 19, Nesbit met Hubert Bland, a political activist and writer. They became lovers and when Nesbit found she was pregnant they became engaged, marrying in April 1880. After this scandalous (for Victorian society) beginning, the marriage would be an unconventional one. Initially, the couple lived separately—Nesbit with her family and Bland with his mother and her live-in companion Maggie Doran.
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. Written under the pen name of her third child 'Fabian Bland', these books were not successful. 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).
In 1899 she had published The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers to great acclaim.
She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.
Edith Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of agricultural chemist and schoolmaster John Collis Nesbit. 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. Nesbit therefore spent her childhood attaining an education from whatever sources were available—local grammars, the occasional boarding school but mainly through reading.
At 17 her family finally settled in London and aged 19, Nesbit met Hubert Bland, a political activist and writer. They became lovers and when Nesbit found she was pregnant they became engaged, marrying in April 1880. After this scandalous (for Victorian society) beginning, the marriage would be an unconventional one. Initially, the couple lived separately—Nesbit with her family and Bland with his mother and her live-in companion Maggie Doran.
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. Written under the pen name of her third child 'Fabian Bland', these books were not successful. 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).
In 1899 she had published The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers to great acclaim.
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June 25, 2018
Excellent collection of all E. Nesbit's works.
February 6, 2018
I like E. Nesbit enormously, but not all her imaginative works equally well. Here are my comments on the items included in this omnibus edition. I list the titles in the order in which they appear, which is by date of publication. My ratings appear to include: didn't like; readable; good; very good.
First come some short stories (in spite of the volume's name).
separate short stories
1891 John Charrington's Wedding. Readable. a sort of ghost-story.
1893 Man-Size in Marble. Good. another ghost-story.
1893 The Ebony Frame. also readable. another supernatural tale.
1892 The Mystery of the Semi-Detached. readable.
1896. In Homespun. a collection of 10 tales, all charming, and all told by a person of the working or servant class. Very good
1899 The Dragon Tamers. a fantastical tale about a blacksmith and a dragon. It's okay.
1899 The Book of Dragons. 9 stories involving dragons. I didn't like them very much.
1899 The Story of the Treasure-Seekers. the first book with the Bastable children. It is good, but episodic. The first of a number of her books involving several children in a family with (at least) one parent missing. Also characteristic of all these books is that the children are amazingly kind to each other, amazingly willing to play with each other, and amazingly apt at getting into scrapes. VERY GOOD.
1899 The Wouldbegoods. Continuing adventures of the Bastable chilluns. VERY GOOD. (But, once again, very episodic.)
1902 Five Children and It. The first of the fantastical novels with this group of chillun. Very droll, good, but more episodic than I care for. Plus: why are these chillun so lacking in common sense?
1904 The Phoenix and the Carpet. The same IT children, but with a different wish-granting supernatural enabler. Good, but also episodic.
1905 The Power of Darkness. Another spooky tale for adults. I don't remember it very well.
1905 The Story of the Amulet. The 5 It children get back together again with It. Same judgment as for the Five Children and It: Good
1905 The Incomplete Amorist. Oops! I may not have read this one. It appears to be a novel about and for adults.
1906 The Railway Chillun. You know this one. VERY GOOD
1907 The Enchanted Castle. You know this one as well. GOOD
1910 The Magic City. Another novel-length fantastical story with and for children: only two, however. I rather liked it. GOOD
1912 The Magic World. 12 fantastical tales involving children (or young princes bzw. princesses). GOOD.
1913 Wet Magic. A fantastical novel about kids at the beach who make friends with a mermaid. I DID NOT LIKE IT.
1908 In the Dark. A ghost story of three chapters. Readable.
First come some short stories (in spite of the volume's name).
separate short stories
1891 John Charrington's Wedding. Readable. a sort of ghost-story.
1893 Man-Size in Marble. Good. another ghost-story.
1893 The Ebony Frame. also readable. another supernatural tale.
1892 The Mystery of the Semi-Detached. readable.
1896. In Homespun. a collection of 10 tales, all charming, and all told by a person of the working or servant class. Very good
1899 The Dragon Tamers. a fantastical tale about a blacksmith and a dragon. It's okay.
1899 The Book of Dragons. 9 stories involving dragons. I didn't like them very much.
1899 The Story of the Treasure-Seekers. the first book with the Bastable children. It is good, but episodic. The first of a number of her books involving several children in a family with (at least) one parent missing. Also characteristic of all these books is that the children are amazingly kind to each other, amazingly willing to play with each other, and amazingly apt at getting into scrapes. VERY GOOD.
1899 The Wouldbegoods. Continuing adventures of the Bastable chilluns. VERY GOOD. (But, once again, very episodic.)
1902 Five Children and It. The first of the fantastical novels with this group of chillun. Very droll, good, but more episodic than I care for. Plus: why are these chillun so lacking in common sense?
1904 The Phoenix and the Carpet. The same IT children, but with a different wish-granting supernatural enabler. Good, but also episodic.
1905 The Power of Darkness. Another spooky tale for adults. I don't remember it very well.
1905 The Story of the Amulet. The 5 It children get back together again with It. Same judgment as for the Five Children and It: Good
1905 The Incomplete Amorist. Oops! I may not have read this one. It appears to be a novel about and for adults.
1906 The Railway Chillun. You know this one. VERY GOOD
1907 The Enchanted Castle. You know this one as well. GOOD
1910 The Magic City. Another novel-length fantastical story with and for children: only two, however. I rather liked it. GOOD
1912 The Magic World. 12 fantastical tales involving children (or young princes bzw. princesses). GOOD.
1913 Wet Magic. A fantastical novel about kids at the beach who make friends with a mermaid. I DID NOT LIKE IT.
1908 In the Dark. A ghost story of three chapters. Readable.
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December 12, 2017The first four stories are ** shorts reminicent of Poe.
Some of the stories have formatting issues.
TEF -- an abundance of surely mistaken question marks.
TMotSD -- At least one incorrect word.
Some of the stories have formatting issues.
TEF -- an abundance of surely mistaken question marks.
TMotSD -- At least one incorrect word.
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