Nesbit’s tales are short, sharp shockers, her delivery vivid, eerie, and unsettling. She wrote about what scared her: ghosts, zombies, ‘things that walk’; madness, murder, and premature burial.
When Father goes away one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a... Læs mere
Edith Nesbit’s natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children’s author. But beyond her beloved children’s stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural.
An imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.
Edith Nesbit was a hugely influential writer whose books include The Railway Children and Five Children and It. The Bastable Series is ripe for rediscovery, and will appeal to fans of Arthur Ransom's Swallows and Amazons, which it inspired.
Six siblings in Victorian London attempt to restore their impoverished family's fortune with hilarious get-rich-quick schemes: digging for treasure, becoming detectives and highway robbers, selling wine, and other comic ventures.
One of the most influential children's writers who ever lived, E. Nesbit deserves a full reappraisal. She once inspired C. S. Lewis and Arthur Ransom - her modern admirers include Neil Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Kate Saunders and Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
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When Roberta, Peter and Phyllis's father is taken away and they move to a tiny cottage in the countryside, the only advantage is the nearby railway.
E. Nesbit is one of the most influential children's writers ever to have lived and her work deserves a reappraisal. Modern fans include Neil Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Kate Saunders and Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their parents. Then, suddenly, their father goes away. The children and their mother move to a smaller house near a... Læs mere