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The Railway Children

The Railway Children

by E. Nesbit
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/07/2006

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"They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children..." In this, Nesbit's most well-known novel, the children - Roberta, Peter and Phyllis do not stay suburban children for long. Instead they must move to a small country house with their mother after their father is mysteriously take away from their house. They are drawn to the one source of activity in their sleep town - the railway station. There they have adventures, make new friends and find a way to rescue their father and their family.
ISBN:
9781598181791
9781598181791
Category:
Science fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-07-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Alan Rodgers Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
228
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x17mm
Weight:
0.48kg
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit was born in 1858. Her father died when she was only three and so her family moved all over England. Poverty was something she had known first hand, both as a child and as a young married woman with small children. Like the Railway Childrens' Mother, she was forced to try and sell her stories and poems to editors.

Her first children's book, The Treasure Seekers, was published in 1899. She also wrote Five Children and It but her most famous story is The Railway Children which was first published in 1905 and it hasn't been out of print since.

Edith Nesbit was a lady ahead of her time - she cut her hair short, which was considered a very bold move in Victorian times, and she was a founding member of a group that worked towards improvements in politics and society called The Fabian Society. She died in 1924.

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