Edith Nesbit

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children's author . . . "He asked idle questions: she answered them with a conscientious tremulous truthfulness that showed to him as the most finished art. Betty told him nervously and in words ill-chosen everything that he asked to know, but all the while the undercurrent of questions rang strong within her

Volshebnye miry, sozdannye izvestnoj anglijskoj pisatelnitsej Edit Nesbit, probuzhdajut voobrazhenie i perenosjat chitatelej v sovershenno druguju realnost.Roman "The Magic City" byl napisan v 1910 godu i eschjo ne vykhodil na russkom jazyke. Mezhdu tem, tvorchestvo Edit Nesbit (1858 - 1924) okazalo bolshoe vlijanie na razvitie detskoj literatury. Prijom, kotoryj ispolzovala Nesbit v svikh knigakh (kogda obychnye ljudi, sovremenniki avtora v povsednevnoj zhizni stalkivajutsja s volshebstvom), vzjali "na vooruzhenie" samye talantlivye pisateli dvadtsatogo veka - Pamela Lindon Trevers (avtor istorij o Meri Poppins), Diana Uinn Dzhons i Dzhoan Rouling. Klajv Stejplz Ljuis, avtor tsikla "Khroniki Narnii", dazhe upominaet geroev Nesbit v romane "Plemjannik charodeja".Edit Nesbit napisala bolee 60 romanov dlja detej. Mnogie iz nikh perevedeny na russkij jazyk.Odnazhdy nochju desjatiletnij Filip, ne vykhodja iz doma, popadaet v volshebnyj gorod, kotoryj on sam i sozdal. No kak emu ubedit mestnykh zhitelej, chto on prishjol s mirom? Kakie dobrye dela i postupki pomogut malchiku obresti druzej i osvobodit gorod ot kovarnoj razrushitelnitsy?Filip vmeste so svoej podrugoj Ljusi projdjot ochen dolgij i slozhnyj put: srazitsja s drakonom, postroit Kovcheg i osvobodit zhitelej Somnolensii ot vlasti Velikogo Lenivtsa. V neverojatnykh prikljuchenijakh junogo geroja soprovozhdajut skazochnye personazhi i samye udivitelnye mificheskie suschestva. Na stranitsakh knigi volshebnyj gorod ozhivaet blagodarja utonchjonnym illjustratsijam molodoj khudozhnitsy Ekateriny Volzhinoj.Dlja mladshego shkolnogo vozrasta.Perevodchik: Ivanov Anton Davidovich, Ustinova Anna VjacheslavovnaKhudozhnik: Volzhina Ekaterina

The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace the one from the nursery that was destroyed in an unfortunate fire accident. Through a series of exciting events, the children find an egg in the carpet which cracks into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magical one that will grant them three wishes per day...

The story opens with the description of three little Londoners who enjoy an ordinary, peaceful life in the city with visits to the Zoo and Madame Tussauds. They have a charming, well-appointed home and loving parents. Things take a sudden turn for the worst when Father suddenly leaves after receiving mysterious "bad news." Mother decides equally suddenly to move with the children to the country-side and here begins their adventure with the railways. They befriend a strange Old Gentleman who invariably travels on the 9.15 train from near their home and get drawn into bizarre and dangerous events...

A big estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, who discover it while exploring. The blue lake, the pink marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a setting like a fairy tale. They find in the middle a maze in the rose garden and they find a sleeping fairy princess.The "princess" tells them that the castle is full of magic. She shows them the treasures of the castle. There is also a magic ring she says is a ring of invisibility, but when it actually turns her invisible she panics and admits that she is the housekeeper's niece, Mabel, and was just play-acting, but then the children soon discover that the ring has other magical powers.

Edith Nesbit's The Book of Dragons is a classic collection of eight dragon-themed short stories first published in 1911.

Edith Nesbit's The Book of Dragons is a classic collection of eight dragon-themed short stories first published in 1911.

To Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, the house in the country promises a summer of freedom and play. But when they accidently uncover an accident Psammead--or Sand-fairy--who has the power to make wishes come true, they find themselves having the holiday of a lifetime, sharing one thrilling adventure after another. Asleep since dinosaurs roamed the earth, the ill-tempered, odd--looking Psammead --with his spider-shaped body, bat's ears, and snail's eyes --grudgingly agrees to grant the children one wish per day. Soon, though the children discover that their wishes have a tendancy to turn out quite differnetly than expected. Whatever they wish whether it's to fly like a bird, live in a mighty castle, or have an immense fortune --something goes terribly wrong, hilariously wrong.

The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside. The five children: Cyril, Anthea, Jane, Robert, and their baby brother. While playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead (a sand fairy) who has the ability to grant wishes. He grants each of the children one wish each day to be shared among them, with the caveat that the wishes will turn to stone at sunset. This, apparently, used to be the rule in the Stone Age, when all that children wished for was food and the bones of which then became fossils. The five children's first wish is to be "as beautiful as the day". The wish ends at sunset and its effects simply vanish, leading the Psammead to observe that some wishes are too fanciful to be changed to stone. A book the feeds the imagination.

The story concerns a family who move from London to "The Three Chimneys", a house near the railway in Yorkshire, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited. The family takes care of a Russian exile, Mr Szczepansky, who came to England looking for his family (later located) and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman, who suffers a broken leg in a tunnel.

Eight tales of unpredictable whimsical dragons

the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb - are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead or sand-fairy, who has the ability to grant wishes. He persuades the children to take one wish each day to be shared among them, with the caveat that the wishes will turn to stone at sunset. This, apparently, used to be the rule in the Stone Age, when all that children wished for was food, the bones of which then became fossils. The five children's first wish is to be "as beautiful as the day". The wish ends at sunset and its effects simply vanish, leading the Psammead to observe that some wishes are too fanciful to be changed to stone.

A groom promises to be at the church on time, even if he has to come back from the grave to do it.A man inherits a property where he discovers a portrait of a woman that will change his life forever.Two newlyweds find their dream country cottage, unaware of an ancient curse from the previous owners. A gripping, unsettling and utterly chilling collection of short stories from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits Oswald Barron, who had a deep affection for Nesbit, with having provided the plot.he story concerns a family who move from London to "The Three Chimneys", a house near the railway in Yorkshire, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited. The family take care of a Russian exile, Mr Szczepansky, who came to England looking for his family (later located) and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman, who suffers a broken leg in a tunnel. The theme of an innocent man being falsely imprisoned for espionage and finally vindicated might have been influenced by the Dreyfus Affair, which was a prominent worldwide news item a few years before the book was written. The Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing "a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them" and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.