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E. Nesbit
(Edith Nesbit)
(1858 - 1924)
Edith Nesbit was an English author and poet whose children’s works were published 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.
Free Ebooks
On our Free Downloads page, get five free ebooks by Edith Nesbit:
- Five Children and It (1902)
- The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
- The Railway Children (1906)
- The Story of the Amulet (1906)
- The Wouldbegoods (1901)
Bibliography
Wet Magic (1958)
When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Wet Magic (1996)
When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Whereyouwantogoto and Other Unlikely Tales (1993)
Five of the Unlikely Tales in a miniature book.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Elizabeth Hope Shaw
Claude A. Shepperson
Wings and the Child: or The Building of Magic Cities (1913)
Here the author explains her theory of play and the building of play cities and landscapes as in her own novel The Magic City. Read online at Project Gutenberg. Or at Google Books.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
George Barraud
Photographs
The Wonderful Garden: or the Three C’s (1911)
Caroline, Charlotte and Charles are staying with their great-uncle and try to work magic with a book on the language of flowers - and get their heart’s desire. Read online at gutenberg.org.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Wonderful Garden: or the Three C’s (1935)
Caroline, Charlotte and Charles are staying with their great-uncle and try to work magic with a book on the language of flowers - and get their heart’s desire.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good,” the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Arthur H. Buckland
John Hassall
Et al
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Reginald Birch
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1947)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1958)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Arthur H. Buckland
John Hassall