Edith Nesbit

Titles in Fiction category:

• Incomplete Amorist, The

  "No. The chemises aren't cut out. I haven't had time. There are enough shirts to go on with, aren't there, Mrs. James?" said Betty.

Titles in Young Readers category:

• Five Children and It    

  The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and to say, 'Aren't we nearly there?' And every time they passed a house, which was not very often, they all said, 'Oh, ...

• Phoenix and the Carpet, The    

  It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast--Robert's, I fancy--as to the quality of the fireworks laid in for the Guy Fawkes celebration.

• Railway Children, The    

  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, and they lived with their Father and Mot ...

• Story of the Amulet, The    

  There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit. One day they had the good fortune to find in the sandpit a strange creature. Its eyes were on long horns like snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like ...

• Story of the Treasure Seekers, The    

  This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I think when you have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking.

• Wouldbegoods, The    

  Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop--eh, what?'

Titles in Short Stories category:

• Bristol Bowl, The

  My cousin Sarah and me had only one aunt between us, and that was my Aunt Maria, who lived in the little cottage up by the church.