As well as creating beloved tales now celebrated as children's classics, E. Nesbit created a diverse body of works, including political and modern novels for adults, highly-accomplished poetry, short stories and non-fiction. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents the complete fictional works of E. Nesbit, with numerous illustrations, rare works, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Nesbit's life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 22 extant novels, with individual contents tables
* Rare novels like 'The Lark' appear here for the first time in publishing history
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* The children's novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Explore the original illustrations of the 'The Railway Children' and other famous works
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories
* Rare poetry not available in other collections
* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read
* Includes Nesbit's non-fiction treatise on adults learning from children
* Special criticism section, with contemporary reviews and articles evaluating Nesbit's contribution to literature
* Features Nesbit's rare memoir on her younger years
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with 9 more works, including seminal horror story collections
Please note: a few rare works are not available in print at the time of publication. If these works become available, they will be added to the collection as a free update.
CONTENTS:
The Bastable Series
The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899)
The Wouldbegoods (1901)
The New Treasure Seekers (1904)
The Psammead Series
Five Children and It (1902)
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
The Story of the Amulet (1906)
The House of Arden Series
The House of Arden (1908)
Harding’s Luck (1909)
Other Children’s Novels
The Railway Children (1906)
The Enchanted Castle (1907)
The Magic City (1910)
The Wonderful Garden (1911)
Wet Magic (1913)
Five of Us and Madeline (1925)
Novels for Adults
The Prophet’s Mantle (1885)
The Red House (1902)
The Incomplete Amorist (1906)
Salome and the Head (1909)
Daphne in Fitzroy Street (1909)
Dormant (1911)
The Incredible Honeymoon (1916)
The Lark (1922)
The Short Story Collections
Something Wrong (1893)
Grim Tales (1893)
Pussy and Doggy Tales (1895)
In Homespun (1896)
Royal Children of English History (1897)
The Children’s Shakespeare (1897)
The Book of Dragons (1901)
Nine Unlikely Tales (1901)
The Literary Sense (1903)
Oswald Bastable and Others (1905)
Man and Maid (1906)
These Little Ones (1909)
Fear (1910)
The Magic World (1912)
To the Adventurous (1923)
Uncollected Short Stories
The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order
The Poetry Collections
Lays and Legends (1886)
All Round the Year (1888)
Landscape and Song (1888)
Lays and Legends: Second Series (1892)
A Pomander of Verse (1895)
Songs of Love and Empire (1898)
The Rainbow and the Rose (1905)
Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism (1908)
Many Voices (1922)
The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Non-Fiction
Wings and the Child (1913)
The Criticism
List of Reviews and Nesbit Related Articles
The Autobiography
My School Days (1897)
