Half an amulet bought in a London shop opens the past to four children and a Psammead, and sends them to Babylon, Atlantis, Caesar's camp and a future London where nobody is poor. Nesbit was a founding Fabian and wrote her politics into the last chapter without apologising for it; In its future London children are named Wells, after "the great reformer". It is the funniest of her stories and the only one with a genuine ache in it.
Five Children and It
The Story of the Treasure Seekers : Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
The Phoenix and the Carpet : A Bird Hatched on the Nursery Hearth
The Railway Children : Three Suburban Children Beside a Country Line
The Book of Dragons : Tales of Dragons and the Children Who Faced Them
The Railway Children : Three Suburban Children Beside a Country Line
The Incomplete Amorist : An Art Student in the Latin Quarter
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
John Charrington's Wedding
Fyrbenta hemligheter: Berättelser från djurens värld
Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare : A soothing reading for sleep and relaxation