by E. Nesbit · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853261077
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«The Railway Children» is the children's novel by E. Nesbit, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis watch their father disappear after he leaves with two strangers. With their mother they leave London for a country house beside the railway line, where she writes to support them. The children become regulars of the railway: they greet the Old Gentleman, befriend the porter Perks and have adventures that include saving a train.
The work was originally published in 1906 and this edition is part of the Wordsworth Children's Classics series, with the complete unabridged text.
Aimed at readers aged 9 to 12, within classic children's and young adult fiction.
Edith Nesbit was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.
