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Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland) (1858-1924) was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the androgynous 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. She... read more

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THAT going to the seaside was the very beginning of everything,- only it seemed as though it were going to be a beginning without an end, like the roads on the Sussex downs which look like roads and then look like paths, and then turn into sheep-tracks, and then are just grass and furze and bushes and tottergrass and harebells and rabbits and chalk.

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Sabrina Fair
The Captive
The Rescue
Gratitude
Consequences
The Mermaids Home
The Skies are Falling
The Water-War
The Book People
The Under Folk
The Peacemaker
The End

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  1. Edith Nesbit (Author)
  2. H. R. Millar

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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1913
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8

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