The Magic World (Puffin Classics)
Nesbit, E.
ISBN 10: 0140367659 ISBN 13: 9780140367652
Published by Puffin, 1996
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Synopsis:
Twelve short stories about the fantastic adventures of children who become accidentally involved with the forces of magic
About the Author:
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.
She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of fiction for children.
Nesbit published approximately 40 books for children, including novels, collections of stories and picture books. Collaborating with others, she published almost as many more.
According to her biographer Julia Briggs, Nesbit was "the first modern writer for children": "(Nesbit) helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels." Briggs also credits Nesbit with having invented the children's adventure story. Noël Coward was a great admirer of hers and, in a letter to an early biographer Noel Streatfeild, wrote "she had an economy of phrase, and an unparalleled talent for evoking hot summer days in the English countryside."
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Magic World (Puffin Classics)
Publisher: Puffin
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good