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Laburnum Cottage—Philip and Helen's home at the start of the book. The Grange—the home of Helen's new husband, and her step-daughter Lucy. Polistarchia—the country of the Magic City. Within Polistarchia: Polistopolis—the Magic City of the title, capital of Polistarchia. The Land of the Dwellers by the Sea—a region of Polistarchia.
The Story of the Treasure Seekers was the first novel for children by E. Nesbit. This and her later novels exerted considerable influence on subsequent English children's literature, most notably Arthur Ransome's [citation needed] books and C. S. Lewis' [3] The Chronicles of Narnia.
E. Nesbit (Edith Nesbit) (1858–1924), English author and poet; Evelyn Nesbit (1884–1967), American artists' model and chorus girl, and a central figure in a notorious murder trial; Jamar Nesbit (born 1976), American football player; Pinna Nesbit (1896–1950), Canadian silent film actress; William Nesbit (thief) (1899–1983), American ...
The Magic World is a collection of twelve short stories by E. Nesbit. It was first published in book form in 1912 by Macmillan and Co. Ltd., with illustrations by H. R. Millar and Gerald Spencer Pryse. The stories, previously printed in magazines such as Blackie's Children's Annual, are typical of Nesbit's arch, ironic, clever fantasies for ...
Like Nesbit's The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent.The five children (Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, Hilary, known as "the Lamb") are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.
Published in 1907, the book has received a number of editions over the later years. Nesbit's collection presents a reworked version of the tales, rewritten to suit what Nesbit considered to be child's mentality and interpretative skills. The tales are sometimes prefaced with the opening "Once upon a time".
Nesbit was the son of Jacob Nesbit, farmer, of Long Benton, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was baptised on 3 May 1778.In the preface to his ‘Arithmetic’ he states that he was educated ‘under the direction of some of the first commercial and mathematical preceptors in the kingdom,’ and that, having a decided predilection for teaching, he became a schoolmaster at an early age.
The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb.