author
E. (Edith) Nesbit
1858–1924
Best known for The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, this inventive English writer helped shape modern children's fantasy with stories that feel warm, funny, and startlingly real. She also wrote poetry and adult fiction, bringing the same lively imagination to a wide range of work.
37 Audiobooks
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
by E. (Edith) Nesbit, William Shakespeare
Five Children and It
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Railway Children
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Magic City
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Many Voices: Poems
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
Wet Magic
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Oswald Bastable and Others
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Book of Dragons
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Five Children and It
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Incomplete Amorist
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Nine Unlikely Tales
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
All Round the Year
by E. (Edith) Nesbit, Caris Brooke
Songs of love and empire
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Rainbow and the Rose
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Wings and the Child; Or, The Building of Magic Cities
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Literary Sense
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Magic World
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Grim Tales
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
In Homespun
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Wonderful Garden; or, The Three Cs
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Lays and Legends (Second Series)
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The House of Arden: A Story for Children
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Royal Children of English History
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Pussy and Doggy Tales
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Harding's luck
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Man and Maid
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Incredible Honeymoon
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Wouldbegoods
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Prophet's Mantle
by E. (Edith) Nesbit, Hubert Bland
About the author
Born in London in 1858, Edith Nesbit published as E. Nesbit and became one of the most influential writers of children's literature in English. She wrote more than forty books for young readers, and her best-known works include The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, Five Children and It, and The Railway Children. Her stories stood out for bringing magic and adventure into everyday family life in a way that felt fresh and natural.
Alongside her fiction, she wrote poetry and work for adults, and she was also involved in socialist circles in Britain. Her life was often unconventional, and that mix of idealism, humor, and resilience seems to echo through her books, which are full of energetic children, domestic detail, and sudden wonder.
She died in 1924 in Kent, but her work has lasted remarkably well. Readers and later writers have continued to admire her for helping open the door to the kind of children's fantasy where ordinary children step straight into extraordinary events.