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E. (Edith) Nesbit

1858–1924

Best known for blending everyday family life with adventure and magic, this pioneering English writer helped shape modern children’s fiction. Her stories, including The Railway Children and Five Children and It, still feel lively, funny, and warm.

40 Audiobooks

The Railway Children

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

by E. (Edith) Nesbit, William Shakespeare

The Book of Dragons

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Five Children and It

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Phoenix and the Carpet

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Enchanted Castle

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Magic City

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Grim Tales

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Nine Unlikely Tales

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Story of the Amulet

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Magic World

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Five Children and It

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Five Children and It

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, 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, 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

Pussy and Doggy Tales

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Oswald Bastable and Others

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Enchanted Castle

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Royal Children of English History

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Wet Magic

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Man and Maid

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The House of Arden: A Story for Children

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

Harding's luck

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Many Voices: Poems

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Incredible Honeymoon

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Wonderful Garden; or, The Three Cs

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

All Round the Year

by Caris Brooke, E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Wouldbegoods

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Rainbow and the Rose

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Incomplete Amorist

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Many Voices

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Lays and Legends (Second Series)

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The Prophet's Mantle

by E. (Edith) Nesbit, Hubert Bland

In Homespun

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Songs of love and empire

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

About the author

Born in 1858, she wrote as E. Nesbit and became one of the most influential children’s authors of her time. Her books often brought ordinary children into vividly imagined adventures, and that mix of realism, humor, and fantasy helped set a pattern many later writers followed.

She is especially remembered for classics such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Alongside her fiction, she also wrote poetry and was active in political life, helping found the Fabian Society.

Nesbit died in 1924, but her work has remained widely loved for generations. Her stories are often praised for their lively dialogue, believable child characters, and the sense that wonder might be waiting just beyond everyday life.