author
E. (Edith) Nesbit
1858–1924
Best known for blending everyday family life with sudden magic and adventure, this classic author helped shape modern children's fantasy. Her stories, including The Railway Children and Five Children and It, still feel lively, funny, and warmly human.
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 Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet
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
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
Many Voices: Poems
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Book of Dragons
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Wet Magic
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Incomplete Amorist
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Nine Unlikely Tales
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Five Children and It
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Oswald Bastable and Others
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
All Round the Year
by E. (Edith) Nesbit, Caris Brooke
The Rainbow and the Rose
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Songs of love and empire
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
In Homespun
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Magic World
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Wings and the Child; Or, The Building of Magic Cities
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Grim Tales
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Harding's luck
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Literary Sense
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
The Wonderful Garden; or, The Three Cs
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Royal Children of English History
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Pussy and Doggy Tales
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Man and Maid
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
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, E. Nesbit published as a children’s writer, novelist, and poet, and became one of the most influential voices in classic children’s literature. She wrote stories that felt fresh for their time: children spoke and behaved like real children, and extraordinary things arrived right in the middle of ordinary life.
She is especially remembered for books such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Alongside her writing, she was involved in socialist politics and was a co-founder of the Fabian Society, showing a public life that was as energetic as her literary one.
Nesbit died in 1924, but her work has lasted because of its humor, emotional warmth, and sense of wonder. Many later writers of children’s fantasy have been seen as owing something to the path she opened.