The Railway Children (Award Essential Classics) - Nesbit, E.
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After their father is mysteriously abducted by strangers, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis move with their mother from their comfortable city home to 'Three Chimneys', a tiny cottage in the countryside, next to a railway station. Soon the children find enough to amuse themselves with at the station, befriending everybody from the porter and the stationmaster to an old gentleman who waves at them from the 9.15 each day. But the mystery of their father's disappearance looms large over them. Where is Father? And ho9w does the old gentleman hold the key to the mystery? Told n simple, lucid prose,…mehr

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After their father is mysteriously abducted by strangers, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis move with their mother from their comfortable city home to 'Three Chimneys', a tiny cottage in the countryside, next to a railway station. Soon the children find enough to amuse themselves with at the station, befriending everybody from the porter and the stationmaster to an old gentleman who waves at them from the 9.15 each day. But the mystery of their father's disappearance looms large over them. Where is Father? And ho9w does the old gentleman hold the key to the mystery? Told n simple, lucid prose, Nesbit's classic is one of the most endearing coming-of-age stories ever written.
Autorenporträt
Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English poet and author. She is most well known for her children's literature, publishing more than 60 such books under the pen name E. Nesbit. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, which had a significant influence on the Labour Party and British politics in general.