The Phoenix and the Carpet

by Edith Nesbit

Overview

It's startling enough to have a Phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it reveals you have a magic carpet on the floor. Conceited it may be, but the Phoenix is also good-hearted, and obligingly accompanies the children on their adventures through time and space -- which, magic being what it is, rarely turn out as they were meant ...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596742659
Publisher:	Digireads.com Publishing
Publication date:	05/19/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	1000L (what's this?)
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English writer of children’s literature. Born in Kennington, Nesbit was raised by her mother following the death of her father—a prominent chemist—when she was only four years old. Due to her sister Mary’s struggle with tuberculosis, the family travelled throughout England, France, Spain, and Germany for years. After Mary passed, Edith and her mother returned to England for good, eventually settling in London where, at eighteen, Edith met her future husband, a bank clerk named Hubert Bland. The two—who became prominent socialists and were founding members of the Fabian Society—had a famously difficult marriage, and both had numerous affairs. Nesbit began her career as a poet, eventually turning to children’s literature and publishing around forty novels, story collections, and picture books. A contemporary of such figures of Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame, Nesbit was notable as a writer who pioneered the children’s adventure story in fiction. Among her most popular works are The Railway Children (1906) and The Story of the Amulet (1906), the former of which was adapted into a 1970 film, and the latter of which served as a profound influence on C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. A friend and mentor to George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, Nesbit’s work has inspired and entertained generations of children and adults, including such authors as J.K. Rowling, Noël Coward, and P.L. Travers.

Table of Contents

1	The Egg	1
2	The Topless Tower	29
3	The Queen Cook	56
4	Two Bazaars	84
5	The Temple	110
6	Doing Good	137
7	Mews from Persia	159
8	The Cats, the Cow, and the Burglar	182
9	The Burglar's Bride	203
10	The Hole in the Carpet	225
11	The Beginning of the End	248
12	The End of the End	268

Editorial Reviews

No childhood is complete without The Railway Children.” —The Telegraph

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