Edith Nesbit

El maravilloso paisaje de una finca de verano en West Country, al suroeste de Inglaterra, sorprende a tres hermanos, Gerald, James y Kathleen, que pasan sus vacaciones allí. Mientras juegan a explorar en las inmediaciones realizan una gran hallazgo que parece mágico: un castillo encantado rodeado por un lago, arboledas, estatuas de mármol, enormes torres… En ese lugar, más propio de los cuentos de hadas, hallan a una princesa durmiente en un laberinto. Ella casi les convence de que se encuentran en un lugar mágico, con tesoros y un anillo que procura la invisibilidad. Todo parece una broma de esa extraña niña que han conocido en el campo y que pronto les desvelará su verdadera identidad. Pero jugando con la magia del anillo los niños descubrirán que no todo es fruto de su imaginación…

"Cavando en un hoyo de grava en un caluroso día de verano, cinco niños descubren “eso”: una criatura gruñona con ojos como de caracol, orejas como de murciélago y un cuerpo rechoncho cubierto de pelo

Classic Tales es una colección que reúne algunos de los relatos más apreciados de los grandes autores de las literaturas anglófonas, y los adapta a las competencias lingu ísticas de los jóvenes lectores hispanoparlantes. Una oportunidad para leer en su lengua y entender en toda su dimension la obra de autores inolvidables como Oscar Wilde, Edith Nesbit o L. Frank Baum. Incluye CD audio con la narracion integra.Nivel B1-PET

Cuando Padre desaparece de forma inesperada, y en extrañas circunstancias, Roberta, Peter y Phyllis y su madre tienen que abandonar su feliz y holgada vida familiar en Londres para ir a vivir entre estrecheces a una pequeña casita -llamada Tres Chimeneas- en una aldea en el campo. Alli los niños encuentran entretenimiento en una cercana estacion de ferrocarril, y hacen amistad con el mismisimo Jefe de Estacion, con Perks el Mozo o con el intrigante Anciano Caballero que les saluda puntualmente desde el tren de las 9,15. Pero no logran olvidar el misterio que ha producido tantos cambios en su vida. Madre no quiere decir nada y los chicos saben que es mejor no preguntar pero ¿donde esta Padre? ¿Volvera algun dia? Berenice publica por primera vez en español Los chicos del ferrocarril (The Railway Children), un clasico de la literatura juvenil en ingles que no ha dejado de editarse desde 1906. Considerado entre lo mejor de la obra de E. Nesbit, una magistral escritora, pionera del genero infantil y juvenil, que ha ejercido influencia directa en P. L. Travers (autor de Mary Poppins), Edward Eager, Diana Wynne Jones o J. K. Rowling. C. S. Lewis ha escrito largamente sobre la influencia de Nesbit en su saga de Narnia, y hoy esta considerada en Reino Unido como la"abuela de Harry Potter"."La autora con la que mas me identifico es E. Nesbit. Es fabulosa, hizo geniales y graciosas historias de fantasia. Sus niños son muy reales y fue totalmente innovadora en su tiempo."J.K. Rowling ¿Que libros leia cuando era niña? Pocos. Una vez encontre uno de E. Nesbit en una biblioteca y ya nunca deje de buscarlos por todas partes... Diana Wynne Jones, autora de El castillo ambulante"Junto a Lewis Carroll, E. Nesbit es la mejor de los fabulistas ingleses que han escrito sobre los niños (para niños y para adultos), y como Carroll fue capaz de crear un mundo magico enteramente propio. Gore Vidal en The New York Times Review En cuanto a mis libros para niños, los empece en la tradicion de E. Nesbit. Sin su The Aunt and Amabel no hubiera empezado con las tierras de Narnia. C.S. Lewis

Edith Nesbits The Railway Children is a childrens classic that tells the story of a family whose father, who works as a diplomat, is falsely accused of communicating secret information to the Russians. When the father is taken away, the family has to move to a modest house in the country situated near a railway station. It is then that start the adventures of the three children, Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis (Phil). They fall in innocent love with the moving trains and spend much time waving to the smiling passengers so that they have ended up befriending the station porter as well as an old gentleman who takes the same morning train every day. The three children prove to be very helpful and courageous and they gradually win the hearts of the adults around them. The old gentleman decides to help the little children. He eventually succeeds in absolving their father from guilt and the family is happily reunited. The narrative then tells about their family life and how they take care of two of their guests, Mr Szczepansky a Russian exile who has to flee the Tsar and the old gentlemans grandson, Jim, who has broken his leg in a tunnel.

Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman y Edith Nesbit crearon los cimientos del terror moderno, en especial, el género de casas embrujadas, de fantasmas y entes malignos. El velo negro, El cuento de la vieja niñera, La casa de los espíritus, El papel amarillo y La boda de John Charrington, son cinco relatos sorprendentes y escalofriantes que no dejarán al lector indiferente. El miedo evoluciona, se transforma, se adapta a los tiempos en su apariencia, pero hunde sus raíces en lo más profundo de nuestro inconsciente.

Edmund was a boy.The people who did not like him said that he was the most tiresome boy that ever lived, but his grandmother and his other friends said that he had an inquiring mind.And his granny often added that he was the best of boys.But she was very kind and very old.Edmund loved to find out about things.Perhaps you will think that in that case he was constant in his attendance atschool, since there, if anywhere, we may learn whatever there is to be learned. But Edmund did not want to learn things: He wanted to find things out, which is quite different.His inquiring mind led him to take clocks to pieces to see what madethem go, to take locks off doors to see what made them stick.It was Edmund who cut open the India rubber ball to see whatmade it bounce, and he never did see, any more than you didwhen you tried the same experiment.

Edith Nesbits "The Railway Children" is one of the best-loved family stories of all the classics and it is a perfect demonstration of why a safety net is so important. "The Railway Children" is a straightforward narrative of what happens when a family is disrupted by the absence of one of its members, and Nesbit uses the disruption to examine the responsibilities that people have to one another and themselves within the English class structure. The book conveys the basic sense that people and the world are largely good; although the childrens father has been wrongfully imprisoned, justice does prevail in the end.When Roberta, Peter and Phyilliss father is arrested their life is turned upside down. The children move to the country and the railway that runs nearby becomes their greatest source of adventure. One day, they come up with a brilliant plan to make use of the friends theyve made through the train to prove their fathers innocence and bring him back safely. Will it work?

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted childrens author . . . "He asked idle questions: she answered them with a conscientious tremulous truthfulness that showed to him as the most finished art. Betty told him nervously and in words ill-chosen everything that he asked to know, but all the while the undercurrent of questions rang strong within her -- When is he to teach me? Where? How? -- so that when at last there was left but the bare fifteen minutes needed to get one home in time for the midday dinner she said abruptly: And when shall I see you again?

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted childrens author . . . "He asked idle questions: she answered them with a conscientious tremulous truthfulness that showed to him as the most finished art. Betty told him nervously and in words ill-chosen everything that he asked to know, but all the while the undercurrent of questions rang strong within her -- When is he to teach me? Where? How? -- so that when at last there was left but the bare fifteen minutes needed to get one home in time for the midday dinner she said abruptly: And when shall I see you again?

nice, moody, horror story. Two best friends are bedevilled by a third friend, who haunts them from grade school to adulthood. He seems to intuit things he cant know, and always tells the truth. One friend escapes to India to get away, the other stays in England. When the escapee returns, he finds his friend shattered and half-mad. Why, is the story.

"""Oh! my dear, my dear, how shall I pass the hours till I hold you again?""No thought, then, of my whole lifes completion and consummation being a dream.I staggered up to my room, fell across my bed, and slept heavily and dreamlessly. When I awoke it was high noon. Mildred and her mother were coming to lunch.I remembered, at one oclock, Mildred coming and her existence.Now indeed the dream began.With a penetrating sense of the futility of any action apart from her, I gave the necessary orders for the reception of my guests. When Mildred and her mother came I received them with cordiality; but my genial phrases all seemed to be someone elses. My voice sounded like an echo; my heart was not there.Still, the situation was not intolerable, until the hour when afternoon tea was served in the drawing-room. Mildred and mother kept the conversational pot boiling with"

After being sent to the country "to learn to be good", the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.

When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forward to a pleasant, pastoral life of domestic bliss. The husband, a practical man, dismisses the superstitious maids tale of an ancient curse about the local churchs marble statues who come to life each year on All Saints Eve to wreak revenge. But then, on the fateful night, he discovers that the stone slabs on which the knights rest are empty. Is his young bride in peril?

To Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, the house in the country promises a summer of freedom and play. But when they accidently uncover an accident Psammead--or Sand-fairy--who has the power to make wishes come true, they find themselves having the holiday of a lifetime, sharing one thrilling adventure after another.Asleep since dinosaurs roamed the earth, the ill-tempered, odd--looking Psammead --with his spider-shaped body, bats ears, and snails eyes --grudgingly agrees to grant the children one wish per day. Soon, though the children discover that their wishes have a tendancy to turn out quite differnetly than expected. Whatever they wish whether its to fly like a bird, live in a mighty castle, or have an immense fortune --something goes terribly wrong, hilariously wrong.Then an accidental wish has horrible consequences, and the children are faced with a difficult choice: to let an innoncent manbe charged with a crime or to lose for all time their gift of magical wishes. Five Children and It is one of E. Nesbits most beloved tales of enchantment.

The figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other childrens classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able to create genuinely chilling narratives in which the returning dead feature strongly. Sadly, these stories have been neglected for many years, but now, at last, they are back in print. In this wonderful collection of eerie, flesh-creeping yarns, we encounter love that transcends the grave, reanimated corpses, vampiric vines, vengeful ghosts and other dark delights to make you feel fearful. These vintage spooky stories, tinged with horror, are told in a bold, forthright manner that makes them seem as fresh and unsettling as todays headlines.

An invisible princess, a magic ring, and more adventures than you could dream of. This is what Gerald, Kathleen and Jimmy find when they stumble upon a mysterious castle. At first it all appears to be a lark. But the children soon discover they need all their bravery and ingenuity to contend with the castles supernatural forces

The storys title character is a man who somehow always seems to get what he wants. John makes up his mind to marry May Forster, the prettiest young woman in the village. After John asks her to marry him several times, May finally agrees. John says that his love for May is so great that he would come back from the dead if that was what she wanted him to do. Two days before his wedding, John leaves to visit his seriously ill godfather. May begs him not to go because she has a feeling that something bad will happen. John reassures her that nothing will prevent him from arriving at his wedding on time

The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The three children, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, find amusement in watching the trains on the nearby railway line and waving to the passengers.

" He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace. It was not quite like a country lane, for it had a pavement and lamp-posts, but it was not a bad place for a meeting all the same: and farther up, towards the cemetery, it was really quite rural, and almost pretty, especially in twilight But twilight had long deepened into the night, and still he waited. He loved her, and he was engaged to be married to her, with the complete disapproval of every reasonable person who had been consulted. And this half-clandestine meeting was tonight to take the place of the grudgingly sanctioned weekly interview-because a certain rich uncle was visiting at her house, and her mother was not the woman to acknowledge to a moneyed uncle, who might "go off" any day, a match so deeply ineligible as hers with him. "