Toronto: Scholastic Canada. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0590740008 . 183 p. 25 cm. Sound and square binding. Grey illustrated paper-covered boards. Virtually no discernible wear. Dust jacket has a bit of light rubbing. Not price-clipped. Soft coloured illustration after water-colours by Dinah Dryhurst. The classic story of the three children who move to the country into a house that has a railway running along its back garden. .

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Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924), was a mischievous, tomboyish child who grew up to be an unconventional adult. She and her husband were founder members of the socialist Fabian Society and their home became a centre for socialist and literary discussion. Their friends included some of the time’s greatest writers and thinkers, including George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells. Everything about Edith showed her as a woman trying to break out of the mould demanded by English society at the time – she expressed her individuality through her clothes, hairstyle, lifestyle and her habit of speaking forcefully on almost any subject. She lived her socialism and late in life her charitable deeds brought her close to bankrupcy. E. Nesbit – she always used the plain initial for her writing and was sometimes thought to be a man – started to write for children after years of successful writing for adult magazines. She was asked to write about her childhood but instead of facts chose to describe her happy girlhood in fiction. The result was books still read today, firm bestsellers for decades. She was brilliant at combining real-life situations with elements of fantasy and humour. Films –such as The Railway Children - have kept her stories in the public eye and her magical fantasies, including Five Children and It , continue to delight each new generation of children.

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Bookseller: Homeward Bound Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 720
Title: The Railway Children
Author: Nesbit, Edith
Illustrator: Dinah Dryhurst
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
ISBN 10: 0590740008
ISBN 13: 9780590740005
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1991
Keywords: 0590740008
Bookseller catalogs: Children's - Classics;

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Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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