#e nesbit

[dandelionjack]

my letterboxd review of the new bbc ghost story for christmas :)

[richaldis]

Why Mark Gatiss is good for tv

[helmstone]

Woman of Stone — new horror for Christmas

The holiday season has to mean at least one horror on the BBC, and recent years have meant a Mark Gatiss production. This season it’s Woman of Stone, an E Nesbit story. In her final days, author Edith Nesbit recounts the chilling tale of newlywed Victorians Jack and Laura. The couple are settling into a small cottage in a quiet village when their idyll is overshadowed by the superstitious…

[devoursjohnlock]

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Woman of Stone – A Ghost Story for Christmas

"In her final days, E. Nesbit (whose Man-size in Marble this drama is adapted from) recounts the chilling tale of newlywed Victorians Jack and Laura. As they settle into a small cottage in a quiet village, they find their idyll overshadowed by the superstitious warnings of their housekeeper, regaling the legend of the two marble tomb effigies who are said to rise one night each year." (continues very briefly here, but with a bit of a spoiler)

If anyone wants to read ahead, this instalment of A Ghost Story for Christmas is based on E. Nesbit's 1887 short story Man-size in Marble, available to read here). Gatiss has said repeatedly that it was the first ghost story he ever read, and it was at the top of his recommendations in a recent Q&A on horror for the Darlington Trust.

[victusinveritas]

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

There is no moral to this story, except…. But no—there is no moral.

-- E. Nesbit. "The Mixed Mine" (Short Story) from The Magic World (Anthology). 1924 Edition; first published by Macmillan & Co., Limited in 1912.

(This is, in my not-so-humble opinion, one of the best closing lines in all of children's literature)

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Magic World, online (with illustrations)

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[kaggsy59]

"...no explanation, no logical coherence..." @katehandheld #ENesbit

The indie publisher Handheld Press has made regular appearances on the Ramblings, as I’m a real fan of their beautifully produced books. As well as reprinted fiction, they’ve also released anthologies, biographies, nature writing, fantasy/sci fi and crime titles, to name just a few. Sadly, Handheld is coming to a close later this year, which is a huge shame; but they’re certainly going out with a…

[daily-rayless]

Fan art for "The Princess and the Hedge-pig", one of many original fairy tales by the brilliant early twentieth-century fantasy author E Nesbit. So many of Nesbit's fairy tales are fun and funny and clever, but Hedge-pig (just another name for a hedgehog) has long been my favorite. Our heroine, the Princess Ozyliza, who can fight and shoot as well as any Prince Charming, is ousted from her throne. Her enemies attempt to assassinate her with a barrage of arrows. But her childhood friend, a strapping young baker's apprentice, throws himself in the line of fire, is repeatedly impaled in the back, and, to save his life, a good fairy turns him into a hedgehog. From there, they set out to win back her kingdom.

Nesbit often writes with an eye for humor, so I wanted to capture a bit of silliness in this.

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Series info:

Book 1 of Five Children

Book 2: The Phoenix and the Carpet

Book 3: The Story of the Amulet

[godzilla-reads]

🧊 The Ice Dragon by E. Nesbit and Carole Grey

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

In this story for children, George and Jane adventure to the North Pole when curious about the Northern Lights, but soon find a dragon and wicked seal-skin dwarves.

A fun and imaginative story about the North Pole that feels perfect for the low temperatures at the moment. I wish the dragon played a bigger part in the story, since the story IS named after him, but I thought this was still entertaining to read.

[siena-sevenwits]

I think I'm going to cry - I'm on the last chapter of Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders. It so, so meaningful to me, I also doubt I've ever seen a modern sequel to a classic work that really worked, and added something new that truly was worth adding. I don't know that other people would have the same experience of it - my journey with this book was really shaped by my childhood reading and a few things I've been through more recently - but that's okay.

And now I need to post pictures from the dear 1991 BBC production (the only good screen version of the first book.) I am doing this to put off finishing the book...

[vintage-archive]

The Railway Children, illustrated by Pamela Kay (1990)

[earhartsease]

E Nesbit, who wrote The Railway Children in 1901, also wrote a collection of children's stories about dragons, the last one of which was called The Last of the Dragons, and it opens with this very British scorn of the US

Of course you know that dragons were once as common as motor-omnibuses are now, and almost as dangerous. But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from. And at last there were no more dragons in France and no more dragons in Germany, or Spain, or Italy, or Russia. There were some left in China, and are still, but they are cold and bronzy, and there were never any, of course, in America.

anyway Does The Dragon Die? no, it's okay

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

She had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

E. Nesbit, The Railway Children