The Railway Children
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781567922615
Hardcover|9781567922615
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Overview
The three children have to move abruptly from a comfortable suburban, middle-class home to a spartan, unheated farmhouse close to a railroad. What the children are not told (but manage to find out) is that their father is in jail for a crime he did not commit. What they can see is that their mother is, to put it mildly, at her wit's end. How the children cope with this unexplained disruption, how they save a train from certain disaster, how they manage to insinuate themselves into the hearts and lives of the community, how they cope with a bewildering array of situations over which they have no control and less understanding is the platform on which Edith Nesbit builds the book (events, not coincidentally, reflective of her own life that took its own turn for the worse when her husband, already ill with smallpox, lost all his money and it became clear she would have to write to survive).
| ISBN-13 | 9781567922615 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1567922619 |
| List Price | $18.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 184 pages |
| Publisher | David R. Godine, Publisher |
| Published On | 2005-03-01 |
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