Download or read book The Wouldbegoods Illustrated written by Edith Nesbit and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods written by Edith Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods written by E. Nesbit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent away to the country after a particularly unruly episode, the well-meaning but wayward Bastable children solemnly vow to reform their behavior. But their grand schemes for great and virtuous deeds lead to just as much mayhem as their ordinary games, and sometimes more.
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods Illustrated written by Edith NESBIT and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Nesbit introduced the six Bastable children in The Treasure Seekers, published in 1899, and brought them back two years later in The Would-Be-Goods. Their adventures arise from the to-and-fro traffic between the adult world which they constantly misinterpret, and the childhood fantasy world which they create to make sense of it.The children devise a series of do-gooding schemes that are pretexts for adventures which usually cause fire, flood, injury or other havoc. On one occasion, they buy a pistol; on another, they are mugged by a vagrant. The Victorians were bolder than us. The Guardian
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods written by Edith Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wouldbegoods (1899) recounts stories about the Bastables, a fictional middle-class family that has fallen on relatively hard times. Sent away to the country after a particularly unruly episode, the well-meaning but wayward Bastable children solemnly vow to reform their behavior. But their grand schemes for great and virtuous deeds lead to just as much mayhem as their ordinary games, and sometimes more. This is the second story in The Bastables Series following The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods by written by Edith Nesbit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wouldbegoods (1899) recounts stories about the Bastables, a fictional middle-class family that has fallen on relatively hard times. This is the second story in The Bastables Series
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Download or read book The Wouldbegoods 1901 by written by E. Nesbit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reginald Bathurst Birch (May 2, 1856 - June 17, 1943) was an English-American artist and illustrator. He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel Little Lord Fauntleroy, which started a craze in juvenile fashion. While his illustrated corpus has eclipsed his other work, he was also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes.Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater London), the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her sister Mary's ill health meant that the family travelled around for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoul�me, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagn�res-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which later inspired The Railway Children (this distinction has also been claimed by the Derbyshire town of New Mills). At eighteen, Nesbit met the bank clerk Hubert Bland in 1877. Seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880, though she did not immediately live with him, as Bland initially continued to live with his mother. Their marriage was a stormy one. Early on Nesbit discovered that another woman believed she was Hubert's fiancee and had also borne him a child. A more serious blow came later when she discovered that her good friend, Alice Hoatson, was pregnant with Hubert's child. She had previously agreed to adopt Hoatson's child and allow Hoatson to live with her as their housekeeper. After she discovered the truth, they quarrelled violently and she suggested that Hoatson and the baby should leave; her husband threatened to leave Edith if she disowned the baby and its mother. Hoatson remained with them as a housekeeper and secretary and became pregnant by Bland again 13 years later. Edith again adopted Hoatson's child. Nesbit's children were Paul Bland (1880-1940), to whom The Railway Children was dedicated; Iris Bland (1881-1950s); Fabian Bland (1885-1900); Rosamund Bland (1886-1950), to whom The Book of Dragons was dedicated; and John Bland (1898-1971) to whom The House of Arden was dedicated. Her son Fabian died aged 15 after a tonsil operation; Nesbit dedicated a number of books to him: Five Children and It and its sequels, as well as The Story of the Treasure Seekers and its sequels. Nesbit's adopted daughter Rosamund collaborated with her on the book Cat Tales....
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods written by E. Nesbit and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE JUNGLE THE WOULDBEGOODS BILL'S TOMBSTONE THE TOWER OF MYSTERY THE WATER-WORKS THE CIRCUS BEING BEAVERS; OR, THE YOUNG EXPLORERS (ARCTIC OR OTHERWISE) THE HIGH-BORN BABE HUNTING THE FOX THE SALE OF ANTIQUITIES THE BENEVOLENT BAR THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS THE DRAGON'S TEETH; OR, ARMY-SEED ALBERT'S UNCLE'S GRANDMOTHER; OR, THE LONG-LOST
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods Illustrated written by E. NESBIT and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all starts with the best of intentions. Having been sent away to Albert's uncle's house in the country, to get them away from the Blackheath mansion of their "Indian uncle" after a particularly disastrous game of Jungle Book, the six Bastable children find all kinds of wild and woolly things to do in the Kentish farm country. Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noël, and H. O. are joined by Denny and Daisy Foulkes, the children of their father's business associate, in a "Society of Wouldbegoods" that hopes to shape up their character by doing good deeds. But their childish way of looking at things, and their perverse inability to "mind their own business," leads them to be rather naughtier than otherwise! What good works do the wouldbegoods try? They try to erect a tombstone to memorialize a neighbor-lady's son, shot down on a faraway battlefield. They fall prey to a scoundrel who locks them in a tower and demands money of them. They wreak havoc on the waterways by tampering with a river lock, damming a river (while playing at being beavers), and trying to control an indoors flood. They "adopt" a baby seemingly lost or abandoned. They get in trouble over a dead fox, a soft drink stand, and (my favorite chapter) an attempt to have a circus using untrained farm animals as talent. There's also a silly military adventure, a make-believe pilgrimage, and a bit of romantic matchmaking to round off the summer.
Download or read book The Story of the Treasure Seekers Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune written by Edith Nesbit and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I think when you have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking. This novel, the first in what is often called the "Bastable Saga" begins the story of these six children - Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius Bastable. When their mother dies and their father's business fails, the children embark on a series of adventures. Says Oswald (the book's narrator) at the start: "I'll tell you what, we must go and seek for treasure: it is always what you do to restore the fallen fortunes of your House."
Download or read book The Complete Bastable Family Series Illustrated Edition written by Edith Nesbit and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Treasure Seekers tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family. In 'The Wouldbegoods', Dora, Oswald, Alice, Dicky, Noel and H.O. are going to the countryside with Daisy and Denny to live with their Indian uncle. Instead of looking for treasure to "restore their family's fortunes" they are trying to become good. The girls form a society and call it 'The Society of The Wouldbegoods'. The boys aren't too keen on the idea. The New Treasure Seekers starts with the Christmas celebration and children's memories of the first Christmas after Mrs. Bastable died. After that the Bastable children start their journey to Miss Sandal's house by the seaside. The fun begins as the kids innocently get themselves into one adventure after another. Oswald Bastable and Others is a collection of short stories. It contains four stories which complete the history of the Bastable family: An Object of Value and Virtue The Runaways The Arsenicators The Enchanceried House Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author of world famous books for children (including novels, collections of stories, poems and picture books). Nesbit also wrote for adults, including novels, short stories and four collections of horror stories.
Download or read book THE BASTABLE FAMILY Complete Series Illustrated written by Edith Nesbit and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THE BASTABLE FAMILY – Complete Series (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Story of the Treasure Seekers tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family. In 'The Wouldbegoods', Dora, Oswald, Alice, Dicky, Noel and H.O. are going to the countryside with Daisy and Denny to live with their Indian uncle. Instead of looking for treasure to "restore their family's fortunes" they are trying to become good. The girls form a society and call it 'The Society of The Wouldbegoods'. The boys aren't too keen on the idea. The New Treasure Seekers starts with the Christmas celebration and children's memories of the first Christmas after Mrs. Bastable died. After that the Bastable children start their journey to Miss Sandal's house by the seaside. The fun begins as the kids innocently get themselves into one adventure after another. Oswald Bastable and Others is a collection of short stories. It contains four stories which complete the history of the Bastable family: An Object of Value and Virtue The Runaways The Arsenicators The Enchanceried House Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author of world famous books for children (including novels, collections of stories, poems and picture books). Nesbit also wrote for adults, including novels, short stories and four collections of horror stories.
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods written by E (Edith) Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wouldbegoods, a sequel to The Treasure Seekers, reacquaints us with the six Bastable children: Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noël and H. O. Again, the story is told by you-may-not-know-who, and the children find all sorts of ways in which to amuse themselves in the country during the summer holidays. 'Children are like jam, ' says the Indian uncle, 'all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop eh, what?' Well, the children do their best, but they do get themselves into trouble right from the beginning, when their latest brainwave is to create a jungle in the garden
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods by E Nesbitt written by Reginald Bathurst Birch and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent away to the country after a particularly unruly episode, the well-meaning but wayward Bastable children solemnly vow to reform their behavior. But their grand schemes for great and virtuous deeds lead to just as much mayhem as their ordinary games, and sometimes more.
Download or read book The Wouldbegoods written by E. NESBIT and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wouldbegoods, a sequel to The Treasure Seekers, reacquaints us with the six Bastable children: Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noël and H. O. Again, the story is told by you-may-not-know-who, and the children find all sorts of ways in which to amuse themselves in the country during the summer holidays. 'Children are like jam,' says the Indian uncle, 'all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop eh, what?' Well, the children do their best, but they do get themselves into trouble right from the beginning, when their latest brainwave is to create a jungle in the garden
Download or read book New Treasure Seekers written by Edith Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
