The Railway Children With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0194631990
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Children - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Edith Nesbit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. 'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line. But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back?

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780194791281
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 3: The Railway Children written by Edith Nesbit and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for younger learners Word count 9,295

Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494264376
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Children written by E. Nesbit and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-23 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits Oswald Barron, who had a deep affection for Nesbit, with having provided the plot. The story concerns a family who move to "Three Chimneys", a house near the railway, after the father, who works at the Foreign office, is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The three children, Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis (Phil), find amusement in watching the trains on the nearby railway line and waving to the passengers. They become friendly with Albert Perks, the station porter, and with the Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 down train. He is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited. The family take care of the Russian exile, Mr Szczepansky, who came to England looking for his family (later located) and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman, who suffers a broken leg in a tunnel. The theme of an innocent man being falsely imprisoned for espionage and finally vindicated might have been influenced by the Dreyfus Affair, which was a prominent worldwide news item a few years before the book was written. And the Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing "a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them" and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780194227292
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Children written by Edith Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet.

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783526520528
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The railway children written by Edith Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Vicary
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0194631419
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brontë Story - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Tim Vicary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man’s wife, the children’s mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontës of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories – Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . . . But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.

Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509848134
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Children written by E. Nesbit and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of blissful independence and adventure, Edith Nesbit’s beloved children’s classic is a timeless story of joy, hope and the importance of family. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of The Railway Children features the beautiful illustrations of C. E. Brock, and an afterword by editor and publisher Anna South. Peter, Phyllis and Roberta’s lives change overnight when their father is taken away by two strangers. They move from the comfort of their London home to a small country cottage, and are left to their own devices while their mother writes day and night to support the family. But with their new poverty comes more freedom than they ever dreamed of, and the railway line at the bottom of their garden offers the trio a world of new friendships that will change their lives forever.

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540401908
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Children (Include Audio Book) written by Edith Nesbit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story opens with the description of three little Londoners who enjoy an ordinary, peaceful life in the city with visits to the Zoo and Madame Tussauds. They have a charming, well-appointed home and loving parents. Things take a sudden turn for the worst when Father suddenly leaves after receiving mysterious "bad news." Mother decides equally suddenly to move with the children to the country-side and here begins their adventure with the railways. They befriend a strange Old Gentleman who invariably travels on the 9.15 train from near their home and get drawn into bizarre and dangerous events...

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788497890571
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Children written by Edith Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN 13 : 0192789333
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Children's Classics: The Railway Children written by Edith Nesbit and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford Children's Classic features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Onjali Q Raúf, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more . . . When their father is taken away, Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis are uprooted from their comfortable home in London. Though they miss their old life they soon find a newfound love of the railway, and it becomes a source of great adventure and hope.