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"When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true—such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening."
~ E. Nesbit, born today, 1858.
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If there’s a solstice or an equinox approaching, you know it’s time for another free ebook in my Grammaticus Free Library series!
The latest one contains a short ghost story by Edith Nesbit, "Uncle Abraham's Romance."
A lonely old man remembers a series of unusual encounters with a mysterious woman. Was she just a product of his imagination or perhaps a visitor from the beyond?
If you like ghost stories, you’ll enjoy this one!
https://grammaticus.blog/2025/06/18/free-ebook-uncle-abrahams-romance/
You can find all the previously released titles here: https://grammaticus.blog/library/
#learningenglish #englishvocabulary #EnglishTeacher #englishliterature #ENesbit #shortstory #ghoststories
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Calling all those who signed up to The Storybook Sock Box - The Railway Children - it's time for the big reveal!
Introducing 'The Railway Children' - a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist sock yarn along with a contrasting 25g mini skein perfect for heels, toes and cuffs.
Included in the box is a copy of the book, a postcard, a pin badge and a notebook.
Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!
#yarn #knitting #crochet #indieyarn #indiedyer #handdyedyarn #yarnclub #books #reading #TheRailwayChildren #storybook #ENesbit #socks #sockknitting #sockyarn
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I just watched this year's Christmas Eve ghost story. A bit late I know! It was very spooky and atmospheric.
A Ghost Story for Christmas, Woman of Stone: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026ds3 via @bbciplayer
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We also have a rare early edition of #EdithNesbit's The Would-Be-Goods, vol 2 of the Bastables Series, printed circa 1901!
Check out the beautiful #illustrations in this classic of English #childrensLiteraturehttps://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=632234903
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Did you know #ENesbit had a very turbulent life & knew pretty much everyone in cultural & #socialist circles in late #Victorian & #EdwardianAge?
Find out more in 2 excellent #EdithNesbit #biographies:
@EleanorFitzsimons's 2019 one,
& the classic 1987 #biography by Julia Briggs! -
Free ebooks by E. Nesbit. The Enchanted Castle is one of my favorite books of all time.
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“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more
#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology
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I'll give this a go too.... #bookstodon
Seven favourite authors...
#MonicaDickens
#JohnLeCarre
#ENesbit
#LenDeighton
#JohnGalsworthy
#AJDevlin
#ColinDexter -
I could extend my list of favourite authors by listing those deceased authors for whom, if an authenticated "lost manuscript" surfaced, I'd be first in the line to buy:
#JaneAusten
#CharlesDickens
#DianaWynneJones
#ENesbit
#GeorgeOrwell
#DorothyLSayers
#CliffordSimak
#JackVance