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The Railway Children

Edith Nesbit

The Railway Children

Paper book: €21.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1906
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
441
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Children's Literature, Adventure
Moods
Feel comforted, Escape it all
Translated from
English

Book summary

One evening, two gentlemen come to see Father, who leaves with them and does not come back. His three children, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, leave London with their mother for a little house in the country, near a railway line. Every morning they wave at the passing train, and an old gentleman at the window ends up waving back.

The mystery of the missing father hangs over this tender story full of adventures, in which the children even stop a train by waving red petticoats.

Simply written, with plenty of dialogue, the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

ثلاثة أطفال عليهم إيقاف قطار. يتنزّه روبرتا وبيتر وفيليس فوق خط السكة الحديدية. وفجأةً تنهار صخور وأشجار على القضبان. وسرعان ما سيصل قطار بأقصى سرعته، ولا بد من إشارة حمراء لإيقافه. فتخلع الفتاتان تنّورتيهما الداخليتين…

The world of the book

ريفٌ تعبره القطارات. في ذلك الزمن، كانت قطارات البخار تربط كل قرية بالمدن الكبرى. وبالنسبة إلى ثلاثة أطفال قادمين من لندن، كان كل شيء جديدًا: المحطة الصغيرة وموظفها السيد بيركس، والنفق المحفور في التل، والقطارات التي…

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