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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

三个孩子必须拦住火车。罗伯塔、彼得和菲莉丝在铁路上方的坡上散步。突然,岩石和树木塌落到铁轨上。一列火车很快就要全速驶来。要拦住它,需要红色的信号。于是两个女孩脱下红色法兰绒衬裙,孩子们用它做成六面小旗。

The world of the book

火车穿行的乡村。那时,蒸汽火车把每个村庄与大城市连在一起。对三个从伦敦来的孩子来说,一切都是新的:小车站和站务员珀克斯先生、山丘里开凿的隧道,还有每天从他们家坡下驶过的火车。

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