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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

三個孩子必須攔下火車。羅伯塔、彼得和菲莉絲在鐵路上方的坡地散步。突然,岩石和樹木崩落到鐵軌上。一列火車很快就要全速駛來。要攔下它,需要紅色的信號。於是兩個女孩脫下紅色法蘭絨襯裙,孩子們用它做成六面小旗。

The world of the book

火車穿行的鄉間。那時,蒸汽火車把每座村莊與大城市連在一起。對三個從倫敦來的孩子而言,一切都很新鮮:小車站和站務員珀克斯先生、山丘裡開鑿的隧道,還有每天從他們家坡下駛過的火車。

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