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The Railway Children

Edith Nesbit

The Railway Children

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1906
Bilingual edition
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

Three children must stop a train. Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are walking high above the railway line. Suddenly, rocks and trees come crashing down onto the rails. A train will soon be coming, at full speed. Only a red…

The world of the book

Where the trains go by. In those days, steam trains linked every village to the big towns. For three children from London, everything was new: the little station and its porter, Mr Perks, the tunnel cut into the hill…

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