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Edith Nesbit
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English author and poet (1858–1924)

Also known as: E. Nesbit, Edith Bland, Edith Nesbit Bland, Edith Nesbit Bland Tucker, Эдит Несбит, إديث نسبيت

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Known works

  • Shakespeare's Complete Works
  • The Railway Children (1999)
  • The Story of the Treasure Seekers
  • Five Children and It
  • The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (2001)