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The Psammead Or The Gifts


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The Psammead Or The Gifts


The Psammead Or The Gifts
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Author : Edith Nesbit
language : en
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Release Date : 1902

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The Psammead


The Psammead
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Author : E. Nesbit
language : en
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Release Date : 2012-08-02

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The Psammead, or the Gifts was originally published as stories to the Strand Magazine in 1900. The three resulting stories in the trilogy are expanded versions of those stories. They include Five Children and It (1902), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and the Story of the Amulet (1906).These childrens stories involve five children who move to the countryside and find a magical fairy that initially grants them wishes, however each one goes terribly wrong. Then they get a new carpet for the play room and find an egg inside which hatches into a Phoenix and turns the carpet into a magical and fantastic ride. The Phoenix also gives comical resulting wishes. Finally, Psammead returns for the final episode and the children experience adventure and excitement as they delve into the world of fantastic happenings.Five Children and It. Like Nesbit's Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. While playing in a gravel pit, the five children--Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane, and their baby brother, the Lamb--uncover a rather grumpy, ugly and occasionally malevolent sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who has the ability to grant wishes. However, the Psammead has been buried for so long, he is no longer able to grant individual wishes. Instead, he persuades the children to take one wish per day, to share amongst the lot of them, with the caveat that the wishes will turn to stone at sundown. This, apparently, used to be the rule in the Stone Age, when all children wished for was food, the bones of which would then become fossils. However, when the children's first wish--to be "as beautiful as the day"--ends at sundown, it simply vanishes, leading the Psammead to observe that some wishes are too fanciful to be changed to stone.All the wishes go comically wrong. When the children wish to be beautiful, the servants don't recognize them and shut them out of the house. When they wish to be rich, they find themselves with a gravel-pit full of gold spade guineas that no shop will accept as it is no longer in circulation, so they can't buy anything. A wish for wings seems to be going well, but at sunset the children find themselves stuck atop a church bell tower with no way down, getting them into trouble with the church gamekeeper who must take them home (though this wish has the happy side-effect of introducing the gamekeeper to the children's housemaid, who later marries him). After being bullied by the baker's boy, Robert wishes that he was bigger, whereupon he becomes eleven feet tall and the children show him at a traveling fair for coins. They also wish themselves into a castle, only to learn it's being besieged, while a wish to meet real Red Indians ends with the children nearly being scalped.The Phoenix and the Carpet. This middle volume of the trilogy that began with Five Children and It and concludes with The Story of the Amulet deviates somewhat from the other two because the Psammead gets only a brief mention, and because in this volume the children live with both of their parents and their younger brother-the Lamb-in their home in London. Consequently, there is less loneliness and sense of loss in this volume than in the other two. In both of the other volumes, circumstances have forced the children to spend a protracted period away from their familiar London home and their father; in Amulet, their mother and the Lamb are absent as well.A continuing theme throughout The Phoenix and the Carpet is, appropriately enough, the ancient element of fire. The story begins shortly before November 5, celebrated in England as Guy Fawkes Night. Traditionally, children light bonfires and set off fireworks on this night. The four children have accumulated a small hoard of fireworks but are too impatient to wait until November 5 to light them, so they set off a few samples in the nursery. This results in a fire that destroys the carpet.



Five Children And It


Five Children And It
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Author : E. Nesbit
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-09-11

Five Children And It written by E. Nesbit and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-11 with categories.


Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the Strand Magazine under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts, with a segment appearing each month from April to December.



Five Children And It


Five Children And It
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Author : Nesbit Edith
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-12-08

Five Children And It written by Nesbit Edith and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-08 with categories.


Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was first published as a book in 1902, having been expanded from a series of stories published in the Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication.



Five Children And It


Five Children And It
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Author : E Nesbit
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-07-13

Five Children And It written by E Nesbit and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-13 with categories.


Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the Strand Magazine under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts, with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication.



Five Children And It Illustrated


Five Children And It Illustrated
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Author : E Nesbit
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-01-02

Five Children And It Illustrated written by E Nesbit and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-02 with categories.


Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the Strand Magazine under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts, with a segment appearing each month from April to December.



Five Children And It Annotated


Five Children And It Annotated
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Author : Edith Nesbit
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-22

Five Children And It Annotated written by Edith Nesbit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-22 with categories.


Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the Strand Magazine under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts, with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication.



Five Children And It


Five Children And It
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Author : Edith Nesbit
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-25

Five Children And It written by Edith Nesbit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with categories.


Complete and unabridged paperback edition. Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the Strand Magazine under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts, with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.



The Psammead


The Psammead
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Author : E. Nesbit
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-08-02

The Psammead written by E. Nesbit and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-02 with Fiction categories.


The Psammead, or the Gifts was originally published as stories to the Strand Magazine in 1900. The three resulting stories in the trilogy are expanded versions of those stories. They include Five Children and It (1902), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and the Story of the Amulet (1906).These childrens stories involve five children who move to the countryside and find a magical fairy that initially grants them wishes, however each one goes terribly wrong. Then they get a new carpet for the play room and find an egg inside which hatches into a Phoenix and turns the carpet into a magical and fantastic ride. The Phoenix also gives comical resulting wishes. Finally, Psammead returns for the final episode and the children experience adventure and excitement as they delve into the world of fantastic happenings.



Five Children And It Illustrated


Five Children And It Illustrated
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Author : Edith Nesbit
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-29

Five Children And It Illustrated written by Edith Nesbit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-29 with categories.


Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the Strand Magazine under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts, with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication.