The Literary Sense

By E. Nesbit

“The Literary Sense” is a 1903 collection of short stories for adults by Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924). Nesbit was an English poet and author who published more than 60 children's books under the name E. Nesbit. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, which had a significant influence on the Labour Party and British politics in general. Other notable works by this author include: “The Prophet's Mantle” (1885), “Something Wrong” (1886), and “The Marden Mystery” (1896). Contents include: “The Unfaithful Lover”, “Rounding off a Scene”, “the Obvious”, “The Lie Absolute”, “The Girl with the Guitar”, “The Man with the Boots”, “The Second Best”, “A Holiday”, “The Force of Habit”. “The Brute”. “Dick, Tom and Harry”, “Miss Eden's Baby”. “The Lover, the Girl, and the Onlooker”, “The Duel”, “Cinderella”, “With an E”, “Under the New Moon”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read & Co. Classics
• Release date: Jun 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781528787567

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit was born in 1858 and, like her fictional characters in The Railway Children, her middle-class family was one whose fortunes declined. After surviving a tough and nomadic childhood she met and married her husband, Hubert Bland, in 1880 whilst pregnant with the couple's first child. Financial hardship was to dog Nesbit again when Bland's business failed, forcing her to write to support their burgeoning family. She only later in life focused on writing the children's stories for which she became so well known, including The Story of The Treasure Seekers (1899), The Wouldbegoods (1901), Five Children and It (1902) and The Railway Children (1906). She died in 1924.