E. Nesbit

Chapter One One day we started to try to look for treasure. You will see that we tried very hard to find it. There are six children in our family, and then there is Father. Our mother is dead. I will not talk about her. We all loved her, so it is difficult to talk about her. We live in Lewisham...

CHAPTER ONE The Beginning of Things They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as means of getting to Maskelyne and Cooke's, the pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and...

Részlet a könyvből: A címbeli vasút eleinte nem sok szerepet játszott az életünkben. A vasút nem volt egyéb számunkra, mint közönséges szállítóeszköz. Vasúton utaztak Maskelyne és Cook urak belvárosi bűvészszínházba vagy a karácsonyi matinéelőadás színhelyére, a...