E. Nesbit

E. Nesbit

E. Nesbit also wrote as: Fabian Bland.

E. Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey on August 15th, 1858 and passed away at the age of 65 on May 4th, 1924.

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E. Nesbit Stats: The highest rated book by E. Nesbit on Book Notification is Five Children and It, the first novel in the Five Children series. The second-highest rated book is The Enchanted Castle, a Standalone novel.

The most read book by E. Nesbit on Book Notification is Five Children and It, the first novel in the Five Children series. The second most read book is The Railway Children, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of E. Nesbit books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by E. Nesbit is the Five Children Series.

List of Bastable Children Books in Publication Order

List of Five Children Books in Publication Order

List of House of Arden Books in Publication Order

List of Pussy Tales Books in Publication Order

List of Shakespeare Stories Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Twelfth Night
2018
2
Othello
2018
3
Timon of Athens
2018
4
The Winter's Tale
2018
5
The Comedy of Errors
2018
6
Hamlet
2018
7
As You Like It
2018
8
The Tempest
2018
9
Much Ado About Nothing
2018
10
Measure for Measure
2018
11
The Merchant of Venice
2018
12
King Lear
2018
13
Cymbeline
2018
14
Romeo and Juliet
2018
15
Pericles
2018
16
Macbeth
2018
17
Shakespeare Tales of Revenge
2018
18
Shakespeare Tales of Humour and Wit
2018
19
Shakespeare Tales of Wisdom
2019

List of The Year of the Cat Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Louisa Swann, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, Dory Crowe)
A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Louisa Swann, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, Dory Crowe)
2020
2
A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Saki , Charles Dudley Warner, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Kari Kilgore)
A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Saki , Charles Dudley Warner, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Kari Kilgore)
2020
3
A Cat of Disdainful Looks (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Rudyard Kipling, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mark Twain, Ray Vukcevich, John Adams, Jodi Lyn Nye)
A Cat of Disdainful Looks (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Rudyard Kipling, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mark Twain, Ray Vukcevich, John Adams, Jodi Lyn Nye)
2020
4
A Cat of Strange Lands (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders)
A Cat of Strange Lands (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders)
2020
5
A Cat of Cozy Situations (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ed Gorman, Carole Nelson Douglas, Dean Wesley Smith, W.W. Jacobs, Mary A. Turzillo, Dory Crowe)
2020
6
A Cat of Space and Time (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andre Norton, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mary Turzillo, Daemon Crowe)
A Cat of Space and Time (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andre Norton, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mary Turzillo, Daemon Crowe)
2020
7
A Cat of Heroic Heart (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce)
A Cat of Heroic Heart (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce)
2020
8
A Cat of Roving Nature (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Emile Zola, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dory Crowe, C.J. Erick, Sylvia Warner)
A Cat of Roving Nature (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Emile Zola, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dory Crowe, C.J. Erick, Sylvia Warner)
2020
9
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Henry Slesar, Joan Aiken, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mary Turzillo)
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Henry Slesar, Joan Aiken, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mary Turzillo)
2021
10
A Cat of Fantastic Whims (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jamie Ferguson, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Liz Pierce)
A Cat of Fantastic Whims (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jamie Ferguson, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Liz Pierce)
2021
11
A Cat of Feral Instincts (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigid Collins, Dean Wesley Smith, Pamela Sargent, Jamie McNabb, Mary Turzillo, N. Margaret Campbell)
A Cat of Feral Instincts (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigid Collins, Dean Wesley Smith, Pamela Sargent, Jamie McNabb, Mary Turzillo, N. Margaret Campbell)
2021
12
A Cat of Romantic Soul (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anthea Sharp, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Bonnie Elizabeth, Dean Wesley Smith, Kari Kilgore)
A Cat of Romantic Soul (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anthea Sharp, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Bonnie Elizabeth, Dean Wesley Smith, Kari Kilgore)
2021
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List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Man-Size in Marble
1886
2
The Pilot
1893
3
In Homespun
1896
4
The Red House
1902
5
8
The Railway Children
1906
6
The Incomplete Amorist
1906
7
10
The Enchanted Castle
1907
8
The Three Drugs
1908
9
The Magic City
1910
10
Dormant
1911
11
Wet Magic
1913
12
The Lark
1922
13
In The Dark
2000
14
These Little Ones
2004
15
Pussy and Doggy Tales
2008
16
The house with no address
2009
17
The Prophet's Mantle (With: Hubert Bland)
The Prophet's Mantle (With: Hubert Bland)
2011
18
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached
2018
19
Salome and the Head
2018
20
Daphne in Fitzroy Street
2020

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

List of Collections in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Lays and Legends
1886
2
Landscape and Song
1888
3
Grim Tales
1893
4
Last of the Dragons and Some Others
1899
5
Nine Unlikely Tales
1901
6
Man And Maid
1906
7
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children
1907
8
Fairy Tales for Young Readers
1975
9
Fairy Stories
1979
10
E. Nesbit's Tales Of Terror
1983
11
A Pomander of Verse
2004
12
Songs of Love and Empire
2004
13
The Power of Darkness
2006
14
Dragon Stories
2012
15
Fairy Tale Heroes
2012
16
Edith Nesbit Collection
2013
17
Collected Works of Edith Nesbit
2013
18
The Short Stories Of Edith Nesbit
2013
19
The Poetry of Edith Nesbit
2013
20
All Round the Year
2013
21
Edith Nesbit, Collection Children's Novels
2014
22
Leaves of Life
2015
23
Tales of Terror and Occult
2015
24
6
Horror Stories
2016
25
From the Dead
2017
26
Many Voices
2019
27
Edith Nesbit Classics
2020
28
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
2021
29
The Magic World Annotated
2021
30
The Selected Ghost Stories of E. Nesbit
2022
31
The Greatest Children's Fiction Books of All Time
2023

List of Children's Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
The Book of Dragons
1899
2
The Conscience Pudding
1899
3
The Book of Beasts
1901
4
Melisande
1901
5
The Magic World
1912
6
The Magician's Heart
1912
7
The Wonderful Garden
1935
8
The Island of the Nine Whirlpools
1970
9
Princess and the Hedgehog
1974
10
Septimus Septimusson
1976
11
The Fiery Dragon
1978
12
Cockatoucan
1981
13
Belinda and Bellamant
1982
14
Deliverers of Their Country
1985
15
Town in the Library
1987
16
Ice Dragon
1988
17
The Last of the Dragons
1988
18
Whereyouwanttogoto
1993
19
Lionel And The Book Of Beasts
2002
20
The Princess and the Cat
2006
21
Jack and the Beanstalk
2006
22
Enchanted Castle
2010
23
Classic Princesses
2012
24
Cinderella
2013
25
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
2013
26
Four Ways to Irritate a Fairy
2013
27
Kind Little Edmund
2015
28
The Magic Garden
2017
29
Miss Mischief
2018
30
A Course in Magic
2019
31
Magical Book
2021

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

List of Dainty Series Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Young Robin Hood (By: George Manville Fenn)
Young Robin Hood (By: George Manville Fenn)
1899
2
Young Robin Hood (By: George Manville Fenn, Mint Editions)
Young Robin Hood (By: George Manville Fenn, Mint Editions)
1899
3
The Little Skipper (By: George Manville Fenn)
The Little Skipper (By: George Manville Fenn)
1900
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List of E. Nesbit Anthologies in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
1931
2
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
1966
3
Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex
1975
4
Before Armageddon, Vol. 1
1976
5
65 Great Tales Of The Supernatural
1979
6
65 Great Spine Chillers
1982
7
Over the Rainbow
1983
8
Spooky Tales
1984
9
Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls
1985
10
The Dark Descent
1987
11
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories
1987
12
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
1987
13
Tales of the Dark 2
1987
14
Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories
1990
15
The Anthology of Ghost Stories
1990
16
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2
1991
17
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
1992
18
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
1993
19
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories
1993
20
Spellbound
1995
21
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories
1995
22
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories
1996
23
10
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
1996
24
The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories
1997
25
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings
1998
26
The Wizards' Den
2001
27
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
2001
28
Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West
2002
29
Tales Before Tolkien
2003
30
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
2007
31
The Darker Sex
2009
32
The Dreaming Sex
2010
33
The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told
2011
34
Gothic Tales of Terror, Volume 7
2012
35
The Lady Chillers
2012
36
8
Unnatural Creatures
2013
37
The Femme Fatales of Horror, Vol. 1
2013
38
Round the Christmas Fire
2013
39
Seven of Spectres
2013
40
A Quarter To Fear
2013
41
Blessings from the Condemned
2014
42
Ghost Stories UK - Volume 4
2015
43
The Feminine Future
2015
44
Weird Fiction of Early Speculative Horror
2015
45
The Altar of the Dead and Other Morbid Tales
2015
46
The Victorian Women Writers Collection
2015
47
A Gathering Darkness
2016
48
Vampire Tales
2018
49
Echoing Ghost Stories
2018
50
The Classic Fantasy Collection
2019
51
The Occult Fiction Collection
2019
52
Hoards of the Great Fire Wyrms
2019
53
Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings
2019
54
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
2019
55
Stories to make you Shudder: Book 2
2019
56
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3
2019
57
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die
2019
58
Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses
2020
59
Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 9
2020
60
A Cat of Disdainful Looks
2020
61
Classic Cat Stories
2020
62
Queens of the Abyss
2020
63
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923
2021
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E. Nesbit: Biography

E. Nesbit was born on August 15th, 1858. E. passed away May 4th, 1924 at 65 years old. E. Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey.

E. Nesbit was the author of the E. Nesbit Collections series which consists of 31 novels. The E. Nesbit Collections series started in 1886 with the novel Lays and Legends. The most recently released novel in the E. Nesbit Collections series was The Greatest Children's Fiction Books of All Time which was released in 2023. There are no upcoming novels for the E. Nesbit Collections series.

E. Nesbit also wrote the Children's Books series which has 31 books including The Book of Dragons and The Conscience Pudding.

E. Nesbit: Awards & Accolades

Nesbit's book, The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales was nominated for the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1994.

Related Authors

The most common authors followed by users who also follow E. Nesbit are:

  1. Neil Gaiman, author of the American Gods Series.
  2. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter Series.
  3. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
  4. Jane Austen, author of the novel: Pride and Prejudice.
  5. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings Series.

E. Nesbit: F.A.Q

When was E. Nesbit Born?

E. Nesbit was born on August 15th, 1858.

When did E. Nesbit die?

E. Nesbit died on May 4th, 1924 at 65 years old.

Where was E. Nesbit Born?

E. Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey, .

What was the first book E. Nesbit wrote?

The first novel written by E. Nesbit was Man-Size in Marble, published in 1886.

What was the most recent book E. Nesbit wrote?

Their most recently released work was The Greatest Children's Fiction Books of All Time on February 15th, 2023.

How many books has E. Nesbit written?

E. Nesbit has written 127 books across 13 series.
  • 3 books in the Bastable Children Series
  • 3 books in the Five Children Series
  • 2 books in the House of Arden Series
  • 8 books in the Pussy Tales Series
  • 19 books in the Shakespeare Stories Series
  • 3 books in The Year of the Cat Series
  • 20 Standalone Novels
  • 3 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 1 Short Story Collections
  • 31 Collections
  • 31 Children's Books
  • 3 Non-Fiction Books

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