Edith Nesbit

Londres, Inglaterra, 1858 – 1924.

Edith Nesbit fue una escritora victoriana que abordó diversos géneros en sus obras, aunque destacó especialmente por sus historias de fantasía para niños, que se convirtieron en sus trabajos más exitosos y aclamados por la crítica. En estas obras, la autora consiguió aunar con naturalidad los aspectos más mundanos con aquellos más fantásticos, inspirados muchas veces en tópicos y motivos de los cuentos de hadas, a la vez que retrató con singular destreza las inquietudes y problemas de los niños. Este vívido retrato de la infancia le ha permitido a Nesbit mantenerse vigente incluso en el público infantil actual.

Además de sus trabajos para niños, la autora también cultivó el relato de terror destinado a los lectores adultos y la poesía.

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Novelas infantiles

Saga La familia Bastable
I. Los buscadores de tesoros (Toromítico, 2015). [The Story of the Treasure Seekers, 1899]
II. Los seremosbuenos (Toromítico, 2016). [The Wouldbegoods, 1901]
III. The New Treasure Seekers (Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1904)
IV. Oswald Bastable and Others (Wells Gardner, Darton & Company, 1905). Colección de relatos.
The Complete History of the Bastable Family (Ernest Benn Limited, 1928)

Saga Psammead (Five Children)
Cinco niños y eso (Andrés Bello, 2006). [Five Children and It, 1902]
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Newnes, 1904)
Historia de un amuleto (Andrés Bello, 2006). [The Story of the Amulet, 1906]

Saga La Casa de Arden (Fabian Time Fantasies)
The House of Arden (T. Fisher Unwin, 1908)
Harding’s Luck (Hodder & Stoughton, 1909)

Independientes
Los niños del ferrocarril (Berenice, 2013). [The Railway Children, 1906]
El castillo encantado (Alba, 1998). [The Enchanted Castle, 1907]
La ciudad mágica (Berenice, 2014). [The Magic City, 1910]
The Wonderful Garden (MacMillan and Company Limited, 1911)
Wet Magic (T. Fisher Unwin, 1913)
Five of Us and Madeline (T. Fisher Unwin, 1925)

Novelas

The Prophet’s Mantle (Drane, 1885). En coautoría con su esposo, Hubert Bland, y bajo el seudónimo de Fabian Bland.
The Marden Mystery (1896)
The Secret of the Kyriels (1899)
The Red House (Harper & Brothers, 1902)
The Incomplete Amorist (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, 1906)
Salome and the Head (The Musson Book Company Limited, 1909). Título alternativo: The House With No Address.
Daphne in Fitzroy Street (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909)
Dormant (Meuthen and Company Limited, 1911)
The Incredible Honeymoon (Harper & Brothers, 1916)
The Lark (Hutchinson & Company, 1922)

Colecciones infantiles

Miss Mischief (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1894)
Tick Tock, Tales of the Clock (Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895)
Shakespeare para niños (Andrés Bello, 2007). [The Children’s Shakespeare, 1897]
Royal Children of English History (Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1897)
The Book of Dogs (1898)
Pussy and Doggy Tales (J. M. Dent & Company, 1899)
Historias de dragones (Anaya, 2009). [The Book of Dragons, 1901]
Melisande (Vicen Vives, 2003). [“Melisande”, relato incluido en la compilación Nine Unlikely Tales, 1901]
The Revolt of the Toys (E.P. Dutton, 1902)
The Rainbow Queen and Other Stories (Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1903)
Playtime Stories (Tuck, 1903)
The Story of Five Rebellious Dolls (1904)
Cat Tales (Nister & Company, 1904)
Pug Peter, King of Mouseland (Alf Cooke Limited, 1905)
The Old Nursery Stories (Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1908)
The Magic World (MacMillan and Company, 1912)

Antologías infantiles

Fur and Feathers (Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1894). Relato: “More Haste, less Speed”.
Tales Told in the Twilight (E.P Dutton & Company, 1897). Relatos: “The Three Wishes”, “The Fashionable Fur”, “Hide-and-Seek”, “The Grateful Fairy”, “The Happy Lily”, “The Queen’s Jewels”, “The Pen Fairy”, “The Love Match”, “The Fairy and the Mouse”, “The Rubber Fairy”, “The Pink Egg”, “Our Black Cat”, “The Stuck-Up Rabbit”, “The Mirror of Truth”, “What Comes of Quarreling”, “The Rat Princess”, “The Little Boy Next Door”, “The Grateful Pedlar”, “Doing Nothing” y “Out Cat’s Tale”.
Peeps at Our Pets (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1895).
Mother Goose Nursery Tales (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1895).
What Really Happened (Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1896). Relato: “The Babe in the Wood (What Happened at Kitty’s Picnic)”.

Colecciones

Something Wrong (A.D. Innes, 1886). En coautoría con su esposo, Hubert Bland, bajo el seudónimo de Fabian Bland.
Grim Tales (A. D. Innes & Company, 1893)
The Pilot (Von Portman & Company, 1893)
The Butler in Bohemia (Drane, 1894)
In Homespun (Lane, 1896)
Thirteen Ways Home (Anthony Treherne & Company, 1901)
The Literary Sense (The MacMillan Company, 1903)
Man and Maid (T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)
The Third Drug (Strand Magazine, 1908). Título alternativo: The Three Drugs.
These Little Ones (George Allen & Sons, 1909)
Fear (S. Paul & Company, 1910)
To the Adventurous (Hutchinson & Company, 1923)

No ficción

Wings and the Child, or, The Building of Magic Cities (Hodder and Stoughton, 1913)
Long Ago When I Was Young (Watts, 1966)

Poesía

Fairies (Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1881)
The Time of Roses (Sin fecha)
Lays and Legends (Longsman, Green, and Company, 1886)
The Lily and the Cross (Okeden & Welsh, 1887)
The Star of Bethlehem (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1887)
The Better Part, and other poems (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1888)
Landscape and Song (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1888)
The Message of the Dove (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1888)
All Round the Year (Von Portheim, 1888). En coautoría con Caris Brooke.
Leaves of Life (Longmans, Green, and Company, 1888)
Corals and Sea Songs (1889)
Songs of Two Seasons (Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1890)
Sweet Lavender (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1892)
Lays and Legends: Second Edition (Longsman, Green, and Company, 1892)
Rose Leaves (Ernest Nister, 1895)
A Pomander of Verse (A.C McClurg and Company, 1895)
Songs of Love and Empire (Archibald Constable & Company, 1898)
To Wish You Every Joy (Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1901)
The Rainbow and the Rose (Longsman, Green, and Company, 1905)
Jesus in London (A.C. Fifield, 1908)
Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism (The Fabian Society, 1883-1908)
Ballads and Verses of the Spiritual Life (E. Mathews, 1911)
Garden Poems (1912)
Many Voices (Hutchinson & Company, 1922)