by E. Nesbit · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853261718
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«The Wouldbegoods» is the children's novel by E. Nesbit, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The six Bastable children are sent to the countryside after a particularly disastrous prank. Determined to behave well, they create the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but their plans to do good end in fires, floods and other adventures that prove their good intentions never go as planned.
Second installment of the series The Treasure Seekers: Bastable Children, after The Story of the Treasure Seekers. The original work was published in 1901; this edition, in 1995.
For child and young adult readers and for adults who want to rediscover a classic of early 20th-century English literature.
Edith Nesbit was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.
