Edith Nesbit wrote with supreme confidence about the lives of children and Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis, the trio in The Railway Children , reflect her faith in the resourcefulness, capacity for adventure, and instinctive heroism of the young. This edition of her most popular book restores the splendid original illustrations of C. E. Brock.

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

【导语】 When their father is sent away to prison ,three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway,making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves. In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-mannered siblings are greatly altered when,...(展开全部)

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the...(展开全部)

《铁路边的孩子们》讲述的是一家人在困境中的生活故事，爸爸因被人陷害而被关进了监狱，妈妈独立支撑起整个家庭。但是整个故事让我们感受到的不是艰难困苦，而是妈妈努力维护的温馨生活，还有孩子们健康快乐的成长。就在这个铁路边，孩子们机智地避免了一场可怕的铁路灾难，救助了另一位在隧道中摔伤的少年，还扑灭了运河轮船上的火情，和妈妈一起收留了一位流亡的俄罗斯作家。他们高尚的行为赢得了所有人的尊重，最后又在好心人的帮助下为爸爸洗清了冤屈。

Now a classic of the travel genre, The Great Railway Bazaar chronicles Paul Theroux's adventures by rail from Victoria Station in London to Tokyo Central, told with his signature wry observations.

In the quarter of a century between 1830 and 1855, the railway locomotive developed from the small sisters of Rocketto the broad gauge monsters of Daniel Gooch, with a boiler pressure nearly three tim

From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City.   ...(展开全部)

Danielle, a junior television producer, is on the hunt for the documentary idea that will make her reputation; Marina, the beautiful daughter of a famous and wealthy liberal journalist and intellectual, is desperate to prove her worth - while unsure exactly of how this is to be achieved; Julius, a freelance writer of devastating book reviews, is determined to live a fabulous Ma...(展开全部)