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The Wonderful Garden

The Wonderful Garden

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Number of Chapters: 23

Length: 8 hours and 39 minutes

Language: English

Do you believe in magic? Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's house does anything to diminish that belief. There the Three C.'s find a wonderful garden and some very old books, resulting in escapades which do not necessarily please the grown-ups.

E. Nesbit, as usual, transports us back to the hazy summer days of a well-to-do Edwardian childhood, liberally spiced with magic, humour and lessons learned.

Published exactly 100 years ago, this is one of her least-known children's books, out of print for many years, and with no text available online at the time of recording. Yes, it's dated. Yes, it's politically incorrect. But it is delightful nonetheless. As Gore Vidal once wrote: "...though a reading of E. Nesbit is hardly going to change the pattern of a nation, there is some evidence that the child who reads her will never be quite the same again, and that is probably a good thing." (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

No online text is currently available. The reader read from her own copy of the 1911 1st edition.

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01 - The Beginning (Ruth Golding)
02 - The Manor House (Ruth Golding)
03 - The Wonderful Garden (Ruth Golding)
04 - In Thessalonians (Ruth Golding)
05 - The Midnight Adventure (Ruth Golding)
06 - Hunted (Ruth Golding)
07 - Being Detectives (Ruth Golding)
08 - The Heroine (Ruth Golding)
09 - The Morning After (Ruth Golding)
10 - Brewing the Spell (Ruth Golding)
11 - The Rosicurians (Ruth Golding)
12 - The Other Book (Ruth Golding)
13 - The Rosy Cure (Ruth Golding)
14 - The Mineral Woman (Ruth Golding)
15 - Justice (Ruth Golding)
16 - The Appeal to Caesar (Ruth Golding)
17 - The Le-o-pard (Ruth Golding)
18 - The Leopard's-Bane (Ruth Golding)
19 - F. of H.D. (Ruth Golding)
20 - The Waxen Man (Ruth Golding)
21 - The Atonement of Rupert (Ruth Golding)
22 - The Portrait (Ruth Golding)
23 - The End (Ruth Golding)
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