The Railway Children

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THE RAILWAY
CHILDREN
MADE BY: ALEXANDER IVANOV

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THE RAILWAY CHILDREN IS A CHILDREN'S BOOK
BY EDITH NESBIT, ORIGINALLY SERIALISED IN THE
LONDON MAGAZINE DURING 1905 AND FIRST PUBLISHED
IN BOOK FORM IN 1906.

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• This is a story of three children, Roberta, Phyllis, and Peter, who live in a respectable
suburban villa with a wonderful mother and father and a cook and servants, until one day
great disgrace and poverty befalls them. Father is taken away to prison (but they do not
know this at first), and they have to move to a poor cottage in the country near a railway
line.

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Left without servants, children learn to take care of themselves. And they spend all their
free time near the railway, where they are waiting for incredible adventures, thanks to
which, as well as the happy occasion and the “Green Dragon” daily express train, the
children get acquainted with the Old Gentleman, who knows the secret of the
disappearance of his father ...

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• Mother writes stories to earn what little they live on and they get used to being poor
and have to learn not to steal coal from the railway station, even if they have so little to
keep warm by. Sometimes they argue and have crises, as one does, but in time they make
many new friends, and amusing adventures aplenty happen near the railway and the canal.
They develop the habit of waving to the train as it goes past and sometimes the people in
the coaches wave back. Their friendly habits makes them one special friend in particular,
who although he mostly just goes by in the train, eventually gets to know them, and helps
them out in various ways. And somehow all the good things that they do add up together
and end up coming back to them, and there is happy ending to it all.

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THE END