IN THE DARK
E. Nesbit
Edited, with an Introduction, by
HUGH LAMB
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First published in Great Britain by Equation 1988
Selection, Introduction, and Notes © Hugh Lamb 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780008249014
Ebook Edition © September 2017 ISBN: 9780008249021
Version: 2017-08-10
To the beautiful Marisol – my partner and guardian angel.
Table of Contents
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached
There can be few children over the past hundred years who have never encountered the works of E. Nesbit. Even nowadays, in spite of the distractions of playstations and the Internet, her children’s stories entertain and enchant young readers. Lionel Jeffries’s 1972 film of The Railway Children (1906) is a perennial television favourite.
At the same time, it is almost certain that very few adult readers know of, or have read,