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The Railway Children

The Railway Children

Nesbit, E.

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 1534621164
ISBN13: 9781534621169
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jun 11 2016
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Railway Children By E. Nesbit The story concerns a family who move from London to The Three Chimneys, a house near the railway in Yorkshire, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited. The family take care of a Russian exile, Mr Szczepansky, who came to England looking for his family (later located) and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman, who suffers a broken leg in a tunnel. The theme of an innocent man being falsely imprisoned for espionage and finally vindicated might have been influenced by the Dreyfus Affair, which was a prominent worldwide news item a few years before the book was written. The Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.

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