Презентация по английскому языку " Edith Nesbit" (10 класс)

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  Literature
  Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924)
  

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  Edith Nesbit
   15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924
  was an English author and poet
  
  

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  Edith Nesbit
  Nesbit published approximately 40 books for children, including novels, collections of stories and picture books. 
  Collaborating with others, she published almost as many more.
  

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  Edith Nesbit
  She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organization later affiliated to the Labour Party.
  

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  Edith Nesbit
  According to her biographer Julia Briggs, Nesbit was "the first modern writer for children": "(Nesbit) helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame
  

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  Edith Nesbit
  Among Nesbit's best-known books are The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1898) and The Wouldbegoods (1899), which both recount stories about the Bastables, a middle-class family that has fallen on (relatively) hard times. 
  

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  Edith Nesbit
   Gore Vidal called the time-travel book, The Story of the Amulet one in which "Nesbit's powers of invention are at their best." Her children's writing also included numerous plays and collections of verse.
  

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  The railway children
   is also known from its adaptation into a 1970 film version.
  
  

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