Series
Fabian Time Fantasies
E. Nesbit · 2 novels · 1908–1909
E. Nesbit's Edwardian time-travel duology follows two children who use a magic device to slip between their own era and the past. The House of Arden sends young Edred and his sister into English history in search of a family treasure, while its sequel, Harding's Luck, follows a poor orphan boy who travels back to the reign of James I and briefly lives another child's privileged life, before choosing to return and help the man who raised him, in a story pointedly concerned with poverty and welfare.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
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Stats
By decade
- 1900s2
Shape
2 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasyclass conflictbritish isles19th centuryadventurous
Mood
Bright and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Harding's Luckdarkest · calmest
- The House of Ardenbrightest · most intense