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Nine Unlikely Tales for Children

E. Nesbit

First published September 1901
Type Collection

  • 9 stories, all first published in magazines probably
  • After the first Bastable Children serial novel: "she now turned to fantasy, writing a series of witty Fairytales for The Strand and other papers, collected as The Book of Dragons (coll 1899) and Nine Unlikely Tales for Children (coll 1901)." --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biog. entry by Lisa Tuttle (All 8 Dragons stories were first published in The Strand.)
  • 5 of the 9 Unlikely stories constitute the 1993 collection Whereyouwantogoto and Other Tales.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1901 Cover Nine Unlikely Tales for Children T. Fisher Unwin Collection
1910 Nine Unlikely Tales for Children T. Fisher Unwin Collection
January 2008 Cover Nine Unlikely Tales for Children LibriVox Collection