The Railway Children
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The Railway Children
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice Alex Mercer
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E. Nesbit
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
Summary
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live an ordinary, comfortable life in a London suburb until the day their father is taken away on business and their mother moves them to a shabby white house in the country. There is no money, no nursery and no gaslight -- but there is a railway at the bottom of the field, and that changes everything.
They learn the timetable by heart, wave to the same train every morning, make friends with Perks the porter and the station master, and slowly become part of the life of the line. What begins as a game turns into real courage: a landslide stopped with red flannel petticoats, a stranded boy found in a tunnel, a fire on a canal boat, a strange gentleman who keeps appearing on the train. Under all of it runs the quiet, unresolved question of where their father has gone.
E. Nesbit published The Railway Children in 1906, after serialising it the year before. It is one of the founding books of modern children's fiction -- notable for letting children be capable and funny and frightened at the same time, and for treating their mother's writing as real work. The railway itself is almost a character: smoke, signals, the 11:15 and the long grass of the cutting.
This unabridged reading follows all fourteen chapters, from the beginning of things to the last look back at the white house.
Narrated by Alex Mercer.
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