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Title: Oswald Bastable and Others

Author: Edith Nesbit

Illustrator: Charles E. Brock
H. R. Millar

Release Date: May 14, 2009 [EBook #28804]

Language: English

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OSWALD BASTABLE AND OTHERS

[Illustration: '"Don't break down the door! The villains may return any
moment and destroy you."'--Page 115.]

OSWALD BASTABLE
AND OTHERS

_By_
E. NESBIT

_Illustrated by_
CHARLES E. BROCK
AND
H. R. MILLAR

ERNEST BENN LIMITED
LONDON

COWARD-McCANN INC
NEW YORK

_First re-issued in this edition 1960_

_Published by Ernest Benn Limited
Bouverie House . Fleet Street . London . EC4
and Coward-McCann Inc
210 Madison Avenue . New York 16 . NY_

_Printed in Great Britain_

TO
MY DEAR NIECE
ANTHONIA NESBIT

CONTENTS

OSWALD BASTABLE

AN OBJECT OF VALUE AND VIRTUE _page_ 1

THE RUNAWAYS 34

THE ARSENICATORS: A TALE OF
CRIME 64

THE ENCHANCERIED HOUSE 89

OTHERS

MOLLY, THE MEASLES, AND THE
MISSING WILL 123

BILLY AND WILLIAM 151

THE TWOPENNY SPELL 167

SHOWING OFF; OR, THE LOOKING-GLASS
BOY 181

THE RING AND THE LAMP 200

THE CHARMED LIFE; OR, THE
PRINCESS AND THE LIFT-MAN 224

BILLY THE KING 247

THE PRINCESS AND THE CAT 275

THE WHITE HORSE