E. Nesbit 4 hr 56 min read

Edred and Elfrida Arden find that their crumbling ancestral house holds a secret: a magical mole, the Mouldiwarp, who can carry them back through the centuries after the lost Arden treasure.

E. Nesbit's 1908 novel is a delightful children's fantasy of time travel and family history. Witty, inventive, warm. Read it for classic Nesbit, two children voyaging into England's past, from Napoleon's day to Guy Fawkes's, in a charming and clever adventure through their own family's history.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 56 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

H. R. Millar