E. Nesbit 4 hr 17 min read

A mysterious egg rolls out of a new nursery carpet and hatches a magnificent, vain, and talkative Phoenix, and the carpet itself proves able to carry the children anywhere they wish.

E. Nesbit's 1904 novel, sequel to 'Five Children and It,' is a beloved classic of children's fantasy. Witty, inventive, delightful. Read it for classic Nesbit, a splendid golden Phoenix, a wishing-carpet, and five children whisked into one comic scrape after another, in a masterwork of the everyday-magic tradition.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 17 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).