The Book of Dragons, E. Nesbit
The Book of Dragons, E. Nesbit
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The Book of Dragons

Author: E. Nesbit

Narrator: Kitty Hendrix

Unabridged: 4 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 01/17/2023

Synopsis

The Book of Dragons is a collection of children’s stories by English writer Edith Nesbit, who wrote under the name E. Nesbit in order to obscure her gender.Comprising eight stories originally published in 1899 in The Strand magazine, The Book of Dragons is a work that explores the magic and wonder of mythical beasts for children and adults alike.The dragons are hardly ever nice, but E. Nesbit’s children are undeterred. Always in favor of “valuing their opinions, honoring the realities of their inner lives, and giving them the freedom to explore and build worlds of their own,”* Edith Nesbit portrays her children to be great problem-solvers.We hope you will enjoy the re-telling of these wonderful stories with accompanying musical interludes, to perhaps bring you to some enchanted, peaceful place where everything almost always turns out for the best.*The New Yorker Magazine: Jessica Winter, September 28, 2022

About E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit, the daughter of John Collis Nesbit, a schoolmaster, was born on August 19, 1858. Her father died when Edith was only six years old. Despite money problems, Edith's mother managed to educate her daughter in France. At the age of nineteen, Edith met Hubert Bland, a young writer with radical political opinions. In 1879, Edith discovered she was pregnant; she married Hubert on April 22, 1880, and the baby was born two months later. Edith and Hubert were both socialists, and on October 24, 1883, they decided to form a debating group with their Quaker friend Edward Pease, Havelock Ellis, and Frank Podmore. They decided to call themselves the Fabian Society and were later joined by other socialists. Edith and Hubert became joint editors of the society's journal, Today. Edith was a regular lecturer and writer on socialism throughout the 1880s. However, she gave less time to these activities after she become a successful children's writer. Her most famous novels include The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Railway Children, and The Enchanted Castle. A collection of her political poetry, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism, was published in 1908. After the death of her husband in 1914, Edith married Thomas Tucker, an engineer. Edith continued to write children's books and had published forty-four novels before her death on May 4, 1924.

About Kitty Hendrix

Kitty Hendrix is an Audie Award-nominated and AudioFile Award-winning actor who has narrated books since 2013 in nearly every genre. With an extensive background in professional theater, indie film, and musical performance on both the East and West coasts, she often finds herself performing books that promote personal empowerment. In fiction, with an array of accents and an expansive emotional range, she enjoys narrating dynamic and complex characters. In nonfiction she loves imparting concepts and principles in a clear, compelling, and relatable way. Kitty loves audiobook narration because she gets to apply her acting skills every day. Kitty lives in NYC with her writer husband and her Shiba Inu, Reiki.

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