Harding’s Luck

Harding’s Luck is E. Nesbit’s companion to The House of Arden, published in 1909, and by many judged the more moving of the two. Dickie Harding is a poor, lame London boy who, through an old family charm, is able to slip back in time into the body of a well-born child in the England of long ago, where he is loved, healthy, and whole. Torn between the comfort of the past and loyalty to his own hard life and friends in the present, Dickie faces a choice that gives the book real depth of feeling. It links, at the last, with the fortunes of the House of Arden. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete story.