The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit’s delightful sequel to Five Children and It, published in 1904. Back home in London after their summer adventures, the children find a mysterious egg rolled up in a new nursery carpet, and when it falls into the fire it hatches into a splendid, vain, and talkative Phoenix. The carpet, it turns out, is a magic one that will carry them anywhere they ask, and with the Phoenix as their guide the children are swept off on a string of scrapes across the world and beyond. Nesbit blends wild invention with the ordinary muddles of family life to wonderful comic effect. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete story.
About the Author
E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author and poet who transformed children’s literature with realistic, funny, and magical stories such as The Railway Children and Five Children and It.
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The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Egg | 34:07 | |
| 2 | The Topless Tower | 40:32 | |
| 3 | The Queen Cook | 46:19 | |
| 4 | Two Bazaars | 32:24 | |
| 5 | The Temple | 32:53 | |
| 6 | Doing Good | 27:20 | |
| 7 | Mews from Persia | 34:14 | |
| 8 | The Cats, the Cow, and the Burglar | 34:06 | |
| 9 | The Burglar's Bride | 32:12 | |
| 10 | The Hole in the Carpet | 23:14 | |
| 11 | The Beginning of the End | 29:28 | |
| 12 | The End of the End | 30:19 |
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