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Эдит Несбит. Oswald Bastable and Others
Oswald Bastable and Others
Table of Contents
AN OBJECT OF VALUE AND VIRTUE
AN OBJECT OF VALUE AND VIRTUE
THE RUNAWAYS
THE ARSENICATORS: A TALE OF CRIME
THE ARSENICATORS
THE ENCHANCERIED HOUSE
MOLLY, THE MEASLES, AND THE MISSING WILL
OTHERS
BILLY AND WILLIAM
THE TWOPENNY SPELL
SHOWING OFF; OR, THE LOOKING-GLASS BOY
THE RING AND THE LAMP
THE CHARMED LIFE; OR, THE PRINCESS AND THE LIFT-MAN
BILLY THE KING
THE PRINCESS AND THE CAT
THE WHITE HORSE
SIR CHRISTOPHER COCKLESHELL
MUSCADEL
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Edith Nesbit
Published by Good Press, 2020
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'The Goat's an object, certainly,' Alice said, 'and it's valuable. As for virtue, I'm not so sure.'
But Oswald thought the two V's looked well, and being virtuous is different to being valuable; but, all the same, the Goat might be both when you got to know him really well. So we put it in.
