Books with title Harding's Luck

Dickie Harding, a crippled orphan living in England in 1906, travels three hundred years back in time, where he is the son of a knight and can walk normally, but feels called back to the twentieth century to help the beggar and petty thief who has befriended him, and discovers an amazing secret about his origins.Dickie Harding, a crippled English orphan in 1906, travels three centuries back in time, where he is the son of a knight and can walk normally, but returns to help a friend, a beggar and petty thief

This story tells of brave Dickie Harding, the engaging little lame boy who lived at New Cross and spent a year with a tramp, besides having many other wonderful adventures. It tells, too, how Dickie nearly was made to be a burglar, of his great moon-flower, and the magic of its seeds, and how he slipped back in history five hundred years and became Master Richard Arden, who was not lame and poor, and how and why he came back again; of the Mouldiwarp, the Mouldierwarp, and the great Mouldiestwarp and what they did; of the buried treasure and how Dick and his friends found it, and so on to the end of the book.

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of fiction for children. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.

Dickie lived at New Cross. At least the address was New Cross, but really the house where he lived was one of a row of horrid little houses built on the slope where once green fields ran down the hill to the river, and the old houses of the Deptford merchants stood stately in their pleasant gardens and fruitful orchards. All those good fields and happy gardens are built over now. It is as though some wicked giant had taken a big brush full of yellow ochre paint, and another full of mud color, and had painted out the green in streaks of dull yellow and filthy brown; and the brown is the roads and the yellow is the houses. Miles and miles and miles of them, and not a green thing to be seen except the cabbages in the greengrocers' shops, and here and there some poor trails of creeping-jenny drooping from a dirty window-sill.

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Excerpt from Harding's LuckYou mind, and let it be the last time you come your games with me, my beauty. You and your tantrums!Dickie said what it was necessary to say, and got back to the garden.She says she ain't got no time to waste, an If you 'ave she don't care what you does with it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dickie Harding, a crippled orphan living in England in 1906, travels three hundred years back in time, where he is the son of a knight and can walk normally, but feels called back to the twentieth century to help the beggar and petty thief who has befriended him, and discovers an amazing secret about his origins.Dickie Harding, a crippled English orphan in 1906, travels three centuries back in time, where he is the son of a knight and can walk normally, but returns to help a friend, a beggar and petty thief