Project Gutenberg 2010-05-21 Public domain in the USA. 86 Nesbit, E. (Edith) 1858 1924 Nesbit, Edith Bland, Edith Nesbit Birch, Reginald Bathurst 1856 1943 Birch, Reginald B. (Reginald Bathurst) Birch, Reginald Bathhurst The Wouldbegoods Produced by Suzanne Shell, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Wouldbegoods" by E. Nesbit is a children's novel written in the early 20th century. This engaging story follows the adventures of the Bastable children, particularly Oswald and his siblings, as they navigate their way through various mischiefs and attempts to be 'good.' The tale is marked by themes of childhood imagination, the desire for adventure, and the quest for morality. The opening of the book presents the Bastable children grappling with the concept of being good after a chaotic incident involving the family’s possessions. Uncle tells the children they resemble "jam" scattered about, leading to their feelings of guilt and desire to reform. They are later sent to the countryside to learn how to behave better, which they acknowledge is less of a punishment and more of a chance for adventure. They arrive at the Moat House where they anticipate fun while trying to establish a "Society for Being Good," a concept that proves both amusing and trying as they wrestle with their intrinsic nature of mischief and curiosity. The stage is set for their humorous efforts and escapades as they reconcile their wishes to be kind and good. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32466/32466-h/images/cover.jpg en Adventure stories Siblings -- Juvenile fiction England -- Juvenile fiction Country life -- Juvenile fiction Children -- Juvenile fiction Families -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 501847 501858 2024-09-13T14:29:29.936204 2023-09-14T08:24:57.954854 text/html text/html 507965 2010-05-21T11:22:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2765756 2010-05-21T11:22:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2789272 2024-09-13T14:29:38.163677 application/epub+zip 2795688 2024-09-13T14:29:31.351202 application/epub+zip 257501 2024-09-13T14:29:30.620154 application/epub+zip 2939583 2024-09-13T14:29:43.157701 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2904467 2024-09-13T14:29:37.306614 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 369910 2022-09-15T04:49:25.015607 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 449391 449160 2024-09-13T14:29:28.395205 2023-09-14T08:24:56.524812 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 449100 2010-05-21T11:22:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 170682 2010-05-21T11:22:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 449095 2010-05-21T11:22:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 170633 2010-05-21T11:22:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22371 2024-09-13T14:29:43.310594 application/rdf+xml 17689 2024-09-13T14:29:30.727209 image/jpeg 2774 2024-09-13T14:29:30.674157 image/jpeg 2771794 2024-09-13T14:29:30.056171 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia