These Little Ones
Author: first_name: E.
last_name: Nesbit
Language: English
Year: 1909

A collection of short stories for adults, mainly about children in hard times. The title references Matthew 18:6, which verse Nesbit includes as the collection's epigram, and from which we may infer a connecting theme: "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."  (Summary by Nicole J. LeBoeuf)