The Story of the Treasure Seekers

by E. Nesbit

Overview

When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well-meant efforts are either more fun than profitable, or lead to trouble -- until one adventure has quite unexpected results.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788826000602
Publisher:	Qasim Idrees
Publication date:	02/28/2018
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	500 KB

About the Author

Edith Nesbit wrote more than 40 books for children, several of which have been adapted many times for film, including Five Children and It and The Railway Children. She is best known for her collections and re-tellings of classics such as Stories from Shakespeare for Young Readers, also available from Dover.

Table of Contents

	'E. Nesbit and the Bastables'	1
1	The Council of Ways and Means	10
2	Digging for Treasure	21
3	Being Detectives	32
4	Good Hunting	48
5	The Poet and the Editor	59
6	Noel's Princess	69
7	Being Bandits	81
8	Being Editors	94
9	The G.B.	111
10	Lord Tottenham	127
11	Castilian Amoroso	139
12	The Nobleness of Oswald	159
13	The Robber and the Burglar	178
14	The Divining-rod	201
15	'Lo, the Poor Indian!'	214
16	The End of the Treasure-seeking	227

Editorial Reviews

"Her child characters were remarkable in her day because they are so entirely human. They are intelligent, vain, aggressive, humorous, witty, cruel, compassionate . . . in fact, they are like adults." —Gore Vidal


"E. Nesbit remembered exactly what it felt like to be a child." —Jacqueline Wilson, author, Girls in Love

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