The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics) - Softcover

Nesbit, E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486815234 ISBN 13: 9780486815237

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2017

Synopsis

From the author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It comes this tale of six siblings and their adventures in Victorian London. The Bastable children are deeply saddened by the death of their mother, and to make things worse, they're impoverished when their father's business fails. Determined to restore both the family's fortune and its good name, the young Bastables embark on a variety of hilarious get-rich-quick schemes.
Each chapter details a new adventure, from digging for treasure and becoming detectives and highway robbers, to writing a newspaper and selling wine. The children accost a nobleman on Blackheath and are mistaken for blackmailers, pay a visit to a moneylender, encounter a royal princess in Greenwich Park, and earnestly pursue other comic ventures. Their courage and determination provide a heartwarming complement to the droll narrative, and their hopes, disappointments, and triumphs remain as real and moving today as they were a century ago.

About this title

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.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0486815234
• ISBN 13: 9780486815237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208