The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune

by E. Nesbit

Overview

This book is complete and unabridged and as per its original format.

"The Story of the Treasure Seekers" is a novel by E. Nesbit first published in 1899. It tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family. The novel's complete name is "The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune."

The story is told from a child's point of view. The narrator is Oswald, but on the first page he announces:

"It is one of us that tells this story – but I shall not tell you which: only at the very end perhaps I will. While the story is going on you may be trying to guess, only I bet you don't."

However, his occasional lapse into first person, and the undue praise he likes to heap on himself, makes his identity obvious to the attentive reader long before he reveals it himself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823138697
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/28/2022
Pages:	66
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

E. Nesbit's influence on British and American children's literature rests largely on the following motifs: her protagonists are a set or sets of siblings from a separated or incomplete family. The events of the story take place while the children are isolated as a group,for example, while on holiday. Through magic or complex imaginative play, the children face perils that they quickly overcome. Another notable feature is the depiction of the realistic quarrels and faults of the children.

J. K. Rowling, writer of Harry Potter, ranked Nesbit as one of her favorite authors, and "The Story of the Treasure Seekers" as her favorite of Nesbit's books.