The Story of the Treasure Seekers

by Edith Nesbit

Overview

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:	9781981525096
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/08/2017
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English writer of children’s literature. Born in Kennington, Nesbit was raised by her mother following the death of her father—a prominent chemist—when she was only four years old. Due to her sister Mary’s struggle with tuberculosis, the family travelled throughout England, France, Spain, and Germany for years. After Mary passed, Edith and her mother returned to England for good, eventually settling in London where, at eighteen, Edith met her future husband, a bank clerk named Hubert Bland. The two—who became prominent socialists and were founding members of the Fabian Society—had a famously difficult marriage, and both had numerous affairs. Nesbit began her career as a poet, eventually turning to children’s literature and publishing around forty novels, story collections, and picture books. A contemporary of such figures of Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame, Nesbit was notable as a writer who pioneered the children’s adventure story in fiction. Among her most popular works are The Railway Children (1906) and The Story of the Amulet (1906), the former of which was adapted into a 1970 film, and the latter of which served as a profound influence on C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. A friend and mentor to George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, Nesbit’s work has inspired and entertained generations of children and adults, including such authors as J.K. Rowling, Noël Coward, and P.L. Travers.

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