Available Formats
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
By (Author) Edith Nesbit
Illustrated by Peter Bailey
Alma Books Ltd
Alma Classics
2nd February 2021
19th November 2020
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
823.8
Paperback
208
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
186g
Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius (H.O.) Bastable are desperate to help their widowed father to restore the familys fortunes after his business fails. Their moneymaking schemes, from digging for treasure in their South-London garden to becoming highwaymen on Blackheath, mainly lead to a good deal of trouble, until one adventure promises to change everything
I love E. Nesbit I think she is great and I identify with the way that she writes. Her children are very real children and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day. -- J.K. Rowling
English author and poet Edith Nesbit (18581924) is best remembered as E. Nesbit, the name she used for all of her childrens books and stories. She achieved fame for Five Children and It, The House of Arden and The Railway Children, which has become one of the most loved classics of English literature.