The Story Of The Treasure Seekers

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Mint Editions
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1513269739

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit Pdf

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) is a children's novel by English writer Edith Nesbit. The first book in Nesbit's beloved Bastable trilogy--which also includes The Wouldbegoods (1901) and The New Treasure Seekers (1904)--The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a story of family, adventure, and mystery for children and adults alike. The Bastable siblings--Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius--are clever and curious children who live with their widowed father. When their mother died, their father became ill and lost his successful business, forcing the family to live modestly. Inspired by stories of buried gold and jewels--and hoping to help their struggling father--the Bastable children decide to go searching for treasure. Their adventure soon takes them to London, where they abandon digging for the allure of paying work. The Bastables come up with several schemes to make money, including writing poetry, banditry, and starting a newspaper, in the process discovering the power of imagination and the true value of home. The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a masterpiece of children's fiction from Edith Nesbit, one of the twentieth century's children's authors. Originally published as a series of stories in several different periodicals, The Story of the Treasure Seekers was Nesbit's first novel for children. It would go on to influence both Arthur Ransome and C.S. Lewis, and is a favorite of J.K. Rowling's. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Edith Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a classic of English children's literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : E Nesbit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798710900093

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers Illustrated by E Nesbit Pdf

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; its sequels are The Wouldbegoods (1901) and The New Treasure Seekers (1904). 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 original edition included illustrations by H. R. Millar. The Puffin edition (1958) was illustrated by Cecil Leslie.

Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Wouldbe goods by E. Nesbit Pdf

I think myself that descriptions of places are generally dull, but I have sometimes thought that was because the authors do not tell you what you truly want to know. However, dull or not, here goes—because you won’t understand anything unless I tell you what the place was like...FROM THE BOOKS.

Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781528787550

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The House of Arden by E. Nesbit Pdf

“The House of Arden” is a 1908 children's novel written by English poet and author Edith Nesbit. The story revolves around Edred and Elfrida Arden, two children from a poor background who inherit an old, run-down castle and attempt to track down their lost family fortunes which would enable them to restore it to its former glory. Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924) was an English poet and author. She is perhaps best remembered for her children's literature, publishing more than 60 such books under the name E. Nesbit. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, which had a significant influence on the Labour Party and British politics in general. Other notable works by this author include: “The Prophet's Mantle” (1885), “Something Wrong” (1886), and “The Marden Mystery” (1896). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Edith Nesbit,Cyril Walter Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:4564204

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New Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit,Cyril Walter Hodges Pdf

Author : Thea Stilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338306187

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The Treasure Seekers (Thea Stilton and the Treasure Seekers #1) by Thea Stilton Pdf

Join the Thea Sisters as they travel the world in search of the seven hidden treasures! The Thea Sisters are on a new adventure! It all begins when they discover a diary belonging to an old explorer. It tells the legend of seven mysterious treasures. The girls find themselves on a search for the first treasure: the mythical Ivory Garden. Could it be real?

Author : Dana Mentink
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373445264

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Final Resort by Dana Mentink Pdf

Ava Stanton has no need for love or tales of hidden treasure—until her uncle is kidnapped at her family's ski resort. Now she needs help from professional treasure hunter Luca Gage…the man she'd tried to forget. Signs point to a fortune hidden in the mountain, and Ava and Luca need to find her uncle before his assailant finds them. As their search for treasure draws them closer together, Ava must decide how long she'll run from love. She doesn't have much time, because something is buried under Whisper Mountain—and someone is willing to do anything to get to it.

Author : Roberta Seret
Publisher : Wayzgoose Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Treasure Seekers by Roberta Seret Pdf

In this final installment of the Transylvanian Trilogy, childhood friends Marina and Cristina become amateur investigators, traveling from New York City and Paris to Istanbul to learn more about a web of crime among the countries’ leaders. Romanian leader Ceausescu had traveled to Tehran three days before he was executed on Christmas day, 1989, with suitcases filled with gold—gold that was never found. In their travels, the women risk their lives but deepen their friendship. Treasure Seekersexplodes with crime, passion, and a love story for the ages. But above all, it is about uncovering political truths.

Author : Thea Stilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338687231

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The Legend of the Maze (Thea Stilton and the Treasure Seekers #3) by Thea Stilton Pdf

Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on an adventure to find the seven secret treasures! The search for the seven secret treasures continues. In this incredible adventure the Thea Sisters come across the legendary Jewel of the Queen. They cross rivers of ice, deserts of fire, and other fascinating places on their journey to find it.

Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25T06:12:21Z
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PKEY:00BD805DF49DEA6C

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit Pdf

This is the story of the six Bastable children: Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noël and little Horace Octavius, known as H. O. Due to their mother tragically passing away and their father’s business partner running away with the money, the ancient and most noble House of Bastable, as the children like to call it, has fallen. In order to restore their family fortune the resourceful siblings go on a hunt for treasure; but whether they dig for gold in the garden, or try to open up a sherry business, their treasure-hunting always ends up getting them in trouble. The Story of the Treasure Seekers was the first novel for children written by Edith Nesbit, and today it is one of her most well-known. The stories of the Bastable children were first published between 1894 and 1899 in a variety of periodicals. For the one-volume publication in 1899 the order of the stories was changed, and several of the stories underwent extensive rewriting. This and her later novels inspired several later writers of English children’s literature, amongst them C. S. Lewis, who references the Bastable children in The Magician’s Nephew. The Story of the Treasure Seekers spawned two sequels, The Wouldbegoods in 1901 and New Treasure Seekers in 1904. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : Virago
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780349009544

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit Pdf

When their widowed father's business fails, the Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes themselves. No longer able to afford school, the children have all the time in the world to devise ingenious money-making schemes: from digging for treasure in their Lewisham garden to becoming highwaymen on Blackheath Common. All too often their efforts lead to trouble rather than treasure, until one adventure finally pays off... Published with illustrations by Gordon Browne, newly scanned from the original edition. The Story of the Treasure Seekers is the first book in the Bastable trilogy, which continues with The Wouldbegoods and New Treasure Seekers. 'She's the children's writer with whom I most identify. [Nesbit] said, "By some lucky chance, I remember exactly how I felt and thought at 11." That struck a chord with me. The Story of the Treasure Seekers was a breakthrough children's book. Oswald is such a very real narrator, at a time when most people were writing morality plays for children' J. K. Rowling 'I loved the direct first-person narrative in the clear, forthright tones of Oswald Bastable' Jacqueline Wilson 'Endlessly surprising and inventive. But she is more than that ... She is also simply the funniest writer we have ever had, while being the one who could most easily and sweetly break your heart with a phrase. Just try saying "Daddy oh my Daddy" without catching your breath. She made the magic worlds feel as near as the Lewisham Road and she bathed the Lewisham Road in magic' Frank Cottrell-Boyce A collection that will be coveted by children and adults alike, this list is the best in children's literature, curated by Virago. These are timeless tales with beautiful covers, that will be treasured and shared across the generations. Some titles you will already know; some will be new to you, but there are stories for everyone to love, whatever your age. Our list includes Nina Bawden (Carrie's War, The Peppermint Pig), Rumer Godden (The Dark Horse, An Episode of Sparrows), Joan Aiken (The Serial Garden, The Gift Giving) E. Nesbit (The Psammead Trilogy, The Bastable Trilogy, The Railway Children), L. M. Montgomery (The Anne of Green Gables series) and Susan Coolidge (The What Katy Did Trilogy). Discover Virago Children's Classics.

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0370010655

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The Bastables by Edith Nesbit Pdf

Author : D'Arcy O'Connor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493039166

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Secret Treasure of Oak Island by D'Arcy O'Connor Pdf

It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates. The notorious Captain Kidd was rumored to have left part of his treasure somewhere along here, and as McGinnis and two friends started to dig, they found what turned out to be an elaborately engineered shaft constructed of oak logs, nonindigenous coconut mats, and landfill that came to be known as the Money Pit. Ever since that summer day in 1795, the possibility of what might be hidden in the depths of a small island off the south coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, has made it the site of the world's longest, most expensive, and most perplexing treasure hunt. Author D'Arcy O'Connor recounts the fascinating stories and amazing discoveries of past and current treasure seekers who have sought Oak Island's fabled treasure for over two hundred years. It has baffled scientists and madmen, scholars and idiots, millionaires and get-rich-quick schemers, psychics, engineers, charlatans, and even a former president of the United States. The island has consumed the fortunes-and in some cases, the lives-of those who have obsessively set out to unlock its secret. Despite all their efforts, the mystery remains unsolved, and not a single dime of treasure has ever been recovered. The present-day search is an archaeological dig exceeding anything ever done anywhere for similar purposes, and it may well result in the discovery of one of the world's richest and most historically significant treasures. But this is also the story of individuals who have dedicated years of their lives to discover what was buried long ago beneath this strange island. They are driven by a lust for gold, by archaeological curiosity, and by their determination to outwit the engineer who was responsible for the Oak Island enigma.

Author : Menachem Kaiser
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328506467

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Plunder by Menachem Kaiser Pdf

A New York Times Critics’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance—material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798669382650

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers-Original Edition(Annotated) by Edith Nesbit Pdf

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 Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family; its sequels are The Wouldbegoods (1901) and The New Treasure Seekers (1904). The novel's complete name is The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune.