The Story of the Treasure Seekers

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.

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.

1. The Council of Ways and Means2. Digging for Treasure3. Being Detectives4. Good Hunting5. The Poet and the Editor6. Noël's Princess7. Being Bandits8. Being Editors9. The G. B.10. Lord Tottenham11. Castilian Amoroso12. The Nobleness of Oswald13. The Robber and the Burglar14. The Divining-Rod15. "Lo, The Poor Indian!"16. The End of the Treasure-Seeking