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The Story of the Treasure Seekers

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

by Edith Nesbit

First published 1899 · 144 pages · about 2 hours to read

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The six Bastable children try to restore their family's fortune using a variety of schemes taken from books, including finding buried treasure, rescuing someone from bandits, and starting a newspaper.

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Quotes

  • “This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I think when you have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking.”
    Chapter 1. the council of ways and means
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  • “Our ancestral home is in the Lewisham Road. It is semi-detached and has a garden, not a large one.”
    Chapter 1. the council of ways and means
  • “Oswald won the Latin prize at his preparatory school--and Dicky is good at sums.”
    Chapter 1. the council of ways and means
  • “I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”
    Chapter 2. digging for treasure
  • “There are some days when you seem to have got to the end of all the things that could ever possibly happen to you, and you feel you will spend all the rest of your life doing dull things just the same way.”
    Chapter 16. the end of the treasure-seeking

Passages from the book's public-domain text on Project Gutenberg.

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