The Story of the Treasure Seekers
The Story of the Treasure Seekers is the book that made E. Nesbit’s name, published in 1899, and the first of her tales about the six Bastable children. With their mother dead and their father’s business in trouble, the children set out in a series of well-meaning schemes to restore the fallen fortunes of their house, from digging for treasure in the garden to selling their own poetry and rescuing a stranger they take for a bandit. Narrated by young Oswald with unforgettable and unwitting comedy, the book is warm, funny, and free of preaching, and it changed children’s fiction for good. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete story.
About the Author
E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author and poet who transformed children’s literature with realistic, funny, and magical stories such as The Railway Children and Five Children and It.
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Listen to The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit free online. The full audiobook (4 hr 9 min, 16 chapters, read by Karen Savage) streams free on this page.
The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1898) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Council of Ways and Means | 11:36 | |
| 2 | Digging for Treasure | 10:40 | |
| 3 | Being Detectives | 17:35 | |
| 4 | Good Hunting | 10:04 | |
| 5 | The Poet and the Editor | 10:31 | |
| 6 | Noel's Princess | 13:06 | |
| 7 | Being Bandits | 13:44 | |
| 8 | Being Editors | 17:52 | |
| 9 | The G. B. | 17:10 | |
| 10 | Lord Tottenham | 12:04 | |
| 11 | Castilian Amoroso | 23:57 | |
| 12 | The Nobleness of Oswald | 20:55 | |
| 13 | The Robber and the Burglar | 26:06 | |
| 14 | The Divining-rod | 13:30 | |
| 15 | 'Lo, the Poor Indian!' | 13:55 | |
| 16 | The End of the Treasure-seeking | 16:22 |
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