- Fiction, Fantasy, Buried treasure, History
Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, looked after by his unpleasant governess, Sylvia Daisy Pouncer. One night Kay’s great-grandpapa Harker, a sea captain, steps out of his portrait to tell him about a stolen treasure, and Kay embarks on a quest to recover it.
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Resolved, earnest, nostalgic and plot-driven.
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- John Masefield
- First published
- 1927
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- W. Heinemann, Heinemann Young Books, Mammoth
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780140301878
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