- Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Imagination, Moneymaking projects in fiction
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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Classical in form, warm, resolved and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Edith Nesbit
- First published
- 1899
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Purnell, Blackstone Audiobooks, Independently Published
- Editions
- 653
- Language
- English, heb, German, und
- ISBN
- 9781697452440
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“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.”
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.
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