The Story of the Treasure Seekers

E. Nesbit · 1899 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

Their mother is dead, their father's partner has ruined him, and the six Bastable children set out to restore the fortunes of the house by every method a child can think of: digging in the back garden, turning detective, rescuing a stranger, going into the sherry trade. One of them is writing the account and swears he will not say which, though he cannot help recording how well Oswald behaves throughout. Nesbit's first children's book invented a comic voice that English writing has been borrowing ever since.

Open The Story of the Treasure Seekers in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Lineage

• ↓ The Wouldbegoods
  E. Nesbit · 1901 CE · Novel — continues this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• The Wouldbegoods
  E. Nesbit · 1901 CE · Novel

  64% · 16 shared
  NovelComedyComing-of-AgeComing of AgeFellowshipVictorianInnocentTricksterEverymanEpisodicThe Gardenvs Societyvs SelfComicIronicEnglish
• American Pie
  Paul Weitz · 1999 CE · Film

  58% · 12 shared
  ComedyComing-of-AgeComing of AgeFellowshipInnocentTricksterEverymanEpisodicThe Housevs Societyvs SelfComic
• The Japanese Family Storehouse
  Ihara Saikaku · 1688 CE · Short Story

  55% · 12 shared
  ComedyWealth & GreedClass & InequalityTricksterEverymanEpisodicGold / TreasureThe Housevs Societyvs SelfComicIronic
• The Commitments
  Roddy Doyle · 1987 CE · Novel

  53% · 13 shared
  NovelComedyComing-of-AgeClass & InequalityFellowshipTricksterEverymanEpisodicvs SocietyComicIronicRealistEnglish
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
  Roddy Doyle · 1993 CE · Novel

  53% · 13 shared
  NovelComing-of-AgeComing of AgeClass & InequalityInnocentEverymanEpisodicThe Housevs Societyvs SelfComicRealistEnglish
• Tortilla Flat
  John Steinbeck · 1935 CE · Novel

  53% · 12 shared
  NovelComedyWealth & GreedFellowshipTricksterEverymanEpisodicGold / TreasureThe Housevs SocietyComicIronic