With their mother dead and their father’s business failing, the six Bastables of Lewisham Road set out to find treasure. They dig in the garden, play detectives, become bandits, publish a newspaper and try a divining-rod, all narrated by Oswald, who insists he will not tell you which of them is telling the story.
Nesbit’s first children’s book, from 1899, and a model of how to write funny, honest children. Download the free EPUB.