Series
Bastable Children
E. Nesbit · 3 novels · 20 short stories · 1 collection · 1898–1905
Six siblings -- Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and H.O. -- set out to restore their widowed father's fortune after a business partner's fraud leaves the family broke, trying everything from digging for buried treasure to playing at highway robbery. E. Nesbit's Bastable novels follow their well-meaning, thoroughly unsuccessful schemes across three books published between 1899 and 1904, mixing believable sibling squabbles with the children's own overactive imaginations. The series is considered an early, influential template for realistic children's adventure fiction.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1890s4
- 1900s20
Shape
3 novels · 20 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:humorcoming of agebritish isles19th centurylightheartedfirst person
Mood
Bright and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 24 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Oswald Bastable and Othersdarkest · calmest
- The Story of the Treasure Seekersbrightest
- The Wouldbegoodsmost intense