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The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a novel by E. Nesbit first published in 1899. It tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family.
The Treasure Seekers may refer to: The Story of the Treasure Seekers, an 1899 novel by E. Nesbit; The Treasure Seekers, a 1961 British TV series, based on the novel by E. Nesbit; The Treasure Seekers, directed by Henry Levin; The Treasure Seekers, a made-for-TV movie, based on the novel by E. Nesbit
The Treasure Seekers is a 1996 British television family film directed by Juliet May and starring Camilla Power, Felicity Jones and Kristopher Milnes. In Edwardian Britain, a family have only a few days to raise enough money to stop their home being repossessed. It is based on the 1899 novel The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit.
The Treasure Seekers is a 1979 British-American action film directed by Henry Levin and starring Rod Taylor, Stuart Whitman and Elke Sommer. It was shot on location in Jamaica. It was shot on location in Jamaica.
The novel's complete name is The Wouldbegoods, Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers. The original edition included illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. The Puffin edition (1958) was illustrated by Cecil Leslie. It is a sequel to The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) and was followed by The New Treasure Seekers (1904).
The song had been recorded earlier as an Australian single on the 1964 album Hide and Seekers and appeared on the 1965 American debut, The New Seekers. In December 1966 they issued "Georgy Girl", which became their highest charting American hit when it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Cashbox Top 100 in February 1967.
Many Bastable stories were first published in magazines as standalone pieces, not as parts of serialized novels, but they were later compiled into three episodic novels, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899), The Wouldbegoods (1901), and New Treasure Seekers (1904).
He also suggested the plot of The Railway Children, and her book The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) is dedicated to him, "in memory of childhoods identical but for the accidents of time and space". [4]