The House of Arden
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Subjects: Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction; Treasure troves -- Juvenile fiction; Magic -- Juvenile fiction; Time travel -- Juvenile fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 -- Juvenile fiction
Description: <p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-nesbit">Edith Nesbit</a> was a popular children’s author of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras in Britain. Though she was writing more than a century ago, her books nevertheless remain popular and are generally still in print.</p>
			<p><i>The House of Arden</i> was published in 1908. Like her other, perhaps better known tales, such as <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-nesbit/five-children-and-it">Five Children and It</a></i>, the story takes quite ordinary children of the time and plunges them into fantastical adventures.</p>
			<p>In this book, two children, with the interesting Saxon names of Edred and Elfrida, aged 10 and 12 respectively, discover that due to the death of a distant relative, young Edred is now Lord of Arden. The estate consists of not much more than a little money, a crumbling castle, and an attached house. An old retainer tells them of a legend regarding the Lord of Arden and a buried treasure. Naturally they are eager to locate the treasure, which may help them restore the castle. They discover a way to summon up the mascot of the House, a white mole or “mouldiwarp,” who enables them to travel back through time in search of the treasure.</p>