![]() ![]() ![]() India, too, was witnessing a tumultuous period in its history, when our freedom fighters were negotiating the terms of independence with Lord Mountbatten and other representatives of the British empire. These books were written in the 1940s, the first one during the thick of World War II in 1942. They always seem to get into one scrape after another-when they find themselves inside the tunnels of Smuggler’s Top, the house owned by Uncle Quentin’s friend, when they follow a circus up in the hills in two caravans, when they go camping on the moorlands and discover “spook-trains-a-running-at-night”. What could it be? And thus begins the first adventure of the Famous Five. And what thrill when they find a wooden box lined with tin with something inside. After a rather heavy storm, the wreck washes ashore and the children are excited because now they have a chance to look for the gold inside the ship. They find an old wreck below the surface of the water, which, according to George, contained gold but no one ever found it. They decide to go to Kirrin Island one day, which belongs to Aunt Fanny, George’s mother, but will one day belong to George. Then of course, there’s Timothy the dog whom George has hidden away at a fisherboy’s house for a year because Uncle Quentin, her father, got annoyed with him and banished him from the house. Julian is 12 years old, Dick and George 11 and Anne 10. ![]()
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