This treasury contains extracts, short stories and other material from across the range of adventure stories and poems written by Enid Blyton. It features the Famous Five, the Secret Seven and other favourites, and underlines Blyton's contribution to 20th-century literature.
List Of Contents: 1.The Secret Cave 2.The Hidey-Hole 3.The Secret Island 4.The Treasure Hunters 5.The Secret of Spiggy Holes 6.Five on a Treasure Island 7.The Secret of Cliff Castle 8.Smuggler Ben 9.Five Go Adventuring Again 10.The Island of Adventure 11.The Mystery of the Secret Room 12.A Night on Thunder Rock 13.Smugglers' Cave 14.The Valley of Adventure 15.Number Sixty-Two 16.The Case of the Five Dogs 17.Five Go off to Camp 18.The Rilloby Fair Mystery 19.Off With the Adventurous Four Again 20.Secret Seven on the Trail 21.The Rubadub Mystery 22.Five Go Down to the Sea 23.Good Work, Secret Seven 24.The Adventure of the Secret Necklace 25.Secret Seven Win Through 26.Just a Spot of Bother! 27.The Five Find-Outers and Dog Tackle the Mystery Sneak Thief 28.A Happy Ending 29.Afterword
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.