When Cedric Errol, a young, impoverished American boy, loses his father it seems that he and his mother are in a dire situation, until a lawyer representing wealthy English Lord pays a visit offering a new life. It turns out that Cedric is Lord Fauntleroy, heir to a vast estate in England. The Earl of Dorincourt, Cedric's grandfather, intends to mold to precocious and kind Cedric in to a proper English aristocrat but the dour old Englishman soon finds himself learning about compassion from his ward. Having to deal with a pretender to his title and the Earl's disdain for his American mother, Cedric must also adapt to his new life and learn to become Lord Fauntleroy. Hugely popular in it's day, Little Lord Fauntleroy sparked a fashion trend for the suits worn by Cedric and has been called the "Harry Potter of its time".
An anthology of works by Frances Burnett, Miscellaneous Pieces such stories as My Robin, Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame, The Little Hunchback Zia, Mere Girauds Little Daughter, One Day At Arle Racketty-Packetty House, and Seth and Surly Tim. Esmeralda is about the love between a young couple that is thwarted by an ambitious mothers who wishes to marry her daughter off to a Marquis. The Land of the Blue Flower is a work that revives faith in goodness and hope.
FULLY ILLUSTRATED. The One I Knew the Best of All traces the early life of Frances Hodgson Burnett. In it she relates her earliest memories as a child in a North Manchester middle-class home and, following her father's death, in Salford. Although a well-behaved little girl she relates her fascination with "back street" children and their language - the Lancashire dialect - which she sets out to learn. At the same time she provides a vivid description of the differences in the lives of those who laboured to produce Lancashire's wealth and those who took possession of it. Finally she deals with the American Civil War - the consequent Lancashire Cotton Famine - its devastating effects - her family's impoverishment and subsequent flight across the Atlantic. Here, in Tennessee, they make a new life, and Frances is forced to examine ways they can make a living. A brilliant, entertaining and thought provoking read. Published in support of The Working Class Movement Library, Salford, M5 4WX.
After losing her parents in an earthquake, a young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive uncle. There she discovers a magical secret garden that once belonged to her aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dickon, Mary sets out on a quest to bring love back to her family. Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
As he watched the painful flickering of the damp and smoking wood and coal he remembered this and thought that there had been a lifetime of such awakenings, not knowing that the morbidness of a fagged brain blotted out the memory of more normal days and told him fantastic lies which were but a hundredth part truth. He could see only the hundredth part truth, and it assumed proportions so huge that he could see nothing else. In such a state the human brain is an infernal machine and its workings can only be conquered if the mortal thing which lives with it—day and night, night and day—has learned to separate its controllable from its seemingly uncontrollable atoms, and can silence its clamor on its way to madness.
Published in 1909, The Dawn of a Tomorrow by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a work seeped in realism and religious convictions. It portrays one of the wealthiest and most influential men in England in the throes of despair being led to faith through his brief acquaintance with the poorest of society. The author asserts complete and unbending belief bears fruit and brings hope.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that made a huge impact on the 19th century public, shaping everything from boys' clothing fashions to copyright law. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly found to be the heir of the Earl of Dorincourt. Saying loving goodbyes to his working-class friends, Cedric goes to England together with his mother to embrace his new fortune. His grandfather, the old earl, is a bitter old man ridden with gout and a foul temper, trusting no one. However the angelic boy elicits a profound transformation in the grandfather, which not only benefits the castle household but the whole populace of the earldom. If only the old man's heart would soften toward Cedric's estranged mother, the family would be healed at last. And when another potential heir to the earldom makes a claim, it seems that everything is lost.... But all things are possible through a child's innocent trust, true friendship, and unconditional love.
The story of a young orphan who finds a long-neglected garden and is awakened by its magic. Mary Lennox, born in India to an English official and his beautiful, self-absorbed wife, is a thoroughly disagreeable little girl -- so selfish, spoiled, and tyrannical the local children call her 'Mistress Mary Quite Contrary'. After the death of her parents, Mary is sent to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors. Her uncle is a forbidding man, the house is old and gloomy -- and Mary is sure she hears crying from somewhere down its dark corridors. Since even a disagreeable child needs to keep busy, Mary begins exploring the grounds surrounding the house and discovers a walled garden. Led by a bird to its well-hidden door, Mary enters the prettiest, most mysterious-looking place imaginable. Her joy increases when Dickon, a local boy, joins her in the garden, teaching her about bulbs and seeds, and making things grow. And when Mary finally encounters her lonely, sickly cousin whose crying had haunted her imagination, the garden's magic works its real wonders, transforming the gloomy household into a place of courage, hope, and love. Exquisite, richly detailed full-colour illustrations capture the beauty and romance of Mary and her secret garden. The original, unabridged text from 1911 is presented in a handsome contemporary design with two-colour printing throughout, and 16 beautiful full-colour illustrations reproduced on heavy glossy stock.
A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before". The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (also publisher of St. Nicholas) with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First
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