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Piccino (and other Child Stories) – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

Child stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett are among the best of their kind. Those terrible “Two Days in the Life of Piccino” are enough to make one shake—with laughter. Piccino was a “Gesu bambino,” pretty as a Christ-child in a picture, who lived with his parents, his sister Maria, and a donkey and a dog, in the outskirts of Ceriani, an old town of the Italian Riviera, and who was early initiated into the art and mystery of drawing soldi out of foreigners’ pockets. A rich English lady took a fancy to see just how pretty a bambino Piccino might be if he were washed, and bought him for the purpose. Then … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

His Grace of Osmonde – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

A remarkable story, which probably marked a unique experiment in fiction at the time it was first published. In it Mrs. Burnett has written the mans’ side of the story, the woman side of which was given in her very successful “Lady of Quality” – and she has thus given an additional piquancy and interest to a story which could not have failed to be most widely read for its intrinsic strength and its forceful delineation of characters.

His Grace of Osmonde

Format: Paperback.

His Grace of Osmonde.

ISBN: 9783849685546

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Biography of Frances Hodgson-Burnett (from Wikipedia):

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Head of the House of Coombe – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

“The Head of the House of Coombe” deals with London before the Great War, and the best drawn character in it is Mrs. Gareth-Lawless, a beautiful but heartless woman. To read of her is to realize the wonderful power personal beauty wields, no matter what the handicap as regards lack of intelligence. The heroine is her daughter, so neglected as a child that until she is six she has never been kissed. Living in dismal upper rooms in a small London house, she knows her mother only as “The Lady Downstairs”. Lord Coombe, from whom the book takes its name, is a rather theatrical character, known all over Europe for … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The White People (and other Stories) – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

This volume contains the following stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of classics like “The Secret Garden” or “Little Lord Fauntleroy”:

The White People
The Little Hunchback Zia
“Seth”
The Dawn Of A To-Morrow
In The Closed Room
Lodusky
The Pretty Sister Of José

The White People (and other Stories)

Format: Paperback.

The White People (and other Stories).

ISBN: 9783849685706

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Biography of Frances Hodgson-Burnett (from Wikipedia):

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children’s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Lost Prince – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

A charming legendary romance of today, having for its hero a boy prince in ignorance of his royal station, who traveled through France as a tramp, secretly carrying a sign and a message to stray men in crowded streets, at palace gates, in forests, and on mountain sides, he himself ignorant of all but that he must obey and pass on in silence. A tale of faerie, touched with mysticism, instinct with romance and courage and the spirit of consecration to an ideal of splendid service.

The Lost Prince

Format: Paperback.

The Lost Prince.

ISBN: 9783849685690

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Biography of Frances Hodgson-Burnett (from Wikipedia):

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

T. Tembarom – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

Imagine Mrs. Burnett saying to herself: “I think I will rewrite Little Lord Fauntleroy for grown-up readers, but instead of having him the carefully nurtured son of a refined and loving mother, he shall have had the harsher training of Dick the bootblack, a product of the New York streets.” Whether consciously or not, that at all events is precisely what Mrs. Burnett has done in T. Tembarom, which mysterious and cryptic name is simply a convenient abbreviation of the hero’s more aristocratic appellation of Temple Temple Barholm. A young man of twenty odd years, who has slept in cellars and barrels, has roughed it from the days of his earliest remembrance and fought his … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...