Archiv der Kategorie: Classics of Fiction (English)

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

An all-time childrens’ classic and a pretty story of a walled-in garden in Yorkshire, which is discovered by little Mary Lennox and a robin. She was a lonely, delicate little girl who had been sent from India to be cared for by an uncle who was twisted in body, and in mind through the tragedy of his young wife’s death. Colin, his little son, is a spoiled invalid, but he and Mary Lennox and a Yorkshire lad called Dickon, who can charm all wild things of the moor, and old Ben Weatherstaff, a crabbed gardener, and the robin all share the “secret garden,” and plant things and trim vines and watch things grow. The … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Shuttle – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

This is decidedly Mrs. Burnett’s biggest novel, and one that has created widespread comment from the readers of the Century Magazine, where it has been appearing in serial form. The plot is based on an international marriage between a rich American girl and a degenerate English nobleman. The wife is very unhappy, and finally her husband makes her break with her own family, but when her sister is grown up she comes to the rescue and takes things into her own hands. She is a splendid type of the modern American girl and a heroine to whom all hearts are offered. The character drawings are particularly life-like, and the whole story is handled with masterful … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

In “Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress ” Mrs. Burnett is at her best. It is the story of two children — a little boy and girl — brought up on a Western farm, where they have been neglected by their aunt with whom they live, and who find their chief happiness in reading Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress ” in a corner of the barn. Just then they hear of what must have been a glimpse of fairyland to so many Western children, the White City of the Chicago Exhibition, and they make up their minds to take their small savings and go to see the wonder. This is their pilgrims’ progress, and their adventures, which … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Emily Fox Seton – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

“The Making of a Marchioness” and “The Methods of Lady Walderhurst,” although actually continuous, were published separately in some countries. “Emily Fox-Seton” is the combination of two in one volume. The rather commonplace hero and heroine, who, however, made such a romantic marriage, remain the same as to disposition, but placid Emily in her placid way goes through the most romantic and exciting adventures.

Emily Fox Seton

Format: Paperback.

Emily Fox Seton.

ISBN: 9783849686154

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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 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

In Connection with De Willoughby Claim – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

The novel consists of two plots or movements. Apparently wholly disconnected, but always, as the logic of events carries them on, bending nearer and nearer, until the principal dramatis personae meet in Washington, the keystone is slipped into place, and lo, the two are one! Mrs. Burnett possesses consummate constructive skill. When this keystone crowns the arch we see that every character and every event has contributed to the symmetry of the whole. Every part has been wrought and fitted with the artist’s instinct for perfection. But analogies cannot be pushed too far, and the similitude of the arch may give a false impression of the two lines along which the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Lady of Quality – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

The period of the tale is the reign of Queen Anne, and it is written in the language of the period—an audacious undertaking when one remembers that such a style must invite comparison with that of ” Henry Esmond.” Mrs. Burnett has written the story of a girl whose mother died in giving her birth, and who has grown to young womanhood under no softer influence than that of her father, who is a swaggering, sporting, hard-drinking squire of those easy-going days. So slight is his interest in domestic affairs that he doesn’t know his own daughter—as she plays about the hall, at six years of age, with the young children of the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Little Saint Elizabeth (and other stories) – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

This volume contains four stories, different in kind, but alike in the grace and spirit of their handling. The pretty tale from which the book borrows its name has for heroine a little French girl brought up in an old chateau in Normandy by an aunt who is recluse and denote. Little Saint Elizabeth is educated very much as her great namesake may have been, in a round of religious observances varied by acts of charity,and is trained to meditate much on the state of her soul and the woes of other people. Her head is filled with legends of saints and martyrs, her heart with zeal to emulate their good … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The One I Knew The Best Of All – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

To say that Mrs. Burnett’s account of ‘The One I Knew Best of All’ is a fascinating book, is to put the matter very mildly. It is not one little girl alone whose experiences are here recorded, but, as the author justly claims, it is the story of any child with an imagination. Mrs. Burnett’s recollections go back to a very early age; she remembers events that happened before she was three years old, and she cannot remember a time when she was not capable of forming decided opinions about things. Mrs. Burnett has written many attractive books—books that have made friends for her all over the world—but she … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...