Monatsarchive: Juni 2017

Earlier Stories – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

This volume contains two love stories which appeared long ago in Peterson’s Magazine and marked the beginning of Mrs. Burnett’s literary work. “Kathleen Mavourneen” and “Pretty Polly Pemberton” are all fascinating heroines with the world at their feet; their beauty, grace, and wit are well calculated to charm the impressionable hearts of “maidens in their teens.” Mrs. Burnett’s style was vivid even in those early days.

Format: Paperback.

Earlier Stories.

ISBN: 9783849685584

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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 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Giovanni and the other – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

A little Italian boy with a beautiful voice, who comforted Mrs. Burnett when she mourned for her son at San Remo, is the hero of the first story. It is slightly autobiographical, introducing the writer and her tender reminiscences of her lost boy. “The boy who became a Socialist” is a pleasant sketch of ” Geof,’ her second son. The other stories deal with children she has met all over the world—princes and peasants—and are full of a delightful humor.

Giovanni and the other

Format: Paperback.

Giovanni and the other.

ISBN: 9783849685577

Available at amazon.com and other venues.

Biography of Frances Hodgson-Burnett (from Wikipedia):

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

Surly Tim (and other stories) – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

While the eight short stories which are bound together under the title of “Surly Tim’ and Other Stories,” take in a wide range of subjects, while the characters are distinct and the individuals unlike, there is still a singular oneness in the artistic motive of them all, which gives to them a strong but subtle resemblance, and stamps them as the product of the same mind. “Surly Tim” is one of the most touching and powerful short stories ever to be read, but other stories like “Esmeralda,” “Lodusky,” ” Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame,” etc., show a literary power as varied in scene as it is remarkable in quality.

Surly Tim

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

Available at amazon.com and other venues.

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 ...