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Earlier Stories
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 […]
Giovanni and the other
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 […]
Surly Tim (and other stories)
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, […]
Piccino (and other Child Stories)
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 […]
His Grace of Osmonde
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 […]
The Head of the House of Coombe
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 White People (and other Stories)
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 Format: Paperback. […]
The Lost Prince
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 […]
T. Tembarom
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.” […]
The Secret Garden
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, […]