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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 Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens “The Pickwick Papers” is the one novel of Dickens that abounds neither in pathetic, grewsome, nor dramatic passages. It is pure fun from beginning to end, with a laugh on every page. It attained immediate success and laid the foundations of Dickens’s fame. The types illustrated are caricatures, but […]
Aesop’s Fables For Children
Aesop’s Fables For Children – Aesop Aesop’s Fables For Children – and won’t the young folks revel in it! The best of the old fables are here and all in a fine new dress – so wittily pictured by Milo Winter and so delightfully retold that Aesop himself would chuckle with the children over his […]
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 History Of Scotland – Volume 4: From the massacre of Glencoe to the end of Jacobitism
The History Of Scotland – Volume 4: From the massacre of Glencoe to the end of Jacobitism – Andrew Lang This is volume 3, covering the time from the early 17th century to the death of Dundee. In four volumes of more than 1500 combined pages the series „The History of Scotland“ deals with something […]
The History Of Scotland – Volume 3: From the early 17th century to the death of Dundee
The History Of Scotland – Volume 3: From the early 17th century to the death of Dundee – Andrew Lang This is volume 3, covering the time from the early 17th century to the death of Dundee. In four volumes of more than 1500 combined pages the series „The History of Scotland“ deals with something […]