The Secret Garden: & A Little Princess & Little Lord Fauntleroy - Brossura

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1477419500 ISBN 13: 9781477419502

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

The Secret Garden After the death of her parents, Mary returns from India as an unwanted child, to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the Yorkshire moors. She hated it. Then one day she discovers the key to a secret garden and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon. She meets her sickly cousin Colin who had been hidden away from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them. Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of children's literature. A Little Princess Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school in London. Her father was immensely rich and she became 'show pupil' - a little princess. Then her father dies, bankrupt, Sara is suddenly reduced to a life of poverty and is forced to live in a cold, damp attic and work as a servant, with only her dreams to support her. This much-loved children's story follows the life of this brave young girl. Little Lord Fauntleroy This is a story of a boy from New York who is told he is the heir to an English earldom and enormous wealth. He leaves America with his mother to live in the English countryside where he meets the earl who is a bitter and bad-tempered old man. The boy wins over his grandfather but his identity is challenged, all seems lost, but his old friends from America rescue him.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1477419500
• ISBN 13: 9781477419502
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 620