Secret Garden - Brossura

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1853261041 ISBN 13: 9781853261046

Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993

Riassunto

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden

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Recensione

It is only the exceptional author who can write a book about children with sufficient skill, charm, simplicity, and significance to make it acceptable to both young and old. Mrs. Burnett is one of the few thus gifted. --The New York Times

L'autore

Frances Hodgson Burnett lived from 1849 to 1924. She was born in Manchester and lived in great poverty after the death of her father in 1853. She escaped the horror of her surroundings by writing stories and often returned to a rags-to-riches or a riches-to-rags theme. In 1865 her family accepted a relative s invitation to emigrate to America. They were still poor but the wide open spaces of Tennesssee were better than the slums of Manchester. Frances had to earn money so began writing short pieces for American magazines. In 1873 she married Dr Swan Burnett, and it was under her married name that she became a world-famous children s writer.Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote over forty books; the two that are best-known today are The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy. In later life she became rather eccentric, turned to spiritualism and mystic cults and took to wearing frilly clothes and titian-coloured wigs this earned her the nickname Fluffy ."

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• Editore: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1853261041
• ISBN 13: 9781853261046
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 224