Burnett: 718 books

Though she is today best remembered for her contributions to the canon of young adult literature, which include the classic The Secret Garden, author Frances Hodgson Burnett also penned a number of novels intended for adult audiences. The complex family drama In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim...

CONTENTS: A.A. MILNE 1. A Hint for Next Christmas ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER 2. The Ghost in the Picture Room ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 3. The Kit-Bag ALICE HALE BURNETT 4. Christmas Holidays at Merryvale ANDY ADAMS 5. A Winter Round-Up ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 6. The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle CECIL FRANCES...

One very special boy weaves some magic in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s sentimental favorite. When young Cedric Errol learns that he is actually a British lord and heir to an estate, his life is transformed. He leaves Boston for Dorincourt Castle to live with his uncle, the Earl—a tyrant who’s loathed by one and all. Will Cedric succeed in melting his cold, cruel uncle’s heart?

The One I Knew Best of All (1893) is a memoir written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The author covers her childhood and girlhood, taking the reader into confidence and depicting the delightful situations and circumstances of her youth. She starts her memoir with the Christmas holidays.

In this moving short story from Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden, a French family finds its social status zooming upward due to a daughter's marriage into an upper-class clan. But the salt-of-the-earth friends and neighbors of the Giraud family are deeply skeptical of what they see as brazen social climbing -- and they aren't shy about expressing their displeasure.

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett is best known for writing books for kids, and her classic A Little Princess, originally published in 1905, is considered one of literature's best children's novels.

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings...

This book contains eighteen beautiful children's short stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett including M re Giraud's Little Daughter, Esmeralda and Little Saint Elizabeth In M re Giraud's Little Daughter, Laure is the favoured child, young and stunningly beautiful she is the pride and joy of her mother,...

An anthology of works by Frances Burnett Miscellaneous Pieces such stories as My Robin Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame The Little Hunchback Zia Mère Girauds Little Daughter One Day At Arle Racketty-Packetty House and Seth and Surly Tim. Esmeralda is about the love between a young couple that is thwarted...

“In each century since the beginning of the world, wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century, more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century, hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light.  At first, people refuse to believe...

THE SECRET GARDEN AND OTHER WORKS includes four classic young reader novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett, including her classics THE SECRET GARDEN, THE LITTLE PRINCESS, LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY, and THE LOST PRINCE.  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

Cultures clash to disastrous effect in this tale from Frances Hodgson Burnett, acclaimed author of titles such as Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden. An American family living in Paris strives to make a splash among the upper crust of their adopted country. The story is told from the perspective...

Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centered child who has been recently orphaned. She is accepted into the quiet and remote country house of an uncle, who has almost completely withdrawn into himself after the death of his wife. Mary over time becomes drawn into the hidden secrets of the...

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,...