Frances Hodgson Burnett

Cuando un petirrojo ayuda a la solitaria y fastidiosa Mary Lennox a encontrar una misteriosa llave, ella no imagina el viaje que emprenderá a traves de la amistad y la reconstrucción de un fascinante jardin abandonado. Con sorprendentes mecanismos de papel, podras explorar los pasillos de la remota mansion de Yorkshire, introducirte entre la hiedra para encontrar la puerta oculta del jardin e incluso ver como crecen las plantas a lo largo de las estaciones. Adaptada cinematograficamente en numerosas ocasiones, El Jardin Secreto de Frances Hodgson Burnett cobra vida como nunca antes en esta impresionante edicion llena de conmovedoras ilustraciones y elementos interactivos creados por el galardonado estudio de diseño MinaLima.

New friendships and new beginnings abound in The Secret Garden, now available as an unabridged paperback edition for todays young readers. When Mary Lennox begins living with her uncle in the English countryside, she feels bored and lonely. Before long, however, she discovers many mysteries hiding within the walls of the estate. What will it take for Mary to unearth these secrets? This unabridged edition of the beloved twentieth-century classic is perfect for young readers libraries.

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them. The Secret Garden is one of the best-loved stories of all time.

Frances Hodgson Burnett (Manchester, 1849-New York, 1924) es la autora, un tanto en sombra, de tres celebrados clásicos infantiles reeditados y traducidos a numerosas lenguas durante más de un siglo y llevados repetidamente al cine y la television: El pequeño lord (1885), La princesita (1905) y El jardin secreto (1910).En El pequeño lord, la autora, inglesa emigrada a Norteamerica y de una familia venida a menos por la muerte del padre, nos cuenta la historia de Cedric, un pequeño huerfano neoyorquino que viaja a Inglaterra tras descubrirse que es el unico nieto de un viejo aristocrata ingles que lleva un vida solitaria en un imponente castillo, desengañado ya de todo. El reto del siempre natural y animoso Cedric sera conquistar el endurecido corazon del anciano. El del abuelo, que creia no esperar ya nada de la vida, el no menos dificil reto de sentir cariño de nuevo, de dejarse conquistar.Aunque nacida en Inglaterra, se considera a Frances Hodgson Burnett como americana por haberse establecido muy joven en los Estados Unidos, donde contrajo matrimonio por dos veces, la segunda con un escritor. Fue tambien alli donde concibio y publico todas sus obras.Conocedora y amante de sus dos patrias, la nativa y la de adopcion, y consciente de las profundas diferencias temperamentales que existian entre ambas, parece como si la escritora hubiese querido en El pequeño lord estrechar los lazos que habian de unir la vieja metropoli con su excolonia, poniendo de relieve que las excelencias del caracter ingenuo y democratico de la gran republica no se oponian a las exquisitas maneras y a la constitucion tradicional y aristocratica de la vieja Inglaterra.Y para ello escogio un asunto sencillo, emotivo y simpatico, un verdadero cuento de hadas, el cual ha cautivado a grandes y pequeños a traves de repetidas ediciones y varias adaptaciones cinematograficas.

Centenario Frances Hodgson Burnett (1924-2024)El jardín secreto es uno de los clásicos más populares de la literatura infantil de todos los tiempos, y a cien años de la muerte de su autora no ha perdido un apice de su encanto. Cuenta la historia de Mary Lennox, una niña de clase alta en el Raj britanico que queda huerfana y a cargo de su tio, el huraño y jorobado Archibald Craven. Tras mudarse a su mansion en el norte de Inglaterra, a la que rodea un inmenso paramo, Mary descubrira la felicidad de las cosas sencillas, el poder del afecto y la bondad sinceros, la belleza que florece aun en medio del abandono, y la magia que, aunque esta en todas las cosas, requiere perspicacia para atraparla.

Inglaterra, 1877. El joven Gaston Framleigh, oficial de la Guardia, descubre que al otro lado de la calle, en una pequeña y humilde casita, reside una encantadora y vivaracha joven por la que se siente absolutamente cautivado... hasta que descubre su profesión: la preciosa Polly Pemberton es actriz de teatro, actividad del todo inadmisible a los ojos de un joven de noble cuna tan arrogante y engreído como él. No obstante, y a pesar de la mutua antipatía inicial, pronto empiezan a ser frecuentes sus visitas a la casa de los Pemberton, donde Gaston es bien recibido por la preciosa Polly —que reside junto a su aya y su poco respetable tío— hasta que ambos son advertidos del exceso e inconveniencia de dichas visitas...

Un clásico entrañable cuya vigencia permanece intacta.Mary Lennox tiene diez años y ha perdido a sus padres por culpa de una epidemia que ha azotado la India. Tras su defunción, Mary viaja desde el pais del Ganges a Inglaterra para instalarse en la mansion de su tio, una imponente casa de casi cien habitaciones. Alli descubrira un jardin misterioso cerrado con llave cuyo acceso esta completamente prohibido. Un lugar magico que jamas habria podido imaginar. En contacto con la naturaleza y en compañia de dos niños, Mary vivira una serie de cambios decisivos.

Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house.There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden ... which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.

Una niña en «el cuarto diurno de los niños, un sitio lóbrego e inhóspito en una casa estrecha en una calle estrecha… pero en el elegante barrio de Mayfair. La madre se llama Amabel, pero todo el mund

Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines shes a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school.

The Head of the House of Coombe follows the relationships between a group of preWorld War One English nobles and commoners. It also offers both some interesting editorial commentary on the political system in prewar Europe that Burnett feels bears some responsibility for the war and some surprisingly pointed social commentary

A tale with the glamor of medieval romance, which centers about the mystery that five hundred years before Marcos day, the young prince of the kingdom of Samavia had walked away over the mountains, singing, and had never been heard from. And Marco, a lad of twelve, pledged to the future service of Samavia, lives an unpretentious, wandering life, trained in all worthy things by his father, til his journey as Bearer of the Sign is ended, and his appointed time has come.

A Lady of Quality is a novel published in 1896 by Frances Hodgson Burnett that was the second highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. It was the first of series of successful historic

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible.

"A Little Princess" is one of Frances Hodgson Burnetts most loved stories. It is the story of young Sara Crewe who while growing up in a well to do household suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at Miss Minchins boarding school. To survive those hard times she imagines herself to be a little princess as she awaits her rescue from a mysterious benefactor.

Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives. She was taken care of primarily by servants, who pacify her as much as possible to keep her out of the way. Spoiled and with a temper, she is unaffectionate, angry, rude and obstinate. Later, there is a cholera epidemic which hits India and kills her mother, father and all the servants. She is discovered alone but alive after the house is empty. She is sent to Yorkshire, England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven at his home called Misselthwaite Manor.

A Lady of Quality is a novel published in 1896 by Frances Hodgson Burnett that was the second highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. It was the first of series of successful historic