Frances Hodgson Burnett

Emily Fox-Seton ?que tiene treinta y cuatro años, está sola en el mundo y vive en una pensión de mala muerte? se gana la vida haciendo pequeños recados para damas de la alta sociedad londinense. Pero como es enormemente practica y tiene muy buen corazon, poco a poco se va convirtiendo en imprescindible. Por eso, una de estas damas le pide que la acompañe a su mansion en el campo, donde debe tener lugar una gran fiesta con la flor y nata de la sociedad inglesa. Alli coincidira con el marques de Walderhurst, uno de los solteros mas codiciados del pais, al que todas las jovenes de la fiesta intentaran deslumbrar. Pero el marques no tiene especial interes en casarse. O, por lo menos, eso es lo que creia hasta ahora. Frances Hodgson Burnett atrapa al lector desde la primera pagina de esta intrigante novela, con un ritmo in crescendo que se vuelve especialmente inquietante cuando, en la segunda mitad del libro, aparecen unos parientes del marques que pretendian heredar su fortuna.

Frnaces Hodgson Burnett. A Little Princess is a 1905 childrens novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is an expanded version of Burnetts 1888 short story entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchins, which was first serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from 1887 to 1888.

Clásico de la literatura juvenil, en la colección Nuevo Auriga. Texto abreviado, para facilitar la lectura de los más jóvenes.

Tras perder a sus padres, víctimas de una epidemia de cólera en la India, Mary Lennox, una niña enfermiza y de pesimo carácter, viaja hasta Inglaterra para vivir bajo el amparo de su tío. Su nuevo hogar, en el paramo de Yorkshire, es una inmensa mansion cuyas paredes rezuman tristeza y, sobre todo, guardan mas de un misterio. El jardin secreto se convirtio desde su publicacion en 1910 en un clasico de la literatura infantil en lengua inglesa y ha sido considerada la obra mas lograda de F. H. Burnett, que alcanzo la fama como escritora tras la aparicion de su segunda novela, El pequeño lord (1885). La historia de El jardin secreto ha sido llevada al cine en 1993 por la directora Agnieszka Holland.

Published in 1886, the story begins with young long-curly-haired Cedric Errol living in New York with his widowed mother. After inheriting a title and estate, he moves to England, charming all he meets, doing good deeds for those in high and low positions, and encountering plenty of adventures (including a rival claim to his estate) along the way.

Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world . . .

A sensitive portrayal of the world seen through children?s eyes, the secret garden is one of the great classics of story-telling, hugely popular with children and adults alike.

Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school and settle in. But when she learns that she'll never see her beloved father again, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for drudgery and a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness and generosity are all the riches she truly needs? A Little Princess is read by Eleanor Bron.

After the death of her parents, the neglected and spoiled Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle's large and lonely house on the Yorkshire Moors. There she discovers a secret garden and with the help o

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The discovery of a neglected garden transforms the life of a sullen and unloved little girl-and everyone around her, too. When the newly orphaned Mary Lennox leaves her native India and arrives at her uncle's mansion in Yorkshire, everything seems strange to her. Then Mary hears of a mysterious garden where no one has set foot in 10 years. With the help of some new friends, she plans to uncover its secrets...and make it blossom once again.

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