Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Robin

Starting with a summary of the 1922 novel The Head of the House of Coombe, which followed the relationships between a group of pre-WWI English nobles and commoners, this sequel, called Robin, completes the story of...

Linda Andrus 11 hours

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Family

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Fair Barbarian

The setting is a small English village in the 19th century. When her niece shows up on her doorstep unexpectedly, a quiet spinster finds her life turned upside down. (Summary by Linda Andrus)

Linda Andrus and 13 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Emily Fox-Seton

Have you ever wondered what happened to Cinderella after she married the prince? Have you ever asked yourself if it was really «happy ever after?» Actually, in this Victorian melodrama, it's not. 35-years-old Emily...

Caroline Driggs 7 hours 27 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden (version 3)

When Mary Lennox, who has been brought up in India in a spoiled manner, is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor. Here she is treated much differently than she...

ashleighjane 7 hours 15 minutes

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Dawn of a To-morrow

A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city. He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day to purchase a hand gun he had seen in a pawnshop window. The morning...

Linda Andrus 2 hours 3 minutes

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Shuttle

Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She all but loses contact with her family in America. Years later her younger...

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Theo

It's described as «A SPRIGHTLY LOVE STORY» and it is written by F. H. Burnett, «one of the most charming among American writers!» (Summary by Project Gutenberg and Elli)

Neeru Iyer and 3 more 3 hours 13 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy (version 2)

In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or «dearest») in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an...

Susan Umpleby 6 hours

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden (version 2)

Orphaned Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, and finds herself in a house full of secrets and mysteries.

Karen Savage 6 hours 57 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Lost Prince

“The Lost Prince” is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin named The Rat. Marco's father, Stefan, is a Samavian patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom of...

Susan Umpleby 10 hours 38 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Princess (version 2)

Sara is brought to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies by her father, Captain Crewe, because the climate in India doesn't agree with children. After several years as Miss Minchin's show pupil, news comes...

Karen Savage 5 hours 41 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental children's novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885. It was a runaway hit for the magazine and was...

Mary Anderson and 5 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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