Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Burnett’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 21 novels, with individual contents tables
* Rare novels like HAWORTH’S appearing in digital print for the first time
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Many famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork, with hundreds of illustrations
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Many rare short stories and novellas available in no other collection
* Easily locate the short stories you want to read
* Includes Burnett’s autobiography – explore the author’s personal memoires
* Special ‘Contextual Pieces’ section, with contemporary articles, reviews and essays evaluating Burnett’s life and works
* Features a bonus biography – discover Burnett’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Novels
THAT LASS O’LOWRIE’S
DOLLY: A LOVE STORY
THEO
HAWORTH’S
A FAIR BARBARIAN
THROUGH ONE ADMINISTRATION
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
A LITTLE PRINCESS
THE TWO LITTLE PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS
A LADY OF QUALITY
HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE
IN CONNECTION WITH THE DE WILLOUGHBY CLAIM
THE MAKING OF A MARCHIONESS
THE METHODS OF LADY WALDERHURST
THE SHUTTLE
THE SECRET GARDEN
T. TEMBAROM
THE LOST PRINCE
THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF COOMBE
ROBIN
The Shorter Fiction
SURLY TIM AND OTHER STORIES
PRETTY POLLY PEMBERTON
LOUISIANA
A WOMAN’S WILL
THE PRETTY SISTER OF JOSÉ
LITTLE SAINT ELIZABETH, AND OTHER STORIES
HOW FAUNTLEROY OCCURRED
IN THE CLOSED ROOM
THE DAWN OF A TOMORROW
RACKETTY-PACKETTY HOUSE
THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER
THE GOOD WOLF
BARTY CRUSOE AND HIS MAN SATURDAY
THE COZY LION
MY ROBIN
THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK ZIA
THE WHITE PEOPLE
The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Autobiography
THE ONE I KNEW THE BEST OF ALL
Contextual Pieces
LIST OF ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND ESSAYS
The Biography
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT by E. F. Harkins and C. H. L. Johnston