Frances Hodgson Burnett
42) The white people
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A lovely, lilting story set mostly in the misty highlands of Scotland... where almost anything seems possible.
43) Sara Crewe
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Prior to the publication of A Little Princess, Francis Burnett's classic tale appeared in a serialized novella called Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin's. It's the brilliant heartwarming story of a young girl who's driven by love, compassion and an unwavering resilience that leads to an unexpected truth.
Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin's centers on an orphan girl living in a London seminary led by a cruel and neglectful leader.
Despite...
44) T. Tembarom
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If you love to read inspiring stories about dedicated, hard-working types who pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, you'll get a kick out of Frances Hodgson Burnett's T. Tembarom. Our eponymous hero emerges from a wretched childhood to finally realize his dream of making it as a newspaper columnist. When circumstances take him to England, Tembarom finds love—and uncovers some family secrets that change his life in ways he never
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When spoilt young orphan Mary Lennox is brought back from India to live in her uncle's house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds the blunt ways of the staff at Misselthwaite Manor an unpleasant shock. Bored and miserable, it seems as though life in England will be awful. But Misselthwaite has hidden delights and, when Mary begins to discover them, nothing is the same again. First, there is the secret garden and with it comes a boy who knows all the...
51) Le jardin secret
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Collection Folio junior volume 559
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"Privée d'affection, Mary Lennox n'a jamais appris à sourire ni à aimer. A la mort de ses parents, emportés par une épidémie de choléra, la jeune fille a quitté son Inde natale. Exilée dans le manoir lugubre d'un oncle anglais, Mary trompe l'ennui aux côtés d'un rouge-gorge. Un jour, il la guide vers un mystérieux jardin oublié... Mary ouvre la porte de ce refuge à l'intrépide Dickon et au fragile Colin.
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"Little Mary is an orphan, come from India to her relatives in England. Her cousin Colin is a sickly lad, living in the same large cold house that Mary has been sent to. Both children are self-centered and lonely, unhappy in different ways. It is only when Mary finds a rusty old key that opens the long-hidden garden that the two learn to find love and happiness. In the mystery and beauty of nature and living things, Mary and Colin overcome their problems...