Frances Hodgson Burnett

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.

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.

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.

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Esta obra recibiu unha subvención da Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade da Xunta de Galicia Mary Lennox é unha consentida rapaza que, tras a morte dos seus pais na India debido a unha e

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Mary Lenox no es una niña simpática: la falta de atención y afecto convirtió a esta pequeña en un ser amargado, rencoroso y tiránico. Sin embargo, tras una terrible serie de sucesos, Mary se ve obligada a cambiar de pais e irse a vivir con su tio. Un dia, tras estar jugando en el jardin, con su inusual amigo el pelirrojo, Mary descubre la llave de un jardin que ha permanecido cerrado durante diez años. A partir de este momento su vida empieza a cambiar, y todo lo que ella sabia de la amistad, del afecto, e incluso de ella misma, se tornara diferente, transformando por completo a la pequeña Mary. Frances Hodgson Burnett nos enseña la gran importancia que tiene el amor para el desarrollo saludable de los niños. El jardin secreto es, indudablemente, una novela que encantara tanto a niños como adultos.

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

Il giardino segreto e un romanzo per ragazzi scritto nel 1910 dalla scrittrice anglo-americana Frances Hodgson Burnett. Il romanzo narra il processo di crescita di due fanciulli, Mary e Colin, grazie alle cure fornite da un giardino segreto, un giardino circondato da mura che anni prima era stato teatro di un grave incidente, a seguito del quale laccesso era stato reso impossibile . Bambini e ragazzi possono educarsi da soli, lamicizia tra loro puo aiutarli a migliorarsi, il lavoro e la vita allaperto garantiscono fin dalla giovane eta un corpo sano e favoriscono un buon equilibrio psicologico: queste sono quindi le tesi educative del romanzo, in netto contrasto con le convinzioni pedagogiche dellepoca, secondo le quali solo la guida, linsegnamento e la vigilanza degli adulti potevano garantire una buona educazione di bambini e adolescenti.

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

Romanzo di formazione, nel quale la viziata Mary Lennox compira una graduale maturazione alla scoperta dei piccoli valori e le gioie della vita nella brughiera dello Yorkshire tanto da renderla capace di ridare coraggio ed un senso alla vita del cuginetto Colin e riportando la pace nellanimo dellenigmatico zio. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano.