The Secret Garden (Bath Treasury of Children's Classics) (Bath Classics)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story follows the life of the orphaned Mary Lennox as she adapts to life with her mysterious uncle on the Yorkshire moors.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Abandoned by crew and passengers, then shipwrecked in the East Indies on their way to Australia, the Swiss Family Robinson gathers their resources and builds a life over a period of ten years living on a deserted island. Aesop is credited with many fables that have endured for centuries, relating morals and truth to young and old using animals as the main characters in each story. In her eagerness she did not realise how queer the words would sound and that they were not the ones she had meant to say.

She wrote "Black Beauty" when she was in her fifties, but died a year after it was published in 1877. The story tells of childhood emotions and experiences while keeping the central theme - if something is cared for, it will thrive. Burnett was a British American novelist and playwright, best known for her novels Little Lord Fauntleroy , A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden . Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an American-English novelist and playwright.

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Turned out to "play" outside in the extensive gardens Mary slowly comes alive and is enthralled by the idea of one of the walled gardens being shut up and locked for ten years. A collection of the best known of the stories, and one or two less familiar tales, combined with some of the earliest line art illustrations by renowned artists such as George Soper, Rene Bull, John Betten and H. classic fairy tales accompanied by delightful golden age illustrations - 26 full-page color plates and numerous pen and ink images. Having recently become an orphan, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle, who swindles him out of his inheritance and arranges for him to be kidnapped and sent out to sea to be sold into slavery.

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Detailed and intricate, colourful yet not too loud, they show the garden coming slowly to life and the animals the local boy Dickon introduces the others to. However the edition that arrived was not the same as pictured therefore unsuitable for our collection. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toymaker Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio.

She remains quite contrary until she helps her garden grow - and finds someone worse off than herself to bring along for the ride.This series of affordable clothbound children’s classics were originally released in the UK as the Bath Treasury of Children’s Classics, and later distributed in the US as the Canterbury Illustrated Classics series. The Secret Garden, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, has remained one of the most popular children’s books since its publication in The American Magazine in 1910. The Secret Garden introduces us to a sour little girl, Mary Lennox, who is NOT a pleasure to be around. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there where she wrote The Secret Garden.