Bücher von Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Although best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett was considered one of the leading writers in America on the strength of her adult novels, which made her name in the 1870s and 1880s. Ripe for rediscovery, Bello is proud to bring a select group of these classic novels back into print.First published in 1896, A Lady of Quality may have had its beginning "e;in a dark back chamber, revealed at the end of one of the corridors by the chance scratching of a match"e; in Portland Place, where Frances Hodgson Burnett was living. The house had a large basement area with long underground passages leading out to the Mews behind, about which Burnett is said to have remarked, "e;What a place to hide the body of a man you had accidentally killed."e;Thought of as a departure from her previous work, and set in the early Eighteenth Century, the body in question turns out to be that of Sir John Oxon, killed with riding whip by the book's heroine, Clorinda Wildairs: "e;Uncivilised and almost savage as her girlish life was, and unregulated by any outward training as was her mind, there were none who came in contact with her who could be blind to a certain strong, clear wit, and unconquerableness of purpose, for which she was remarkable. She ever knew full well what she desired to gain or to avoid, and once having fixed her mind upon any object, she showed an adroitness and brilliancy of resource, a control of herself and others, the which there was no circumventing. She never made a blunder because she could not control the expression of her emotions; and when she gave way to a passion, 'twas because she chose to do so, having naught to lose ..."e;A Lady of Quality is a novel about the invincibility of the human spirit, the refusal of a woman to be mild and submissive, the acceptance of all experience, and courage born of adversity.

Der Tod seines Vaters hat im Leben des kleinen amerikanischen Jungen Cedrik Errol eine große Lücke hinterlassen. Auch seine Mutter ist nicht mehr die fröhliche Frau, die er früher gekannt hat, und allein schon die Erwähnung seines Vaters treibt ihr die Tränen in die Augen. Mutter und Sohn leben sehr bescheiden in New York, als der Rechtsanwalt Havisham sie mit der unverhofften Nachricht überrascht, dass Ceddie künftig der Erbe eines Grafentitels – Earl of Dorincourt – und eines riesigen Vermögens sein wird. Zwei Brüder seines Vaters sind kinderlos verstorben, so dass der alte Earl nun den Sprössling seines dritten Sohnes, den er wegen seiner amerikanischen Heirat verstoßen hatte, anerkennen und auf seine künftige Rolle vorbereiten muss. Die Sache hat jedoch einen Haken: Ceddie muss nun seine Freunde in Amerika verlassen und in England bei seinem Großvater leben, einem verbitterten alten Mann, der alles andere als umgänglich ist. Zudem darf seine Mutter ihn zwar begleiten, jedoch nicht mit Ceddie auf Schloss Dorincourt leben, sondern muss sich mit einer Wohnung im Dorf begnügen. In England eingetroffen, gewinnt Ceddie durch seine zugleich gewitzte wie mitfühlend freundliche Art bald die Herzen aller – von den Dienstboten bis hin zu seinem griesgrämigen Großvater, der den Erben zunächst sehr skeptisch empfangen hat. Das Glück aller wird jedoch in Frage gestellt, als nun die Witwe des ältesten Grafensohnes auftaucht und einen Sohn präsentiert, der statt Ceddie der eigentliche Erbe sein soll ... Der berühmte Klassiker der internationalen Kinderliteratur nun in einem packenden, mit viel Liebe gelesenen Hörbuch für Jung und Alt!Wer kennt nicht Filme wie "Der geheime Garten", "Der kleine Lord" oder "Sarah, die kleine Prinzessin"? Grundlage hierfür waren Bücher der fantastischen Kindebuchautorin Frances Hodgson Burnett, die noch heute Klein und Groß bezaubern. Die Autorin wurde am 24. November 1849 in Manchester unter dem Namen Frances Eliza Hodgson geboren. Sie arbeitete bei der Zeitung, heiratete und bekam zwei Söhne. Danach trennte sie sich jedoch von ihrem Mann und heiratete Stephen Townsend, der zwei Jahre darauf verstarb. Die weltberühmte Autorin verstarb am 29. 10. 1924.

Li Ye (Mary Lennox) grew up without the love and affection of her parents. After an epidemic leaves her an orphan, Li Ye is sent off to live with her reclusive uncle in his sprawling estate in Nanjing. She learns of a secret garden where no one has set foot in ten years. Li Ye finds the garden and slowly discovers the secrets of the manor. With the help of new friends, she brings the garden back to life and learns the healing power of friendship and love.Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.Level 1 is intended for Chinese learners at an upper-elementary level. Most learners will be able to approach this book after one to two years of formal study, depending on the learner and program. This series is designed to combine simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand storyline which helps learners to expand their vocabularies and language comprehension abilities. The more they read, the better they will become at reading and grasping the Chinese language.