Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy

Three beloved children''s classics collected in a deluxe illustrated gift edition perfect for every family library

"You are a story—I am a story." Introduce to your family or rediscover for yourself three classic children''s novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an English-born writer who moved to America at age 15 and who now joins the Library of America. This authoritative edition restores the novels to their original American texts, as Burnett wrote them and features over 40 painstakingly restored illustrations—16 in full color—plus a ribbon marker, helpful annotations, and a short chronology of Burnett''s life by her biographer Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook.

In The Secret Garden (1911), spoiled orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live at her uncle''s manor, where she finds an abandoned walled garden. When she decides to restore the garden, she discovers the key to unlocking her own true self.

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