Burnett: 718 books

Book cover of Golden Goose

Golden Goose

The Story of a Peasant Family in Western China

by Xu Liu, David Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019

This book offers an intimate and personal look at what China's poverty alleviation has meant for individuals. The dramatic progress in reducing poverty in China over the past three decades is well known. According to the World Bank, more than 500 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty as...
Book cover of Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
by Edward Burnett Tylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. The author and his fellow-traveller enjoyed many advantageous opportunities of studying the country,...
Book cover of The Blue Flower
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Book cover of Sara Crewe or what happened at Miss Minchin's
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016

In the first place, Miss Minchin lived in London. Her home was a large, dull, tall one, in a large, dull square, where all the houses were alike, and all the sparrows were alike, and where all the door-knockers made the same heavy sound, and on still days—and nearly all the days were still—seemed...
Book cover of Le anime bianche

Le anime bianche

The white people

by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Annarita Tranfici
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 23, 2015

Ysobel è una ragazzina timida e minuta che non ha mai conosciuto i genitori e vive, assieme ai tutori Jean Braidfute e Angus Macayre, in un castello dall’aspetto austero immerso nella desolata brughiera scozzese. Fin dall’infanzia, la bambina mostra di essere dotata di un particolare “dono”...
Book cover of Il Giardino Segreto (The Secret Garden)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Romanzo di formazione, nel quale la viziata Mary Lennox compirà 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 nell'animo dell'enigmatico zio. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano.
Book cover of Il Piccolo Lord (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 18, 2013

Romanzo che narra di Cedric Errol, un ragazzo di 7 anni, che divenuto improvvisamente erede universale delle fortune della famiglia, è costretto a lasciare l'amata New York per essere educato all'aristocrazia in Inghilterra presso il burbero nonno. Attraverso l'infinita bontà del proprio animo riuscirà...
Book cover of Un matrimonio inglese
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 5, 2011

Primi anni del Novecento. Uno degli scambi più frequenti tra le due sponde dell'Atlantico è quello tra titoli nobiliari e grandi patrimoni. Sir Nigel Anstruthers, un nobiluomo inglese ridotto in miseria, si reca a New York in cerca di ricchezza e incontra Rosalie Vanderpoel, diciannovenne ingenua,...
Book cover of Il Giardino segreto

Il Giardino segreto

Ediz. integrale ad alta leggibilità

by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 6, 2017

Classico in versione "alta leggibilità", adatto anche per bambini dislessici: con testo giustificato a sinistra interrotto in capoversi (codificato con il font DYSLEXIE®), spaziatura più ampia e parole non sillabate.  SINOSSI: Mary torna dall'India in Inghilterra dove viene ospitata...
Book cover of Il Giardino segreto

Il Giardino segreto

Ediz. integrale ad alta leggibilità specifico per DSA

by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 7, 2017

Classico in versione specifica per DSA ,approvata dal centro specializzato nei disturbi sull’apprendimento “META!”, realizzata da SociaLibri® con l'obiettivo di facilitare la lettura a chi, pur non avendo deficit cognitivi, incontra maggiori difficoltà a causa di alcuni disturbi specifici...
Book cover of Festival Fireworks
by Ann Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018

Twenty-seven year old Aussie, Jill Kennedy, has arrived in Edinburgh during the festival and staying in her aunt's empty flat. Immediately, she crosses swords with her new neighbour, Andrew MacCallum-Blair. To make things worse, she discovers he’s her boss in the temporary job she’s taken so she...
Book cover of The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy & A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019

"Little Lord Fauntleroy" – In a shabby New York City side street in the mid-1880s, young Cedric Errol lives with his mother in genteel poverty after the death of his father, Captain Cedric Errol. One day, they are visited by an English lawyer with a message from Cedric's grandfather, the...
Book cover of Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Pirates I HOPE you remember that I told you that the story of Barty and the Good Wolf was the kind of story which could go on and on, and that when it stopped it could begin again. It was like that when Tim's mother told it to Tim, and really that was what Tim liked best about it—that sudden way it...
Book cover of Louisiana
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

Nice little romanctic tale of intrigue set in the early days of Louisiana.
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