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Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett, C.E. Brock, Reginald Birch ISBN: 0679444742 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44
Rating: 5
Summary: The New World comes to the Old World
Comment: This delightful story has a reputation for being very sentimental, and it is, but it is also filled with humour. Cedric Errol, an all-American boy, discovers to his dismay that he is the heir to an English earldom, and has to go to England to live with his stern old grandfather, who despises Americans (he must have been reading the Guardian, I suppose). Gradually they learn to like each other, and the grandfather even comes around to liking Cedric's American mother. There is a melodromatic sub-plot involving a false heir, but the story is really interesting enough without it. The best character in the book is Cedric's friend Mr. Hobbs, a staunchly Republican grocer who despises earls "I'd like to catch one of em inside here; that's all!" he tells Cedric, before he knows Cedric is one of them "I'll have no graspin tyrants sittin round on my buiscuit barrels!" By the end of the book though, he has become so attached to Cedric that he sells his grocery business and settles in England, where he becomes an avid follower of aristocratic doings. He says he'll never return to America "It's a good enough country for them that's young and stirrin - but there's faults in it. there's not an aunt-sister among em - nor an earl!" Which pretty much sums up how I feel about America too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow: is the only thing that I can say...
Comment: This is an excellent book. The man who wrote the book is called F.H.Burnett (Francis Hodgson Burnett).
I read this book because my sister was telling me all day long to read it. Now I have to say thanks to her, because it's a great book, what's more, is one of the best books I've ever read.
It is about a boy called Cedric Errol. He's not only intelligent but also kind and beautiful. He used to live with his father and his mother, but his father died, so he started trying to make his mother happier.
One day, he was in the corner with her close friend Hobbs (he is a man, not a boy), when the woman that works in his house, Mary, went to the corner to tell to Cedric that he have to return to his house. There he saw a man... This man was called Mr.Havisham, he was the lawyer of Cedric's grandfather. This man was there to go with Cedric and his mother to Dorincourt (that was the castle of his grandfather). Cedric would become a Lord, Lord Fauntleroy. At first, he doesn't like that but then...all the things change.
The lawyer of his grandfather gave him a lot of money to do what he wanted. The surprise was that Cedric, instead of buying things for himself, decided to help other people. For example: he helped the old woman that sold apples in the street to buy a shop.
When Cedric met his granfather, he thinks that his grandfather is the kindest man in all the world, but this opinion is not the same that the poor people that lives there have.
Cedric and the countess become very close. But suddenly, a woman appeared telling to all the people that her son was the real Lord Fauntleroy. This new Lord was very stupid and he was not what we can call "beautiful". Obviouslly, the countess doesn't accept that this stupid boy was the son of his son, and he starts investigating.
Here I have to stop, if not I will tell you all the book, no?. Well, I recommend this book, it is really amazing!!!
Andre (=_0)
Rating: 3
Summary: Classic Role for Shirley Temple
Comment: This story is admittedly sentimental and even syrupy, but admirers of Frances Hodgeson Burnett won't care! If you've enjoyed The Little Princess and The Secret Garden, you surely will want to read her third famous children's classic. The seven-year-old American protagonist is simply too sweet and good-natured to be true; his widowed mother is a study in patient suffering.
Suddenly informed that her son is the heir to an Earldom in England, the mother gives up her homeland to restore her son to his rightful legacy. But his crusty old grandfather
(who cast out his youngest son when he married a mere American) proves mean and selfish-universally hated by his tenants. Now this unexpected grandson may be his last chance--not only to continue the family name and honor, but more importantly, for the old man's personal growth.
It's a challenge for American readers to understand the dialogue which Burnett often presents in dialect, while ignoring the distinction between New Yorkese and British peasant slang. Neverthless, this book is a gently told tale which will touch those unjaded readers who remain. The underlying theme may be that of the restorative power of innocence.
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Title:A Little Princess ASIN: 6304698623 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $11.99 |
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Title: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha Tudor ISBN: 006440188X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title:Little Lord Fauntleroy ASIN: B00006L918 Publisher: Gotham Distribution Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $7.98 |
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Title: The Railway Children (Puffin Classics) by C. E. Brock, Edith Nesbit ISBN: 0140366717 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title:Little Lord Fauntleroy ASIN: 6303011594 Publisher: Starmaker/Anchor Bay Pub. Date: 10 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.99 |
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