Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Simon and Schuster, 2004 - Fiction - 261 pages

At the age of sixteen Frances Hodgson Burnett moved to Tennessee with her bankrupt family and began writing for American magazines as means to support herself. Over two decades later Burnett published Little Lord Fauntleroy, modeling the character after her son Vivian. Burnett's text and Reginald Birch's original illustrations helped popularize a very romantic style of dress for boys -- a velvet suit with a broad lace collar -- in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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User Review  - bensdad00 - LibraryThing

A character that I've constantly seen referenced but had never read. It is definitely a product of its time; slow to start and with an extremely dry wit that still caused my family to laugh out loud ...

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User Review  - vonze - LibraryThing

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sweet tale about a father-less, American boy named Cedric who finds himself the heir to an English earldom. The story is sorta in the vein of other classic books, like Anne ...

Contents

• A Great Surprise: 1
• Cedrics Friends: 16
• Leaving Home: 52
• In England: 61
• At the Castle: 68
• The Earl and his Grandson: 108
• At Church: 141
• Learning to Ride: 152
• The Poor Cottages: 166
• The Earl Alarmed: 176
• Anxiety in America: 205
• The Rival Claimants: 221
• Dick to the Rescue: 235
• The Exposure: 244
• His Eighth Birthday: 251

About the author

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester, England, but moved to America as a teenager. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and was dramatized during Burnett's lifetime. The story lives on today in videos and movies. Though she began writing novels for adults, she gained lasting success writing for children. She is best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

Polly Horvath is the Newbery Honor author of Everything on a Waffle. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy; Aladdin Classics; Essential collection; Puffin classics
• Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Contributor: Polly Horvath
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2004
• ISBN: 0689869940, 9780689869945
• Length: 261 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Values & Virtues