The Secret Garden (Bath Treasury of Children's Classics) (Bath Classics)

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Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. Honeysuckle trailing up trees, roses filling the air with sweetness, daisies starry-white in shaggy grass, all slightly dishevelled and un-manicured but rioting with colour and vibrant life. I've downloaded a number of classics to my Kindle recently, books I have loved in the past and wish to have digital copies of for when I am travelling. However the edition that arrived was not the same as pictured therefore unsuitable for our collection. Having recently become an orphan, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle, who swindles him out of his inheritance and arranges for him to be kidnapped and sent out to sea to be sold into slavery.

She is miserable and sour, but eventually comes to meet a variety of people who teach her more about life and help her to develop into a much nicer person. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A more able reader could manage it alone in terms of the actual mechanics of reading, but there are a lot of old-fashioned ideas, values and vocabulary which would need explaining for full understanding or appreciation. The book was about the abuses horses sustained in their lifetimes, but was told from the unique viewpoint of the horse.Mary is an angry, independent and unhappy child, used to being waited on by native servants and getting her own way in everything, and arriving in the cold, blunt North of England is a massive culture shock. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toymaker Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. Product Information: ISBN: 9781786902153 Author: Anna Sewell Publisher: North Parade Publishing Format: Hardback Pages: 228 Dimensions: 22 x 15.

Although Anna Sewell's classic is set firmly in the Victorian period, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.Beautiful colours and great whimsical imagery and elements that told the story and made me feel quite nostalgic. Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. Orphan Anne Shirley is sent by mistake to live with the Cuthberts, who wanted a boy to help with their farm on Prince Edward Island.

Canterbury Classics actually produce three main series to entice the budget collector: the Leatherbound Classics, the Illustrated Classics, and their many volumes of flexibound “word cloud” fiction. Barrie enjoyed telling stories to the sons of a close family friend, and when his older brother died at age 14 in an ice-skating accident, Barrie was inspired to create the story of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up.Anna Sewell’s dependence on horses for transportation gave her keen insights into the lives of animals that most people of her day took for granted, and with Black Beauty, she wove a timeless tale of kindness and compassion for humans and beasts. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Traditional colour and mono illustrations and detailed foiling on the front and back cover, this beautiful copy of Bath Treasury of Childrens' Classics -Kidnapped makes a great gift. When I reach a low point I find concentrating extremely hard, so the kind of reading I normally do is beyond me. La historia la conozco por la película pero en cuanto al estado del libro todo perfecto y por un buen precio.