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Nobile, colta, dai modi eleganti, con un ottimo carattere e un certo fascino. Emily Fox-Seton potrebbe essere una moglie ideale… ma è poverissima e ha ormai 34 anni, quindi, per sopravvivere, può soltanto affidarsi alla benevolenza di ricche nobildonne, che non si fanno scrupolo di sfruttare...

"Il giardino segreto", di Frances Hodgson Burnett, pubblicato nel 1911, è un piccolo capolavoro della letteratura giovanile ma non solo, un racconto pervaso di magia, di mistero e di natura, dove i giovani personaggi compiono un percorso di trasformazione e di crescita che li porterà ad apprezzare la vita e le sue meraviglie. Fulcro del romanzo è la ricerca di un giardino segreto che la piccola protagonista Mary vuole mantenere nascosto e inviolato, un giardino che non deve essere profanato dagli adulti, metafora del nostro luogo più intimo e segreto: la nostra anima.

Quando arriva a Misselthwaite Manor, la tetra casa dello zio, Mary è una bambina scorbutica, insensibile e solitaria. Il posto non le piace e ancora meno le persone che ci vivono. Ma presto scoprirà che lì esiste un giardino abbandonato in cui la natura regna indisturbata. Con l'aiuto del suo amico Colin, Mary ne farà un posto magico e segreto, estirpando le erbacce e le paure, coltivando le piante e i sogni.

Mary, a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast, lonely moor. At first she is frightened by this gloomy place until she meets a local boy, Dickon, who's earned the trust of the moor's wild animals; the invalid Colin, an unhappy boy terrified of life; and a mysterious, abandoned garden....

Bambini e ragazzi si possano educare da soli; l'amicizia tra loro può aiutarli a migliorarsi; il lavoro e la vita all'aperto garantiscono un corpo sano e favoriscono un buon equilibrio psicologico: queste sono quindi le tesi educative del romanzo, in netto contrasto con le convinzioni pedagogiche dell'epoca. Ma il libro non precorreva i tempi solo in questo: nella seconda parte del libro vengono affrontate e ben spiegate le teorie del “pensiero positivo” e della ripetizione dei pensieri positivi che è alla base di così tante tecniche cosiddette “magiche”.....

Mary Lennox is a sad and sickly girl. She acts bitter to everyone around her and doesn’t mind that she doesn’t have friends; she doesn’t need them. When she moves to a dark, gloomy manor to live with her uncle, she has no interest in exploring her new home - until she learns that there is a secret locked garden somewhere on the grounds.

In a house full of sadness and secrets, can young, orphaned Mary find happiness? Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty...

Sara Crewe is the brightest, richest, and most generous girl in Miss Minchin's school for girls, and her father gives her everything she might desire. But when her beloved father dies, Sara's friends and prized possessions are suddenly taken away, and she is banished to the attic and forced to...

"The best version of the Cinderella story in modern idiom that exists," is how Marghanita Laski describes Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy. It is the charming story of a seven-year-old American boy, Ceddie Errol, who lives on the edge of poverty in New York. One day he is visited...

This engaging collection of seven classic children’s stories presented by Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre includes Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Secret Garden, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Each story is performed by a...

Cedric Errol is a child living in poverty with his mother in New York City, when all of a sudden, his life is turned upside down. He learns that after the untimely deaths of several distant relatives, he is heir to an enormous estate in England and has inherited the title of Lord Fauntleroy. His grandfather, the earl of Dorincourt, asks that Cedric come to England and begin managing his estate but requires that he leave his mother behind.

To prepare his daughter, Sara, for society, wealthy widower Captain Ralph Crewe enrolls her in Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies. Unspoiled and genial, Sara is given all the luxuries her father can afford - and the obsequious Miss Minchin is happy to indulge. But when her father dies and his fortune is lost, Sara is forced into servitude, stripped of her privileges and possessions, and subjected to Miss Minchin's true cruel nature.

A forgotten key. A hidden door. A garden waiting to come alive. After losing her parents, lonely and disagreeable Mary Lennox is sent to live with her reclusive uncle at Misselthwaite Manor, a vast and mysterious estate on the Yorkshire moors. Surrounded by locked rooms, whispering corridors...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Mary Lennox is a sour, unloved, and neglected child born in India. When a cholera outbreak leaves her orphaned, she is sent to live with her reclusive uncle in the gloomy Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors. Lonely and angry, Mary has nothing to...

Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin’s London boarding school surrounded by every comfort her wealthy father can provide. Intelligent, imaginative, and generous, Sara is treated like a little princess—but she believes that true nobility is measured by how a person treats others. Then...

Born in a stunning château in France and heir to a vast fortune, eleven-year-old Elizabeth finds herself feeling surprisingly impoverished despite her opulent surroundings in New York. With a beautiful suite of apartments, a carriage, a saddle horse, and a host of servants, she is regarded as a grand and mysterious little princess by the neighborhood children, whose lives revolve around her every move. Dive into Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories, a captivating collection of four enchanting tales by F. H. Burnett that explore themes of wealth, childhood, and the magic of imagination. (...

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife 10 years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

The story of an unhappy little girl, her invalid cousin, and the healing power of friendship and love. Reading level: 4.8...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

The orphaned Mary Lennox is sullen, ill tempered, and unloved when she's sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven. A man consumed by grief over the death of his wife, Archibald has allowed his sprawling estate on the moors to fall into grim disrepair. It's when Mary begins tending to her late aunt's mysterious garden - locked up and neglected for years - that she discovers its life-changing secrets and a flowering rejuvenation of the human spirit.