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The story of a small, angelic boy from New York who is told he is the heir to an English earldom and is whisked away to the English countryside where he begins to win over his bad-tempered old grandfather. When the boy's identity is challenged, his old friends from New York come... Read Full Overview

Little Lord Fauntleroy , written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published in 1886, is the heartwarming story of a boy discovering himself and his place in the world. Little Lord Fauntleroy is a young boy living in poverty in New York City who discovers that he is the heir to... Read Full Overview

"Compellingly readable."--Horn Book
A seven-year-old boy is transported from the mean streets of nineteenth-century New York to the splendor of his grandfather's English manor in this beloved classic of children's literature. Young Cedric is astonished to find himself... Read Full Overview

One of the best books of all time, Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy . If you haven't read this classic already, then you're missing out - read Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett today!

"But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born. And that is best of all, Ceddie, - it is better than everything... Read Full Overview

Cedric did not know that he looked like a young lord; he did not know what a lord was. His greatest friend was the groceryman at the corner-the cross groceryman, who was never cross to him. His name was Mr. Hobbs, and Cedric admired and respected him very much. He thought him... Read Full Overview

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'Lord Dorincourt had occasion to wear his grim smile many a time as the days passed by. Indeed, as his acquaintance with his grandson progressed, he wore the smile so often that there were... Read Full Overview

First published serially in "St. Nicholas Magazine" from 1885 to 1886, "Little Lord Fauntleroy" was the first children's book by the acclaimed English-American author Francis Hodgson Burnett, who would go on to write "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden". "Little Lord... Read Full Overview

Burnett's conviction that love conquers all is memorably embodied in this tale of an American boy who is transported from the mean streets of 19th-century New York to the splendor of his titled grandfather's English manor. "Compellingly readable." - Horn Book.

A nice version with 30 illustrations from the first edition and the 1913 release;

Little Lord Fauntleroy was Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's novel published in 1886. The illustrations by Reginald B. Birch set fashion trends. In a shabby New... Read Full Overview