Racketty-Packetty House: (Frances Hodgson Burnett Classics Collection) - Softcover

Hodgson Burnett, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1508701334 ISBN 13: 9781508701330

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Racketty-Packetty House was in a corner of Cynthia's nursery. And it was not in the best corner either. It was in the corner behind the door, and that was not at all a fashionable neighborhood. Racketty-Packetty House had been pushed there to be out of the way when Tidy Castle was brought in, on Cynthia's birthday. As soon as she saw Tidy Castle Cynthia did not care for Racketty-Packetty House and indeed was quite ashamed of it. She thought the corner behind the door quite good enough for such a shabby old dolls' house, when there was the beautiful big new one built like a castle and furnished with the most elegant chairs and tables and carpets and curtains and ornaments and pictures and beds and baths and lamps and book-cases, and with a knocker on the front door, and a stable with a pony cart in it at the back. The minute she saw it she called out:

About this title

About the Author:

Frances Hodgson Burnett is the award-winning author of such children s classics as The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. Born in Manchester, England in 1849, Burnett immigrated with her family to Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of sixteen, and there began her career writing stories for magazines, eventually publishing her first novel, That Lass o Lowries, in 1877. The publication of Little Lord Fauntleroy in 1886 cemented her popularity as a children s author, although she continued to write adult fiction as well. Frances Burnett Hodgson died in Long Island in 1924.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1508701334
• ISBN 13: 9781508701330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24