Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.
Poor Sara Crewe. Once upon a time her beloved father pampered and adored her. But ever since he died, leaving her alone and penniless, she's been caught in the cruel clutches of Miss Minchin, the headmistress at the Select Seminary for...

This is the story of the arrogant English aristocrat reformed by his grandson, brought up in the classless society of New York. Charles Brock, the Punch artist who epitomized the stereotype of the reserved, shy English gentleman, illustrated the book for an edition first published in 1925.

A 1901 novel for adults about a young woman who married a Marchioness and the melodrama that follows. It features a Preface by Isabel Raphael and Afterword by Gretchen Gerzina.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

An unabridged edition of The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Burnett, with drawings by C. D. Williams

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'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'

Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden.

A classic children's tale that includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that appeal to the Etsy trademark]-loving world of handmade crafts.

Now this is the story about the doll family I liked and the doll family I didnt. When you read it you are to remember something I am going to tell you. This is it: If you think dolls never do anything you dont see them do, you are very much mistaken.

Frances Hodgson Burnett is considered to be one of the greatest writers of Children's stories. This volume contains her three most well known stories: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy, with The Lost Prince and a number of short stories. The contents are: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Racketty-Packetty House, The Lost Prince, Little Saint Elizabeth and other stories, Land of the Blue Flower, Sara Crewe or What Happened At Miss Minchin's Boarding School.