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Download or read book The Head of the House of Coombe written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Head of the House of Coombe is a 1922 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Head of the House of Coombe follows the relationships between a group of pre-World War One English nobles and commoners. It also offers editorial commentary on the political system in prewar Europe that Burnett feels bears some responsibility for the war, and some pointed social commentary Burnett wrote a 1922 sequel to The Head of the House of Coombe, Robin which completes the story of Robin, Lord Coombe, Donal and Feather.
Download or read book The Head of the House of Coombe written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett was considered one of the leading writers in America on the strength of her adult novels, which made her name in the 1870s and 1880s. Ripe for rediscovery, Bello is proud to bring a select group of these classic novels back into print. The Head of the House of Coombe is the first of two volumes which were first serialised in 1920 in Scribner's Monthly, before being published in 1922. Together with the second volume, Robin, the 'House of Coombe' novels comprise Frances Hodgson Burnett's last substantial work. Returning to a theme that occurs again and again in her books - that of the change from riches to poverty - The Head of the House of Coombe contains Burnett's most dramatic manifestation of this idea, along with a potent sense of the old order breaking up in the years prior to the First World War.
