The complete online text of The Land of the Blue Flower by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

During her own lifetime Frances Hodgson Burnett was best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), the story of a disinherited American boy who charms his irascible English grandfather and wins back his rightful title and fortune. The book's immediate int...

Frances Hodgson Burnett is chiefly remembered for her children's book The Secret Garden (1911). With its rich mythic resonances and detailed portrayal of its child protagonists, the novel is hailed as one of the classics of children's literature. Her big...

English-born American author Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) had a long and productive writing career, during which she penned 55 titles, 5 of which became best-sellers and 13 of which were adapted for the stage. Although remembered primarily for her...

The late eighteenth century is fascinating not least because it was the era of the American and French Revolutions as well as the birth of modern notions of democracy. It was also the age when the modern ideas about heterosexual romance that still...

The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald. Houghton Mifflin, 1997. $12 (paper). Michael Cunningham's The Hours, published last fall to admiring reviews and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for the year's best work of fiction, bravely offers as...