Little Lord Fauntleroy

"A moral tale for youth" titled "Little Lord Fauntleroy", created by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), was first published in full in the distant 1886. Thanks to her unwavering, holy faith in the ultimate victory of good, the Anglo-American writer's inherent inventiveness and the touching simplicity of her style, this seemingly straightforward work has been awakening the best feelings in its readers for almost one hundred and forty years.
This edition reproduces the most famous translation of "Fauntleroy" by Nina Mikhailovna Demurova, who noted that the main reason for the worldwide popularity of this book by Frances Burnett lies "precisely in the simplicity and universality of its theme. A little boy, separated from his widowed mother, a stern old aristocrat gradually softening under the influence of an open and noble child's heart - this romantic theme could not fail to win the hearts of readers".
The text of this classic work of world children's literature is adorned with illustrations by Jan Reiser - a contemporary German illustrator, animator, and comic artist.