Publisher's Synopsis
The Shuttle is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published in 1907. The story follows the lives of two American heiresses, Rosalie and Bettina Vanderpoel, who travel to England to find husbands. Rosalie marries into an English aristocratic family, while Bettina returns to America. Years later, Bettina returns to England to rescue her daughter, who has been trapped in an unhappy marriage to an English nobleman. The novel explores themes of love, marriage, class, and the differences between American and English society. With its vivid descriptions of English country life and its strong female characters, The Shuttle is considered one of Burnett's most accomplished works.1907. Burnett, began as a novelist, but she is now best remembered for her children's books including The Secret Garden and Sara Crewe (which was later rewritten to become The Little Princess). Her romance novels were also quite popular during her lifetime. The book begins: No man knew when the Shuttle began its slow and heavy weaving from shore to shore, that it was held and guided by the great hand of Fate. Fate alone saw the meaning of the web it wove, the might of it, and its place in the making of a world's history. Men thought but little of either web or weaving, calling them by other names and lighter ones, for the time unconscious of the strength of the thread thrown across thousands of miles of leaping, heaving, grey or blue ocean. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.