UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks

Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices

Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!

More about Pixie

Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Book Overview: 

Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neighbor, Miss Sylvia Trevor.

How does All You Can Books work?

All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just USD $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.

Book Excerpt: 
. . .By and by the three brothers arrived in a body, letting themselves into the house with a latch-key, and talking together in eager undertones in the hall. Bridgie sat still with a mischievous smile on her lips, and presently the drawing-room door was noiselessly opened for half a dozen inches, and round the corner appeared a brown head, a white forehead, and a pair of curious brown eyes. Sylvia’s cheeks were as pink as her dress by the time that those eyes met hers, but she was the only person to show signs of embarrassment.

“Pat” came forward to shake hands with swift cordiality, followed in succession by Jack and Miles, and the three big brothers stood beside the sofa, looking down on their guest with kindly scrutiny. Pat’s twinkling smile was an augury for future friendship; Miles’s air of angelic sympathy was as good as a tonic; while the rapt gaze of Jack’s fine eyes seemed to imply that never, no never, had he beheld a girl who so absolu. . . Read More

Community Reviews

The second book sees the pairing off and romances of some of my favorite secondary characters, and I really loved seeing their happiness. Bridgie and Jack deserved their happily ever afters, and I was impatient to see that the brother and sister got them with their respective love interests. Pixie's

Volume two of this trilogy and perhaps the best of the three, Mrs. G de HV writes volume two from the eyes of a neighbor girl in London who is recovering from a long illness and first admires the family from her window. (One is reminded painfully of the sort of convalescence one might frequently hav

A little less about Pixie and more about her siblings, but still refreshing!

Naive, old-fashioned (even prejudiced e.g. to Irish). Many times I was bored. Nonetheless, it was perfect to listen to while cleaning, cooking, etc., because it was also sweet and funny, and one doesn't have to be focused 100%.

[It was probably written as a kind of guide for young girls (like most of