A Little Princess

by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

• ISBN13: 9780064401876
• ISBN10: 0064401871
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of "A Little Princess," one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature. This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1888 novella "Sara Crewe" and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, "Behind the White Brick," allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C.Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel.

Author Biography

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), author of The Secret Garden, and Little Lord Fauntleroy, enjoyed wider popularity in her own time with both adult and child readers than many other writers Nancy Bond, Newbery Honor author of the fantasy novel A String in the Harp, as well as many other books for young readers, lives in Concord, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

Sara	p. 1
A French Lesson	p. 18
Ermengarde	p. 27
Lottie	p. 39
Becky	p. 52
The Diamond Mines	p. 69
The Diamond Mines Again	p. 85
In the Attic	p. 116
Melchisedec	p. 132
The Indian Gentleman	p. 150
Ram Dass	p. 169
The Other Side of the Wall	p. 184
One of the Populace	p. 197
What Melchisedec Heard and Saw	p. 214
The Magic	p. 222
The Visitor	p. 259
"It Is the Child!"	p. 283
"I Tried Not to Be"	p. 294
Anne	p. 313
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