A Little Princess
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became a 'show pupil' - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables...
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Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became a 'show pupil' - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781853261367 (185326136X)
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
'A Little Princess' is the story of young Sara Crewe. She is brought by her father from India to be boarded and educated in London at a select school. Her father arranges for her to have a ridiculous abundance of luxuries - which, somehow, don't spoil her - and special priviledges from the headmistr...
Gorgeous introspective book. Reading this right after The Secret Garden, it's easy to be amazed and enchanted by Hogson Burnett's ability to transport the reader to that state in childhood where the mundane is made magical with barely a flick of the mind. I reckon that's one of the draws of these bo...
I used to love the movie when I was a kid, so I guess it's not surprising that I adored the book as well -the book was a product of its time and the style of it has definitely aged (the sheer amount of ejaculations in it!) - but overall the idea still remains - it is this really positive, really opt...
One of my favorites from my childhood.
Yep. I cried with a kid's book.
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