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A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In foggy London, little Sara is taken to a boarding school.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Intermediate3,568 characters · ≈ 6 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.

She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.

She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was,…

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About the book

A Little Princess is a work by English-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett, appearing as a 1888 novella, a 1902 play, and a 1905 children's novel. It follows Sara Crewe, a wealthy girl and prize student at a private London boarding school who is reduced to poverty and forced to work as a servant under the school's cruel headmistress. The story's development across these three forms offers an interesting look at how Burnett reworked her material.

About the author

Frances Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

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