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A Little Princess Mass market paperbound - 1990
by Frances Hodgson Burnett; Afterword by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and first published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905, is a children’s novel that follows Sara, a young girl whose father sent her to boarding school in England. Despite being very privileged, Sara remains kind and generous and befriends several of the more ‘undesirable’ girls at the school. In a cruel twist of fate, Sara is left alone and penniless, working tirelessly at the boarding school she once attended. Through the support of her vivid imagination and friends, she survives until a mysterious benefactor emerges. Sara finally escapes her dire circumstances and spreads joy with her giving nature.
It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel entitled "Sara Crewe: or, What happened at Miss Minchin's boarding school," which was first published in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1887. After she Burnett composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel.The widely acclaimed book has since been adapted into several movies, TV shows, musicals, and other theatre adaptations. Sara was played by Mary Pickford in the 1917 film, and Shirley Temple in 1939 version.
Summary
Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school treat Sara as if she truly were a princess. But when Captain Crewe's fortune is sadly lost, Sara's luck changes. Suddenly she is treated no better than a scullery maid. Her own fierce determination to maintain her dignity and remain a princess inside has intrigued and delighted readers for almost a hundred years, even inspiring a recent popular feature film.
First Edition Identification
The first edition of A Little Princess was published in September 1905 by Charles Scribner's Sons. The first edition of the 1905 book published by Scribner contains 12 full-page color plates done by Ethel Franklin Betts.
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- Title A Little Princess
- Author Frances Hodgson Burnett; Afterword by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition 0100-Anniversary
- Pages 236
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Classics, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1990-12-04
- ISBN 9780451525093 / 0451525094
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 6.82 x 4.22 x 0.67 in (17.32 x 10.72 x 1.70 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 250
- Library of Congress subjects Boarding schools - Fiction, Schools - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90061447
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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