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A Little Princess - Unabridged

By Frances Hodgson Burnett & Kevin Theis
A Little Princess - Unabridged by Frances Hodgson Burnett & Kevin Theis digital book - Fable

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"A Little Princess" is Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel of privilege, hardship and redemption. It is regularly listed among the finest children's books ever written and has been adapted to the stage and screen dozens of times.

Young Sara Crewe lives the life of a princess. Born to rich father who dotes on her, she enjoys all the trappings of wealth: carriages, fine clothing, servants...anything her heart desires. As her father - a Captain in the British Army - is stationed in India, Sara is sent to an all-girls boarding school in England where she is afforded every luxury, including a maid and a private room. But when her father dies and his fortune dries up, Sara finds herself a penniless orphan, abused by her guardian and forced to work at menial jobs to scratch out an existence.  

A beautiful story of survival, friendship and the power of the human spirit,"A Little Princess" is ranked fifty-six on the School Library Journal's list of the one hundred greatest children's books of all time. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format, just as it first appeared in print in 1905.

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About Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a British-American author best known for her children's novels "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1886), "A Little Princess" (1905) and "The Secret Garden" (1911) but she also wrote a number of popular books for adults as well, including "The Making of a Marchioness" (1901) and "The Head of the House of Coombe" (1922). Born in Manchester, England, Frances and her family emigrated to America after her father died and they settled in New Market, Tennessee. Frances began her writing career at nineteen, publishing stories in local magazines. In 1873, she married Swan Burnett who became a doctor and their son Lionel was born the following year. After living briefly in Paris (where they had their second child, Vivian), the family settled in Washington D.C. where Burnett began to write novels. While her children's books were very popular, her adult fiction also sold well. The Burnett's often traveled to England in the 1880's and eventually bought a home there, but after the death of Lionel in 1890 of tuberculosis, Frances sank into a depression, an ailment with which she struggled for much of her life. She divorced Swann in 1898, remarried in 1900 and divorced again in 1902. She settled in Nassau County, New York where she continued her writing until her death in 1924.

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