A Little Princess

Penguin classics

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

242 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2002 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-243701-8
OCLC Number:: 47296394

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Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

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3 stars

This was interesting to read coming right off of Little Lord Fauntleroy (also by Burnett). While you can tell it's the same author, the tone is quite different. Fauntleroy is loaded with brilliant dry humor to go with the feel-good emotional strings being pulled. This bears a much stronger resemblance to her most famous book, The Secret Garden. It's sort of like a mix of the two, but with plenty of its own unique elements.

Of the three, Fauntleroy is easily my favorite because of the brisk pace and humor. But I think this would deserve another read some day.

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4 stars

Reread this book recently and it still holds a lot of charm despite the somewhat dated morality. A young girl, rich enough to be a princess, is suddenly made destitute when her father's investments go bad and he dies in India, leaving her to become the lowest of servants at the Enflish school she was boarding at.

Throughout this extreme poverty and near starvation she struggles to remain positive, imagining luxury and love when there is none to be found, and trying to act like a princess despite her trials (nowdays princess has more negative connotations, but when this book was written it simply meant she tried to hold her actions to a higher standard). All this of course pays off to an eventual happy ending.

A simple story I suppose - it's a children's book after all - and a bit heavy handed on the morals as are all …