A Little Princess - Softcover

Hodgson Burnett, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1503250474 ISBN 13: 9781503250475

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2020

Synopsis

A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialised novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine. According to Burnett, she had been composing a play based on the story when she found out a lot of characters she had missed. The publisher asked her to publish a new, revised story of the novella, producing the novel. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." It was one of the "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal.

About this title

About the Author:

Frances Hodgson Burnett is the award-winning author of such children s classics as The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. Born in Manchester, England in 1849, Burnett immigrated with her family to Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of sixteen, and there began her career writing stories for magazines, eventually publishing her first novel, That Lass o Lowries, in 1877. The publication of Little Lord Fauntleroy in 1886 cemented her popularity as a children s author, although she continued to write adult fiction as well. Frances Burnett Hodgson died in Long Island in 1924.

Review:

'Bright, beautiful and enchanting ... ' --New York Times

'A Little Princess exquisitely re-creates the ephemeral world of childhood, an enchanted kingdom where everything, even make-believe, seems possible ...' --Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1503250474
• ISBN 13: 9781503250475
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122