A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sarah Now Told for the First Time
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; hardcover without dust jacket; black spine with gold text; boards have severe rubbings to the spine and corners of the panels, and are extremely stained otherwise boards are in tact; text block has limited deckle and pages are severely tanned and have minor tears to some pages but are clean and legible; 266p. 1313589. FP New Rockville Stock.
Synopsis
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.
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- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1313589
- Title
- A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sarah Now Told for the First Time
- Author
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
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