A Little Princess
About this book
This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a doll, Sara becomes a servant of the household. Hated by the schoolmistress for her independent spirit, Sara becomes a pariah in the household, with only a few secretly loyal friends. But through her inner integrity and strength of will, Sara Crewe maintains the deportment, inner nobility and generous spirit of a "real" princess.
Subjects
- boarding school
- boarding schools
- boarding schools, fiction
- boarding schools -- juvenile fiction
- charity
- child and youth fiction
- children’s
- children's fiction
- children's plays
- children's stories
- children's stories, english
- crewe, sara (fictitious character), fiction
- england, fiction
- england -- london
- father
- fiction
- friendship
- girls
- girls -- juvenile fiction
- historical fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- lascar
- london (england), fiction
- london (england) -- juvenile fiction
- london (england) -- social life and customs -- juvenile fiction
- manners and customs
- orphans
- orphans, fiction
- orphans -- juvenile fiction
- poor girls
- princesses, fiction
- ram das
- schools
- schools, fiction
- schools -- juvenile fiction
- social life and customs
- translations into russian
- young adult fiction