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082			_aFiction BUR-F
100			_aBurnett, Frances Hodgson
245			_aA little princess / _cFrances Hodgson Burnett
260			_aNew Jersey _bP and R Publishing _c1993
300			_a205 p.
365			_aINR _b618.00.
500			_aA Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before". Captain Richard Crewe, a wealthy English widower, has been raising his only child, Sara, in India where he is stationed with the British Army. Because the Indian climate is considered too harsh for children, British families living there traditionally send their children to boarding school back home in England. This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, "Behind the White Brick," allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel.
650			_aYoung Learners
650			_aChildren Fiction
650			_aOrphans
650			_aEngland--London
650			_aBoarding schools
650			_aManners and customs
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aPoverty
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