A Little Princess - Couverture souple

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9388369084 ISBN 13 : 9789388369084

Editeur : Fingerprint! Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchins Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesnt quite like it. I dont like it, papa, she said. But then I dare say soldierseven brave ones dont really like going into battle. The apple of her fathers eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a princess, which she often pretends to be. But just after her eleventh birthday, when the news of her fathers death arrives, everything changes. Will Sara Crewe's imagination help her cope up with the loss and hardships? One of the all-time childrens novels, Frances Hodgson Burnetts A Little Princess is a remarkable story. It has been adapted for films, theatre, musicals, and television, and continues to remain popular more than a century after its publication.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Cheetham, Manchester, England, on November 24, 1849, Frances Hodgson Burnett developed her love for reading at a very young age. With an active imagination, she wrote stories and enjoyed narrating them to her mother, cousins, and friends. In 1868, Burnetts first story was published in Godeys Ladys Book. She had begun writing for a livelihood and wrote non-stop. That Lass o Lowries, her first full-length novel, was published in 1877. She started writing childrens fiction after meeting Louisa May Alcott and Mary Mapes Dodgethe editor of St. Nicholas, a childrens magazine. In the winter of 1887, she published Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchins in the United States. A Little Princess, an expanded version of Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchins, was published in book form in September 1905. A huge success, it is still considered among childrens all-time favourite novels. Burnett published The Secret Garden in 1911. A classic of childrens literature, it became one of her most popular novels.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fingerprint! Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9388369084
• ISBN 13: 9789388369084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible