A novel, 1905
A Little Princess
Seven-year-old Sara Crewe leaves India with her devoted father, Captain Ralph Crewe, to attend Miss Minchin's school in London.
How it begins
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
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About the book
Contents
- Chapter 1: Sara
- Chapter 2: A French Lesson
- Chapter 3: Ermengarde
- Chapter 4: Lottie
- Chapter 5: Becky
- Chapter 6: The Diamond Mines
- Chapter 7: The Diamond Mines Again
- Chapter 8: In the Attic
- Chapter 9: Melchisedec
- Chapter 10: The Indian Gentleman
- Chapter 11: Ram Dass
- Chapter 12: The Other Side of the Wall
- Chapter 13: One of the Populace
- Chapter 14: What Melchisedec Heard and Saw
- Chapter 15: The Magic
- Chapter 16: The Visitor
- Chapter 17: "It Is the Child!"
- Chapter 18: "I Tried Not to Be"
- Chapter 19: Anne
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