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Fiction · 1905 · English

A Little Princess: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

About this book

A Little Princess: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett explores orphans — juvenile fiction, schools — juvenile fiction, boarding schools — juvenile fiction.

From the opening pages: “_I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story--how many parts of it are never told--how much more really happened than there is in the book one holds in one's hand and pores over. Stories are something like letters. When a letter is written, how often one remembers things omitted and says, "Ah, why did I not tell them that?" In writing a book one relates all that one remembers at the time, and if one told all that really happened perhaps the book would never end. Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing. The person who writes the story may never know all of it, but sometimes he does and wishes he had the chance to begin…”

Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett
First published
1905
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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