Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School (Paperback)

from wealhtheowwylfing

This is the draft of "A Little Princess," and far less readable. All the twee sentimentality is emphasized here.

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Before there was A Little Princess - that beloved classic of children's literature that has long been one of the cornerstones of girlhood reading - there was Sarah Crewe, a heroine whose story began, not with the publication of the 1903 novel, but with the serialization of a shorter, earlier vers...

from shakti_truffle

The story of a young girl who goes from riches to rags and back to riches again, striving to keep her goodness throughout her hardships and being rewarded at the end for her efforts... This review is mostly for anyone who has heard of/read the later version of this same story, A Little Princess. ...