A Little Princess-小公主

作者：Burnett Frances Hodgson

书名：A Little Princess《小公主》

中文简介：七岁的莎拉‧克璐（Sara Crewe）是个与众不同的小女孩。母亲生她时就去世了。六岁以前她和父亲克璐上尉（Captain Ralph Crewe）都住在印度，七岁才回到英国读书。莎拉家财万贯，父亲为她花多少钱都愿意，也常常戏称她为“小公主”。但是莎拉从不因此而自满。她喜欢读书，也喜欢自己编故事、讲故事，而且常常假装自己是位公主，期许自己一定要学习公主的大家风度。

英文简介：Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature.

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.