A Little Princess — The Companion Edition (eBook)
A show pupil, an attic, and a little girl who decides that a princess is what you are when nobody is watching.
This is Frances Hodgson Burnett's complete *A Little Princess* — all nineteen chapters, unabridged, in the text of the 1905 Charles Scribner's Sons book edition, the expanded book form of *Sara Crewe* (1888), not the shorter novella — collated against a Scribner printing of that edition, with Burnett's own preface "The Whole of the Story" restored (Project Gutenberg omits it) and all twelve of Ethel Franklin Betts's 1905 colour plates reproduced, cropped caption-free with the edition's captions beneath. Sara Crewe arrives from India as Miss Minchin's show pupil; on her eleventh birthday her father is dead, his fortune gone, and she is put to work in the attic. What she practises there — "supposing," a discipline of imagination with rules — is the book. Around the novel sits a companion written for reading together, in book clubs, classrooms, and families: an original introduction on the book's making from novella to play to the 1905 retelling; a Who's Who of Miss Minchin's; explainers on supposing, on diamond mines, lascars and ayahs — the India of the book, on the seminary and the servants' hall, and on the road from *Sara Crewe* to the 1905 book; a short life of Burnett; a period-context note that addresses the book's colonial-era India framing plainly; a four-meeting reading schedule; and thirty-six discussion questions, spoiler-fenced by meeting, so the ending's specifics stay sealed until Burnett opens them.
The novel's text is public domain. All companion material is original to this edition. This is an independent publication, not affiliated with or endorsed by any film or stage adaptation. (Burnett did not write this book as a Christmas book, and this regular edition claims no season for it.)
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