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Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines shes a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school. Now, this classic novel is available in two beautiful new collectors editions. With Tasha Tudors enchanting... read more

Memorable Quotes

  • “My mamma says that way of hers of pretending things is silly. She says she will grow up eccentric”
    Lavinia
  • “I suppose she thinks she could be a princess if she was a beggar. Let us begin to call her 'Your Royal Highness'.”
    Lavinia
  • “It's true. Sometimes I do pretend I'm a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”
    Sara
  • “There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.”
    Sara
  • “It's all very well to suppose things if you have everything. Could you suppose and pretend if you were a beggar and lived in a garret?”
    Lavinia

First Sentence

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 gags 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.

Table of Contents

1. Sara
2. A French lesson
3. Ermengarde
4. Lottie
5. Becky
6. The diamond mines
7. The diamond mines again
8. In the artic
9. Melchisedec
10. The Indian gentleman
11. Ram Dass
12. The other side of the wall
13. One of the populace
14. What Melchisedec heard and saw
15. The magic
16. The visitor
17. It is the child!
18. I tried not to be
19. Anne

Series

This book is in the Penguin Classics series.

This book is in the Unabridged Classics series.

 

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