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Read A Little Princess in Englishwith every sentence explained
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905
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About the book
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett was first published in 1905. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked beginner and filed under children. It runs to about 66,200 words.
Rich one day, penniless the next — but still a princess inside.
Seven-year-old Sara Crewe arrives in foggy London from India with her adoring father, Captain Crewe, who leaves her at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies. With her silk dresses, her special doll Emily and her very own pony and carriage, Sara is the school's star pupil — and its richest.
Yet she is never spoiled. Clever, kind and full of stories, she befriends the slow, teased Ermengarde, little Lottie and Becky, the overworked scullery maid. Sara likes to pretend she is a princess, because a princess, she believes, must be generous and brave whatever happens. Then, on her eleventh birthday, terrible news arrives — and that belief is put to the hardest test.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1905 novel is a tender tale of imagination and courage.
- Author
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- First published
- 1905
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children
- Length
- About 66,200 words
How it opens
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 gas 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.
Reading A Little Princess in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of English and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
