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Fiction, Novel
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Hardback)
- Page : 199
- ISBN : 9789394885035
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. ?When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchin?s Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesn?t quite like it. ?I don?t like it, papa,? she said. ?But then I dare say soldiers?even brave ones?don?t really like going into battle. ?The apple of her father?s eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a ?princess?, which she often pretends to be. But just after her eleventh birthday, when the news of her father?s death arrives, everything changes. Will Sara Crewe’s imagination help her cope up with the loss and hardships?One of the all-time children?s novels, Frances Hodgson Burnett?s A Little Princess is a remarkable story. It has been adapted for films, theatre, musicals, and television, and continues to remain popular more than a century after its publication.
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English Classics
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice Gerstenberg
When Alice spots a rabbit running frantically to a rabbit hole, she follows him to stumble into a strange world where animals talk, cat’s wield strange magic and cards walk around like humans. As if that is not enough, she must stand up to testify for new friends in a court against the wicked souled, Queen of Hearts.
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Classic Fiction
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (Hardback)
- Page : 178
- ISBN : 9789356520301
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
“It is good people who make good places.” Well-born and well-bred, the handsome horse named Black Beauty spends his early days with his mother at an English farm. Treated with affection and kindness, he is encouraged to be good always. “. . . I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say, do your best, wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”As Black Beauty grows up and changes hands, will he be able to endure the cruel masters, keeping in mind his mother’s lessons of goodness?Bringing to light the mistreatment of horses in England in the nineteenth-century, Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty was a galloping success. One of the bestselling books of all time, it has been adapted for films and theatre and has been an inspiration for several other works of literature.
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Fiction, Novel
Little Women : Original Un-Abridged Classic Collector’s Edition by Louisa May Alcott (Hardback)
Fiction, NovelLittle Women : Original Un-Abridged Classic Collector’s Edition by Louisa May Alcott (Hardback)
- Page : 467
- ISBN : 9789394885431
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.2 cm
Discover this beautiful and charming classic book behind the new major film. ‘Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another’Christmas won’t be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But although they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, as they play games, put on wild theatricals, make new friends, argue, grapple with their vices, learn from their mistakes, nurse each other through sickness and disappointments, and get into all sorts of trouble.BACKSTORY: Learn all about the author’s life and how it inspired her famous story, and find out which of the March sisters you most resemble!
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