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LiddyGally: Both books share a good-hearted (and intelligent) female protaganist who is forced to attend a boarding school she does not like and face the loss of a father.
Not quite as good as The Secret Garden, but close! An excellent assortment of characters, a very brave and noble "princess" who is not always treated as such and an entertaining story. Much like Garden, this book also features "magic" which isn't really magic, but is the by-product of people caring for one another. Lovely story. ( )
I did a reread and it was as marvelous and wonderful as I remembered. When I read it as a child, I didn't see how very unlikely a Victorian era children's novel it is and perhaps I loved it even more for that.
I love Burnett's writing. Reading her is like riding a very slow roller coaster that goes deeper than you thought and then higher than you thought and while you're on it everything is beautiful. ( )
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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 thorough-fares.
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When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word - just look at them and think...when you will not fly into a passion, people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they say things they wish they hadn't said afterwards. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in - that's stronger.
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.
If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that -- warm things, kind things, sweet things -- help and comfort and laughter -- and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
"Perhaps," she said, "to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people. If Miss Minchin knew everything on earth and was like what she is now, she'd still be a detestable thing, and everybody would hate her. Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked. Look at Robespierre -- "
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And, somehow, Sara felt as if she understood her, though she said so little, and only stood still and looked and looked after her as she went out of the shop with the Indian gentleman, and they got into the carriage and drove away.
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Sara Crewe, or What Happened At Miss Minchin's, the work on which A Little Princess is based, was first written as a serialized novella. It was published in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1888.
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