A Little Princess
Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin’s London boarding school as a pampered, imaginative girl whose wealthy father can deny her nothing. When he dies and his fortune vanishes, the headmistress strips away every kindness and sends Sara to labor as a servant, cold and half starved in a bare attic. What sustains her is the private conviction that a real princess stays generous and brave no matter how she is treated. Frances Hodgson Burnett turns a simple reversal of fortune into a warm, enduring story about dignity, imagination, and quiet resilience. Expanded from an earlier tale and published in full in 1905, it remains a beloved children’s classic. Read it free as a PDF and EPUB edition.
About the Author
Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849, taken to Tennessee at sixteen after her father died and the cotton trade collapsed, and started selling stories to magazines to feed the family. Little Lord Fauntleroy made her rich in 1886 and inflicted velvet suits and long…
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Listen to A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett free online. The full audiobook (7 hr 45 min, 19 chapters, read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)) streams free on this page.
A Little Princess (1905) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sara | 22:47 | |
| 2 | A French Lesson | 13:31 | |
| 3 | Ermengarde | 16:50 | |
| 4 | Lottie | 19:44 | |
| 5 | Becky | 32:17 | |
| 6 | The Diamond Mines | 23:11 | |
| 7 | The Diamond Mines Again | 46:50 | |
| 8 | In The Attic | 22:51 | |
| 9 | Melchisedec | 24:37 | |
| 10 | The Indian Gentleman | 26:11 | |
| 11 | Ram Dass | 20:21 | |
| 12 | The Other Side of the Wall | 17:53 | |
| 13 | One of the Populace | 23:00 | |
| 14 | What Melchisedec Heard and Saw | 11:16 | |
| 15 | The Magic | 53:16 | |
| 16 | The Visitor | 33:32 | |
| 17 | “It is the Child” | 16:21 | |
| 18 | “I Tried Not To Be” | 25:11 | |
| 19 | Anne | 15:17 |
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