In ihrem Londoner Internat wird die in Indien aufgewachsene Sara Crewe wegen ihres Reichtums wie eine Prinzessin behandelt. Doch dann stirbt ihr Vater hoch verschuldet und als nunmehr verarmtes Waisenkind ist Sara schutzlos den Demütigungen durch die Internatsvorsteherin Miss Minchin ausgeliefert. (Verlagstext).
In The Children of the New Forest, Marryat describes the trials and triumphs of the four Beverley children, orphaned during the English Civil War and forced to take refuge with a poor woodsman in the New Forest. This is the first annotated edition of a great children's classic, which has retained its popularity since 1847.
The White Birds; The Fisherman and the Giant; The Glass Box; The Prince and his Servants; The Table, the Donkey and the Stick.
A collection of short stories using the imagination to portray different feelings. Includes The Birthday of the Infanta; The Happy Prince; The Fisherman and his Soul; The Nightingale and the Rose; The Star Child; The Selfish Giant.
The adventures of an orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.