The Earl wants to give his grandson an education in power and privilege, but he does not suspect that the innocent little American may have more to teach. In Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), seven-year-old Cedric Errol is growing up in New York City with his young widowed mother when he unexpectedly learns that the grandfather he has never met is an English earl. Restoring the novels to their original, unabridged American texts, this authoritative edition features over forty illustrations carefully reproduced from the first editions, twenty of them printed in full color. You are a story-I am a story.” From the people and places around her, Frances Hodgson Burnett, who moved to America from England at age fifteen, found stories enough for over forty novels and plays-including the three still-beloved classics of children’s literature presented in this Library of America volume.
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