Gwen Tourret Bücher

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).

Orphaned when their Royalist father is killed during the Civil War, the four Beverley children are taken into hiding in a cottage in the New Forest and disguised as the grandchildren of a poor forester.

Classic / British English Strange and wonderful things happen in t seven short stories. Oscar Wilde takes us into a world of kings and queens, mermaids and witches, giants and dwarfs, and talking animals. Exciting and amusing, happy and sad, these stories are for all ages.

The White Birds; The Fisherman and the Giant; The Glass Box; The Prince and his Servants; The Table, the Donkey and the Stick.

The adventures of an orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.