导语

  

     伯内特（Burnett，F.H.）所著的《小公主（英文版）》是20世纪最伟大的童话著作之一，是一部关于“伴随着内心秘密成长”的童话。主人公萨拉是一位英国绅士的女儿，在贵族学校里过着公主般的生活。由于父亲突然离世，她的生活受到了毁灭性的打击。萨拉是一个坚强、聪慧、善良的女孩，在遭遇困厄时，却坚守着对生活的幻想，最终使梦幻成为现实。萨拉在各种荣辱面前表现出来的从容与优雅，宽容与爱心感染了她周围的人，也感染了一代又一代的读者。

内容提要

  

    ONCE ON a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heaW 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 thoroughfares.
    She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.

1 Sara
2 A French Lesson
3 Ermengarde
4 Lottie
5 Becky
6 The Diamond Mines
7 The Diamond Mines Again
8 In the Attic
9 Melchisedec
10 The Indian Gentleman
11 Ram Dass
12 The Other Side of the Wall
13 One of the Populace
14 What Melchisedec Heard and Saw
15 The Magic
16 The Visitor
17 "It Is the Child!"
18 "I Tried Not to Be"
19 Anne