Ranked #7 of 32 — easiest first.
The most common words in this book that fall outside the core vocabulary. Names are left out; these are the ones that actually repay learning before you start.
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy 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.
Btelo English plays A Little Princess one sentence at a time, highlighting each word as it is spoken, with a tap on any word opening its dictionary card. The full text is also free at Project Gutenberg if you would rather read it straight through.