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A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905
83%of this book is inside a 1600-word core English vocabulary
67,077words in the book
4,953different words
2,973beyond the core

Ranked #7 of 32 — easiest first.

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How it starts

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.

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