Fiction · 1915
The Lost Prince
The Lost Prince follows Marco Loristan and his crippled friend "The Rat," two boys in London who slowly discover that Marco's quiet, watchful father is caught up in a secret plan to restore an exiled king to the throne of a small European country — and that Marco himself, trained since childhood in absolute discretion and told nothing more than he needs to know, may be about to become part of that plan in a way he never expected.
Frances Hodgson Burnett published the novel in 1915, drawing loosely on the political turmoil then unsettling the Balkans; better known for The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy, she wrote this one as a boys' adventure story built around loyalty and secrecy rather than the domestic transformations of her more famous books.
Bibliomancer publishes the 1915 text exactly as Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote it.
Contents
- I — The New Lodgers at No. 7 Philibert Place
- II — A Young Citizen of the World
- III — The Legend of the Lost Prince
- IV — The Rat
- V — “Silence Is Still the Order”
- VI — The Drill and the Secret Party
- VII — “The Lamp Is Lighted!”
- VIII — An Exciting Game
- IX — “It Is Not a Game”
- X — The Rat—And Samavia
- XI — “Come with Me”
- XII — “Only Two Boys”
- XIII — Loristan Attends a Drill of the Squad, and Marco Meets a Samavian
- XIV — Marco Does Not Answer
- XV — A Sound in a Dream
- XVI — The Rat to the Rescue
- XVII — “It Is a Very Bad Sign”
- XVIII — “Cities and Faces”
- XIX — “That Is One!”
- XX — Marco Goes to the Opera
- XXI — “Help!”
- XXII — The Night Vigil
- XXIII — The Silver Horn
- XXIV — “How Shall We Find Him?”
- XXV — A Voice in the Night
- XXVI — Across the Frontier
- XXVII — “It Is the Lost Prince! It Is Ivor!”
- XXVIII — “Extra! Extra! Extra!”
- XXIX — ‘Twixt Night and Morning
- XXX — The Game Is at an End
- XXXI — “The Son of Stefan Loristan”
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About the author
1849–1924 · Victorian
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was born in Manchester and emigrated with her widowed mother to Tennessee in 1865. She supported the family by writing magazine stories and became a successful novelist and playwright on both sides of the Atlantic. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911) are the books for which she is remembered.
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