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…The Little Lame Prince<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"L\"After racking my brain for like, a whole 22 minutes, which, believe me, was way too much considering how tired and out of it I am, I looked over at my freshly loaded bookshelf, and this book stuck out to me, because it has *two* ‘L’s in the title:\u00a0 The Little Lame Prince<\/em><\/a>. And the art is pretty.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how many of you have even *heard* of this book, but I grew up with it, as my mother had a copy she’d been given in by her parents when she was a child, and which she then gave to me at some point. (I love old books, and I cannot lie…)<\/p>\n

The Little Lame Prince <\/em>was first published in 1875, and was written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (and I thought I had a long name!), an English novelist and poet born in 1826. According to her bio on Amazon, “she was determined to obtain a livelihood by her pen, and, beginning with fiction for children, advanced steadily until placed in the front rank of the women novelists of her day.”<\/p>\n

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An 1887 portrait of Dinah Craik<\/strong> by Hubert von Herkomer; from http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinah_Craik<\/a>. Doesn’t she look like she’s contemplating more fun stories?<\/p><\/div>\n

Apparently, she was quite the writer: she wrote a number of poems, books, and various tales published in magazines until she died in 1887. In the website Making of America<\/a>, you can read one of her essays called “A Child’s Life”.<\/p>\n

What strikes me most about it (and no, I didn’t read the whole thing), is that she writes “…I came upon an ancient book-shop. Can any body resist the fascination of an old book-shop? I own I can not.” And I, too, own I cannot resist an old bookstore. Which is explains why my TBR (to be read) pile could kill me if it fell on top of me.<\/p>\n

And yet, The Little Lame Prince <\/em>is the only book I’ve read by this author (at least since I’ve been keeping track {3\/1994}).\u00a0 A quick perusal on Amazon reveals that a bunch of her books are available for free on Kindle, as well as a number of them in print versions. How’s that for longevity?<\/p>\n

Now, The Little Lame Prince<\/em>, which is supposedly the topic of this post: this is a fairy tale about a boy “banished by his wicked uncle to live in a solitary tower on a barren plain”. He is banished because he cannot walk. The little prince has only books and toys and his nurse to amuse him – until his godmother shows up and gives him a cloak by which he can go traveling around the land.<\/p>\n

And then of course, the adventures the boy has!<\/p>\n

And since it is a fairy tell, all ends well – tho he is lame for the rest of his life, he is happy. … something we should all aspire to be.<\/p>\n

\"My

My copy of the book. Isn’t it lovely?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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