Little Lord Fauntleroy

The best version of the Cinderella story in modern idiom that exists is how Marghanita Laski describes Frances Hodgson Burnetts Little Lord Fauntleroy. It is the charming story of a sevenyearold American boy, Ceddie Errol, who lives on the edge of poverty in New York. One day he is visited by a gruff lawyer at the tiny house he shares with his widowed mother, and his life is never to be the same: for waiting in England is Dorincourt Castle, where Ceddie is to reside as the sole living heir to the irascible, proud, and selfish Earl of Dorincourt. It will be up to this virtuous boy to capture and warm the Earls heart and transform him into a doting grandfather and responsible landlord.