"Pikku lordi" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a children's novel published in 1886. When young Cedric Errol learns he is heir to a British earldom, he must leave his mother and humble New York life to live with his embittered grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt. The innocent boy believes his grandfather to be honorable and kind, inspiring the old man to live up to that image. But when a pretender challenges Cedric's inheritance, the boy's true place must be proven. A tale of transformation, the story became a cultural phenomenon. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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