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I think I should have read this as a child, when I would have enjoyed it more like Secret Garden, A Little Princess or Little Lord Faultenroy. These were fun and less egregiously on the side of 'noble Prince is noble because he's a Prince all others are lesser and should bow their romantically inspired towards monarchy heads to him'. I mean similar elements were there, but there was still more heart.Here we have a spirit of revolution instead, which works on giving a reader the Cause (TM) cloude...
I've been dragging through the last 50 pages of this book over the past 3 days, but that's mainly due to outside distractions. I have to give it 5 stars for the feelings it gave me last week.I have not read Frances Hodgson Burnett since the last time I reread either The Secret Garden or A Little Princess, both of which must be at least 10 years ago. But her writing style and the way her stories make me feel must be ingrained in my subconscious from the number of times I read and reread those boo...
Well I didn't love it.I have all kinds of respect for Frances Hodgson Burnett, but this is miles behind Secret Garden and Little Princess. If you love this book I have no wish to take that away from you, but I'm going to indulge in some ranting that you're not obligated to read.There's a reason kid protagonists are frequently orphans. It allows them to go on dangerous adventures without the parents being neglectful. In this story, the dad literally sends two thirteen year-old kids (who worship h...
Marco Lorestan, the hero of this story, is the lesser-known brother to Mary Lennox and Sara Crewe (and I guess Little Lord Fauntleroy, which, unbelievably, I have never read). I've always wondered why so few people have heard of this book, because Burnett's other stories are so famous, and the theme, about a clever, odd, out-of-place child coming of age in trying circumstances is very similar. It might be because all the characters are male and Burnett is not an especially convincing masculine w...
I had a feeling it would be great and I wasn't wrong. It was a very pleasant novel. I like almost everything about it: characters, places, adventures - all are very interesing.I admit that the plot is very predictable but it didn't bother me. I could easly connected with the story and characters. Young Marco is lovely. He has also this beautiful kindness, gentleness and wisdom which make him even more interesting as a child character. Also his father is a very strong character. And I felt sympat...
I should stop reading reviews for beautiful old children's classics like this one, because I enjoy them so much, but it seems the rest of the world is cynical. So is it predictable? Is the main character Too Good To Be Believed? Of course. But sometimes that's part of the charm. I love old books, and I wish there was more quality literature like it today.
Too tidy, even for a fantasy/fairy tale. The hero lacks an Achilles heel, or even much of a villain. Eastern mysticism lessons slowed the pace and felt preachy, not to mention out of place.
Yes, I have been trying to figure out exactly what has been textually bothering me so very much and so intensely with regard to Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1915 Ruritanian middle grade novel The Lost Prince that I ended up so massively bored and so hugely frustrated with a sizeable majority of Hodgson Burnett's featured story I was mostly just skimming and not really finding The Lost Prince all that engaging and enjoyable a personal reading experience (because from the synopsis of The Lost Prince,...
Perhaps my estimate of the this book is influenced by how emotionally connected I am to the characters so settle in for a bit of a story. When I first read this book it was simply because I knew to increase my vocabulary I needed to read classics as they tended to have more stimulating vocabulary that the other books in the sections of the library for my fellow 8th graders. I, being tired of finding books that bored me senseless, was rather wary of starting The Lost Prince. As I began the book I...
An excellent read, though maybe a little clean and tidy by modern standards. For once Burnett has given her protagonist a loving parent, if perhaps a little too good to be true. The elements of Eastern religion are woven into the story in an interesting way, and it's nice to see a story focused on non-white non-Western characters (Marco and his father Stefan are from the fictional East European country of Samavia, which was small but happy and prosperous until it fell into civil war). I suspect
