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    The Little Hunchback Zia
    The Little Hunchback Zia
    The Little Hunchback Zia
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    The Little Hunchback Zia

    By Frances Hodgson Burnett

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester and spent her early years there with her family. Her father died in 1852, and eventually, in 1865, Frances emigrated to the United States with her mother and siblings, settling with family in Knoxville, Tennessee. Frances began to be published at the age of nineteen, submitting short stories to magazines and using the proceeds to help support the family. In 1872, she married Swan Burnett, a doctor, with whom she had two sons while living in Paris. Her first novel, That Lass o'Lowrie's, was published in 1877, while the Burnetts were living in Washington D. C. Following a separation from her husband, Burnett lived on both sides of the Atlantic, eventually marrying for a second time, however she never truly recovered from the death of her first son, Lionel. Best known during her lifetime for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), her books for children, including The Secret Garden and The Little Princess, have endured as classics, but Burnett also wrote many other novels for adults, which were hugely popular and favourably compared to authors such as George Eliot.

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      The Little Hunchback Zia - Frances Hodgson Burnett

      Project Gutenberg's The Little Hunchback Zia, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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      Title: The Little Hunchback Zia

      Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

      Illustrator: Spencer Baird Nichols

                   W. T. Benda

      Posting Date: September 1, 2012 [EBook #5303] Release Date: March, 2004 First Posted: June 25, 2002 Last Updated: August 13, 2005

      Language: English

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      THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK ZIA

      BY

      FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY SPENCER BAIRD NICHOLS AND W. T. BENDA

      And it came to pass nigh upon nineteen hundred and sixteen years ago

      THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK ZIA

      The little hunchback Zia toiled slowly up the steep road, keeping in the deepest shadows, even though the night had long fallen. Sometimes he staggered with weariness or struck his foot against a stone and smothered his involuntary cry of pain. He was so full of terror that he was afraid to utter a sound which might cause any traveler to glance toward him. This he feared more than any other thing—that some man or woman might look at him too closely. If such a one knew much and had keen eyes, he or she might in some way guess even at what they might not yet see.

      Since he had fled from the village in which his wretched short life had been spent he had hidden himself in thickets and behind walls or rocks or bushes during the day, and had only come forth at night to stagger along his way in the darkness. If he had not managed to steal some food before he began his journey and if he had not found in one place some beans dropped from a camel's feeding-bag, he would have starved. For five nights he had been wandering on, but in his desperate fear he had lost count of time. When he had left the place he had called his home he had not known where he was going or where he might hide himself in the end. The old woman with whom he had lived and for whom he had begged and labored had driven him out with a terror as great as his own.

      Begone! she had cried in a smothered shriek. "Get thee gone, accursed! Even now thou mayest have brought the curse upon me also. A creature born a hunchback comes on earth with the blight of Jehovah's wrath upon him. Go far! Go as far as thy limbs will carry thee! Let no man come near enough to thee to see it! If thou go far away before

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