Kleine Lord

Cedric Errol is a seven-year-old American boy living in genteel poverty in New York when word arrives from England: his father is dead, and his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, demands he come home. The Earl is a bitter, proud man who disowned his son for marrying a common seamstress, and he wants nothing to do with the boy's mother. Cedric arrives at the crumbling manor in velvet suits and with an innocence that the household mistakes for weakness. But his stubborn, luminous kindness, his refusal to hate anyone, his insistence on seeing the good in a man who deserves none of it, gradually cracks the old man's armor. This is a story about the radical proposition that goodness can be a form of courage, and that a child can inherit far more than a title. It endures because it asks whether love is stronger than pride, and answers with a quiet, devastating certainty that it is.