Frances Hodgson Burnett 
Little Lord Fauntleroy 

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a beloved children's novel. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly found to be the heir of the Earl of Dorincourt. Saying loving goodbyes to his working-class friends, Cedric goes to England together with his mother to embrace his new fortune. His grandfather, the old earl, is a bitter old man ridden with gout and a foul temper, trusting no one. However, the angelic boy elicits a profound transformation in the grandfather, which not only benefits the castle household but the whole populace of the earldom.