Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories

Elizabeth, raised in a remote French château by her austere Aunt Clotilde, grows up striving for purity and devotion but after her aunt’s death she is thrust into the dazzling world of New York where she struggles between worldly pleasures and her spiritual ideals living under the care of her indulgent Uncle Bertrand she longs instead to help the poor and live a life of compassion torn between loneliness and luxury she continues her quiet search to understand the world and her place within it and the story gently portrays how her innocence meets the complexities of city life with grace and inner strength.