Memoirs of a Midget
of Walter de la Mare, Alison Lurie (Foreword)
Description
Miss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (though just how diminutive, the author never says) with a âpassion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals.â Miss M. tells of her early life as a dreamy orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth yearâin which she falls in love with a beautiful and ambitious full-sized woman and is courted by a male dwarf. Concluding that she must choose either to simply tolerate her difference or grow callous to it, Miss M. resolves to become independent by offering herself up as a spectacle in a circus.[Walter de la Mare (1873â1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of a Midget. Other major works include the childrenâs novel, The Three Royal Monkeys, Henry Brocken, The Return, and Desert Islands.][Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections of essays on childrenâs literature, Donât Tell the Grown-Ups and Boys and Girls Forever. She has taught childrenâs literature and folklore at Cornell University.]
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 379 pages
- Publisher Paul Dry Books
- Publication Date January 1st 2004
- First Publication 10/29/21
- Language English
- ISBN 9781589880122
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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