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Memoirs of a Midget
Walter De La Mare
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Description for Memoirs of a Midget
Paperback. Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining curiosity. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 38. Weight in Grams: 502.
Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining curiosity, a momentary diversion from the game of making ones way up the social ladder. An elegiac, misanthropic, sometimes perverse study of isolation, de la Mare's prize-winning classic seduces by its gentle charm and elegant prose.
Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining curiosity, a momentary diversion from the game of making ones way up the social ladder. An elegiac, misanthropic, sometimes perverse study of isolation, de la Mare's prize-winning classic seduces by its gentle charm and elegant prose.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Telegram Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846590665
SKU
V9781846590665
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About Walter De La Mare
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born of a Scottish mother and a father descended from an old Huguenot family. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School, which he left at sixteen to work in the City Office of the Anglo-American Oil Company, writing in his spare time under the pseudonym Walter Ramal. He left after nine years ... Read more
Reviews for Memoirs of a Midget
'Here is a great book.' New York Times' It sticks like a splinter in the mind.' Angela Carter' For centuries to come this book will inspire imaginative people.' Rebecca West 'One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written.' Alison Lurie Small things do come in big packages. Originally published in 1922 and just released in this ... Read more