ISBN: 9781417928224

For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."-Rebecca West"It may be read with a great deal of simple enj… More...

For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."-Rebecca West"It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."-Angela Carter"It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it…The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."-Rebecca West"It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."-Angela Carter"It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it…The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with."-Harry MathewsMiss M, the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (though just how diminutive, the author never says) with a "passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals." Miss M. tells of her early life as a dreamy orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth year-in 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."One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."-Alison Lurie, from her foreword"De la Mare's masterpiece…It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory."-Washington Post"Here is a great book."-New York Times Book Review"Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath."-Atlantic Monthly"After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is."-John Bayley, New York Review of BooksWalter de la Mare (1873-1956) 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 children's novel, The Three Royal Books, Fiction~~General, Memoirs-of-a-Midget~~Walter-de-La-Mare, 999999999, Memoirs of a Midget, Walter de La Mare, 1417928220, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 1417928220

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe… More...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. classics,contemporary,fiction,genre fiction,historical,literary,literature and fiction Literature & Fiction, Kessinger Publishing, LLC<