{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-midget-walter-de-la-mare-9781589880122","title":"Memoirs of a Midget","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry.\"--Rebecca West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind.\"--Angela Carter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 Mathews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written.\"--Alison Lurie, from her foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"De la Mare's masterpiece...It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here is a great book.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath.\"--\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is.\"--John Bayley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter de la Mare\u003c\/b\u003e (1873-1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Midget\u003c\/i\u003e. Other major works include the children's novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Three Royal Monkeys\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHenry Brocken\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eDesert Islands\u003c\/i\u003e is also available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Lurie \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections of essays on children's literature, \u003ci\u003eDon't Tell the Grown-Ups\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBoys and Girls Forever\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught children's literature and folklore at Cornell University for many years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter De La Mare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589880129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589880122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.42w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/18\/2004 pg. 32","brand":"Walter De La Mare","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076701679871,"sku":"9781589880122","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a9e4b2a-a835-4464-93a6-3c47833a1586.jpg?v=1685466359","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/memoirs-of-a-midget-walter-de-la-mare-9781589880122","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}