Memoirs of a Midget (En)

English
By: Walter John de la Mare
Softcover
528 pp
Telegram, London
14 x 21 cm
978-1-84659-066-5 / 9781846590665
Novel

By Walter John de la Mare ( 1873 - 1956), the English poet, short story writer and novelist. This classic 1921 novel, Memoirs of a Midget, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

"One of the strongest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written." - Alison Lurie

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 size. She tells of her early life and her tempestuous twentieth year in which she witnesses death, infatuation, suicide and madness.

An elegiac, misanthropic, sometimes perverse study of isolation, de la Mare's prize-winning classic is a dark and teasing riddle that seduces by its gentle charm and elegant prose.