Memoirs of a Midget

One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written.'-Alison Lurie Miss M., a pretty young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals, remains isolated from the rest of society due to her diminutive size. Forced to make her own way in the world after the death of her father, she finds herself treated as little more than an entertaining curiosity. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the leading poets and novelists of the twentieth century. First published in 1921, Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

Softcover. English. Telegram Books. 2009. ISBN: 9781846590665. 528 pp. Good. Book No: 63221