"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...
"One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."--Alison Lurie
Miss M., a pretty young woman with a passion for shel...
The Small Years was first published in June 1930 and printed three times in its first six months. In 1937 it was re-issued in a smaller pocket edition, and this went out of print during the war. This second edition, which was originally published in 1950, returned the text to its larger form. This is simply one man's account of what it meant to him to be a child - to be born and brought up at an unusual school in a remote and beautiful rurality; an account which, by all the evidence, clearly has power over its readers of inciting them to recover and live over again their own private memories...
The Small Years was first published in June 1930 and printed three times in its first six months. In 1937 it was re-issued in a smaller pocket edition...
