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Memoirs of a Midget - Miss 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 yearin 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. [Walter de la Mare(18731956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of aMidget. Other major works include the childrens novel, The Three Royal Monkeys,Henry Brocken, The Return, and Desert Islands.] [Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections ofessays on childrens literature, Dont Tell the Grown-Ups and Boys and Girls Forever.She has taught childrens literature and folklore at Cornell University.]


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⚡️Book Title : Memoirs of a Midget
⚡Book Author : Walter de la Mare
⚡Page : 379 pages
⚡Published January 1st 2004 by Paul Dry Books (first published 1921)

Memoirs of a Midget

Miss 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 yearin 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. [Walter de la Mare(18731956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of aMidget. Other major works include the childrens novel, The Three Royal Monkeys,Henry Brocken, The Return, and Desert Islands.] [Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections ofessays on childrens literature, Dont Tell the Grown-Ups and Boys and Girls Forever.She has taught childrens literature and folklore at Cornell University.]