| Memoirs of a Midget Contributor(s): De La Mare, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1408633809 ISBN-13: 9781408633809 Publisher: Herzberg Press OUR PRICE: $30.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Walter de la Mare's Memoirs of a Midget is one of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written. It is a tour de force; a grown man's fully imagined and convincing impersonation of a young woman between two and four feet tall. Miss M, the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman 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 beautifal 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.13 lbs) 404 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |