MISTRESS MASHAM'S REPOSE

by T.H. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Readers of earlier books by T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone, Witch in the Wood. The Ill-made Knight) can expect the able recreation of period decor, the faculty of transmuting accepted literature into new life, elements of very human humor. This, the story of 10-year old Maria, who, isolated at fabulous Malplaquet by villainous guardians, finds the descendants of Gulliver's Lilliputians, revivifies the stories of his travels, again contrasts the Little People's civilization with the normal world. Maria, in her efforts to be helpful, brings disaster to them, and climaxes her unhelpfulness by bringing them to the attention of her grasping guardians. With the help of the old professor, who, despite his tangential mentality effects her escape from the guardians, the Lilliputians are at last safe when Maria is able to establish sanctuary for them....A perfection of detail, whimsy rather than hard hitting satire, this has more than an affinity for Alies than for its origins in the Travels (or even the current Animal Farm). Discount the reviews for a special hand-picked market..it is not at all as ""impossible"" as some reviewers would have you think. We liked it.

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ISBN: 1590171039

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1946

Categories: FICTION