Memoirs of a Midget (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Walter de la Mare

Overview

The tiny Miss M. relates her orphan childhood, and the pain caused by her realization that she must either learn to tolerate her size or live with it in hatred. Hailed as “a poet’s book,” by critic J. C. Squire, the novel won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411444447
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/22/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	396
File size:	683 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) creates work which brims with romantic themes such as dreams, death, emotion, childhood fantasies, and the pursuit of the transcendent. His first major book, the poetry collection Songs of Childhood, was considered a significant example of children’s literature. De la Mare also wrote a number of short stories and novels.