Memoirs of a Midget
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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 year -- in 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.
"After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is." --John Bayley, The New York Review of Books
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Praise for Walter de la Mare and Memoirs of a Midget
"For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."--Rebecca West
"It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."--Angela Carter
"It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it...The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with."--Harry Mathews
"One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."--Alison Lurie
"De la Mare's masterpiece...It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory."--Washington Post
"Here is a great book."--New York Times Book Review
"Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath."--Atlantic Monthly
"After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is."--John Bayley, New York Review of Books
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