New York Review Children's Collection: Mistress Masham's Repose (Hardcover)

from melydia

This book has been on my shelf for at least the last fifteen years, but I never got around to reading it until now. It's a clever story of a girl named Maria who discovers Lilliputians on her property. Having never read Gulliver's Travels, I can't say how necessary that might be, but I'm familiar...

from melydia

This book has been on my shelf for at least the last fifteen years, but I never got around to reading it until now. It's a clever story of a girl named Maria who discovers Lilliputians on her property. Having never read Gulliver's Travels, I can't say how necessary that might be, but I'm familiar...

from kslade

Good fantasy of a girl meeting up with Lilliputians left over from Gulliver's Travels.

from sdunford

How this delightful children's story escaped me for so long, I just don't know. This is White at his best, spinning a tale of good and evil, where innocence defeats cynicism. And he does this using Jonathan Swift's Lilliputians, from Gulliver's Travels as main characters. Is this a parable of rea...

from helenjoan

Mum gave me a copy she read to me as a child which she had illustrated copying the original illustrations by Fritz Eichenburg in the 1946 edition. The year I was born done in pen and ink, line drawings and this edition has the original illustrations. The stately home where an orphan is sent is mo...