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Memoirs of a Midget

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First published: 1921
Pages: 382

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Miss M. is a grown woman of extraordinarily small stature, and Walter de la Mare tells her whole life in her own precise, watchful voice. Orphaned at twenty and left to fend for herself, she moves through an ordinary English world scaled all wrong for her body, treated by turns as a curiosity, a pet, and a confidante. She falls hard for the beautiful, careless Fanny Bowater, whose schemes pull the story toward heartbreak. De la Mare, better known as a poet, renders her inner life with such tenderness that her smallness stops being a device and becomes a way of seeing loneliness plainly. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1921. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mare (1873 to 1956) was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer, celebrated for his verse for children and for eerie, delicate tales of the supernatural. He worked as a clerk before writing full time, winning wide acclaim for his imaginative range.