Mistress Masham's Repose (A Puffin Book) - Softcover

White, T H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014136873X ISBN 13: 9780141368733

Publisher: Puffin, 2016

Synopsis

Ten-year-old orphan Maria lives in her ancestors' crumbling mansion. Exploring the grounds one day, Maria discovers a wild, half-forgotten island in the middle of a neglected lake - and an extraordinary secret. For the island is home to a community of tiny people - the Lilliputians that Gulliver first met on his famous travels.
But as Maria grows closer to her new friends, her own life is in grave danger. Her wicked governess and the cruel vicar are plotting to steal her rightful inheritance - and they will stop at nothing. How can Maria keep the Lilliputians safe, while protecting herself?
Cover illustration by Jill Murphy, creator of The Worst Witch series.

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Review

"It is literate, graceful and malicious altogether a really charming contrivance."
Diana Trilling
"A masterpiece of narration, literary ingenuity, humor and satire. Mr. White, on the basis of this book, deserves to be mentioned in the company of Evelyn Waugh, C. S. Lewis, and George Orwell as one of the few fortunate possessors of a splendid prose style."
"Commonweal"
"Readers of earlier books by T.H. White ("The Sword in the Stone," "Witch in the Wood," T"he 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."
"Kirkus Reviews"
"The action is shot through with humor, and the Lilliputians, with their eighteenth-century manner of speech and dress, are characters not soon forgotten."
"The Horn Book"
"One of the finest, most magical and extraordinary children s books ever written."
Anne Fine, Children s Laureate of Britain"

A masterpiece of narration, literary ingenuity, humor and satire. Commonweal
I can think of few greater pleasures in reading aloud to a bookish child than to read that child first Gulliver s Travels and then Mistress Masham right after.... It is a stunning book for a child to know. Noel Perrin
"It is literate, graceful and malicious altogether a really charming contrivance."
Diana Trilling
"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."
Kirkus Reviews
"The action is shot through with humor, and the Lilliputians, with their eighteenth-century manner of speech and dress, are characters not soon forgotten."
The Horn Book
"One of the finest, most magical and extraordinary children s books ever written."
Anne Fine, Children s Laureate of Britain
This is an exquisite filigree...As its Lilliputians would say, it is a Work to be held in high Esteam by all true Persons of Quality. Basil Davenport
There is, in fact, nothing which can be said about the book except to praise it without limit. Thomas Sugrue"

"Contemporary children...will find wit and enchantment in 'Mistress Masham's Repose, ' a paperback reprint of the 1946 novel by White...it's a charming excursion from the fellow who penned the Arthurian tale, 'The Once and Future King.'" --Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal

"A masterpiece of narration, literary ingenuity, humor and satire." --Commonweal

"I can think of few greater pleasures in reading aloud to a bookish child than to read that child first Gulliver's Travels and then Mistress Masham right after.... It is a stunning book for a child to know." --Noel Perrin

"It is literate, graceful and malicious...altogether a really charming contrivance."
-- Diana Trilling

"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."
-- Kirkus Reviews

"The action is shot through with humor, and the Lilliputians, with their eighteenth-century manner of speech and dress, are characters not soon forgotten."
-- The Horn Book

"One of the finest, most magical and extraordinary children's books ever written."
-- Anne Fine, Children's Laureate of Britain

"This is an exquisite filigree...As its Lilliputians would say, it is a Work to be held in high Esteam by all true Persons of Quality." --Basil Davenport

"There is, in fact, nothing which can be said about the book except to praise it without limit." --Thomas Sugrue

Book Description

A ten-year-old girl finds Lilliputians living in her garden in T. H. White's classic of children's literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 014136873X
• ISBN 13: 9780141368733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368