Mistress Masham's Repose (Antique Collector's Club Children's Classics) - Hardcover

T. H. White

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851497005 ISBN 13: 9781851497003

Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Ten-year-old Maria, an orphan living on a crumbling English estate and mistreated by her guardians, meets the descendants of the Lilliputians on an overgrown island and they discover ways to help each other.

About this title

About the Author:

Terence Hanbury White (1906-1964) is best known for his famous retelling of the ARthurian legends in The Once and Future King. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Cambridge. He later became a teacher and was appointed Head of Stowe school. The school grounds were to inspire the setting for Mistress Masham's Repose which he wrote in 1947.

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, 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1851497005
• ISBN 13: 9781851497003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158
• Illustrator: Martin Hargreaves