About this title: Open this book and you step onto a magic place...Maria is an orphan living in a vast, dilapidated mansion with no one but a kindly cook, a distracted professor and a spiteful governess for company. That is, until she discovers the Lilliputians - each no more than 6 inches high - who are descendants of those described in Gulliver's Travels. Determined to keep their whereabouts hidden from the human world, the tiny people are at first reluctant to accept Maria as their friend. But when they are accidentally discovered by her interfering governess and the scheming vicar, they must join forces to ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Capricorn Books
Date Published: 1960
Description: Fritz Eichenberg. Good. Prior owner's name and address inside. Cover is shelf worn, creased, soiled. 255 pp. Prior owner's initials on page edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1946
Description: Acceptable in Fair jacket. ---Fair jacket. Fair 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall 255 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The boards have normal signs of aging w/ mildewing. The DJ has only light signs of use. -Publish Place: New York-Size: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1946
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Missing Dust Jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1946
Description: A good reading copy only. inscription to inside front cover. first small print title page is beginniing to tear to top of page. -, Hard Cover, Good / Missing Dust Jacket. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Date Published: 1946
Description: Good. Ex-library book, may contain library markings. Overall Good condition. May contain readers' names. Average shelf wear. Fast Shipping! ! ! Rely on our promptness and our ratings! ! ! read more
"I purchased this book, along with Gulliver's Travels, as part of a literature unit for my 9 year old. T.H. White's children's novel imagines the delightful possibility that Gulliver's rescuer returned to Lilliput and captured the people with the intent to show them and thereby make his fame and fortune. The book picks up years later, when 10 year old Maria, an orphan being brought up in dire and dreary conditions, discovers the escaped little people. My son and I both enjoyed the book (though he found it dull at first, by the closing chapters he was reading eagerly). Not only is the world of the Lilliputians fully imagined in every possible detail (from how they might catch fish and defend themselves against magpies to the way in which they hollowed out a home for themselves in a column), but White manages to intersperse a valuable lesson: no matter how small, people are people, an they deserve respect and care."
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