{"product_id":"little-kingdoms-isbn-9780375701436","title":"Little Kingdoms","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMartin Dressler\u003c\/i\u003e delivers an inventive collection of three novellas that are a magical companion to his acclaimed longer fictions. • \"Millhauser makes our world turn amazing!\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to such marvelous—and often disquieting—effect in \u003ci\u003eLittle Kingdoms. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne,\" a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal. \"The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon\" is at once a gothic tale of nightmarish jealousy and a meditation on the human need for exaltation and horror. And \"Catalogue of the Exhibition\" introduces us to the oeuvre of Edmund Moorash, a Romantic painter who might have been imagined by Nabokov or Poe. Exuberantly inventive, as mysterious as dreams, these novellas will delight, mesmerize, and transport anyone who reads them.\"Millhauser's writing is dazzling.\" —\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Millhauser makes our world turn amazing!\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An American writer of surpassing skill.... He renders the impossible itself with precision.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003eSTEVEN MILLHAUSER received the Pulitzer Prize for \u003cb\u003eMartin Dressler\u003c\/b\u003e. He is a recipient of the Lannan Award and has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of \u003cb\u003eEdwin Mullhouse\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Barnum Museum\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Penny Arcade\u003c\/b\u003e, among other books, he teaches at Skidmore College and lives with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300678553829,"sku":"NP9780375701436","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375701436.jpg?v=1767731539","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/little-kingdoms-isbn-9780375701436","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}