{"product_id":"mistress-mashams-repose-isbn-9781681370064","title":"Mistress Masham's Repose","description":"\u003ci\u003e“She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest step…finally, she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door…. She went to look at the shell—but looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So ten-year-old Maria, the orphaned mistress of Malplaquet, discovers the secret of her deteriorating estate: On a deserted island at its far corner, in the temple long ago nicknamed Mistress Masham’s Repose, lives an entire community of people—“the People,” as they call themselves—all only inches tall. With the help of her only friend—the absurdly erudite Professor—Maria soon learns that this settlement is no less than the kingdom of Lilliput (first seen in \u003ci\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/i\u003e) in exile. Safely hidden for centuries, the Lilliputians are at first endangered by Maria’s well-meaning but clumsy attempts to make their lives easier, but their situation grows truly ominous when they are discovered by Maria’s greedy guardians, who look at the People and see only a bundle of money.\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A masterpiece of narration, literary ingenuity, humor and satire.” —\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I can think of few greater pleasures in reading aloud to a bookish child than to read that child first \u003ci\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/i\u003e and then \u003ci\u003eMistress Masham\u003c\/i\u003e right after.... It is a stunning book for a child to know.” —Noel Perrin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is literate, graceful and malicious…altogether a really charming contrivance.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Diana Trilling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers of earlier books by T.H. White (\u003ci\u003eThe Sword in the Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWitch in the Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, T\u003ci\u003ehe Ill-made Knight\u003c\/i\u003e) can expect the able recreation of period decor, the faculty of transmuting accepted literature into new life, elements of very human humor.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The action is shot through with humor, and the Lilliputians, with their eighteenth-century manner of speech and dress, are characters not soon forgotten.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the finest, most magical and extraordinary children’s books ever written.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Anne Fine, Children’s Laureate of Britain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMistress Masham's Repose\u003c\/i\u003e is a new-to-me book, and I read it as I have always enjoyed White's sense of humor and his profound philosophical and political insights. He doesn't drift from his usual form in this children's book. It is wryly funny but with serious undertones and certainly should give youngsters food for thought. The illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg are marvelous.” —Suanne Schafer, \u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “There is, in fact, nothing which can be said about the book except to praise it without limit.” —Thomas Sugrue\u003cb\u003eT(erence) H(anbury) White\u003c\/b\u003e (1906-1964) was born in Bombay, India, and educated at Cambridge University. His childhood was unhappy--”my parents loathed each other,” he later wrote--and he became a solitary person with a deep fund of strange lore and unusual enthusiasms. Fascinated by medieval life and legend, White taught himself Latin shorthand and translated a Latin bestiary. He taught himself the ancient art of falconry, which he wrote about in his book \u003ci\u003eThe Goshawk.\u003c\/i\u003e Indeed, it was as a writer that he became famous, most of all for \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King\u003c\/i\u003e, his wonderful retelling of the stories of King Arthur. An exceptional fisherman, an airplane pilot, and a deep-sea diver, T. H. White seemed to follow the same advice he has Merlin give in \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King\u003c\/i\u003e: “The best thing for being sad is to learn something.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFritz Eichenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (1901-1990) was born and raised in Germany, where he became a successful political cartoonist. The rise of Hitler made him worry about his family’s safety, and in 1933 he left Germany for the United States, where he illustrated classics such as \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, along with the pages of Dorothy Day’s radical news-sheet \u003ci\u003eThe Catholic Worker. \u003c\/i\u003eEichenberg also founded the Pratt Graphic Arts Center in Manhattan. He considered his teaching work “ a debt I have paid off to this country. . . . I’m very fond of America as a country that has welcomed so many people from different parts of the world without asking questions.”","brand":"NYRB Kids","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304983449829,"sku":"NP9781681370064","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681370064.jpg?v=1767732827","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mistress-mashams-repose-isbn-9781681370064","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}