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Mistress Masham's Repose
by T. H. White (Illustrator: Fritz Eichenberg)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1946-01-01)
ISBN: B00005WGSX
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 255 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: SMx01387
Condition: Good
Comments: ** GOOD CONDITION **, 1946 G.P Putnams Sons hardcover edition. No jacket. Cover gently worn w/scuffs, edge wear, small spots on front. Pages clean, binding tight! Nice reading copy! Fast Shipping. SM
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Product Description
Ten-year-old Maria, an orphaned heiress mistreated by evil guardians, discovers the descendants of the Lilliputians living on an island on a lake in the grounds of her English mansion.
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Customer Reviews
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find the original
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-07-24
I have the original in my father in law's vast book library. It is a hard copy with the pen drawings by Fritz Eichenberg. The end paper design is a layout of the palace grounds and surrounding countryside. I read and loved The Borrower's when young, and I just found this one and it is delightful. A great one to pass down through the family.
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Return to Childhood
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-07-01
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
What a wonderful trek down memory lane! I owned a copy of this book when I was 10 and remember being so riveted by it that when it was time to go to bed I took the book under the covers with me and finished reading it by the light of my Girl Scout flashlight. (Which no doubt accounts for why I have such bad eyesight as an adult!) Since my own copy had been long gone, I was delighted to discover I could buy a replacement on Amazon. Instead of preceding this one with a cup of hot chocolate and finishing the last chapters by flashlight, however, I had a martini and happily stayed up until midnight. Time has not diminished in any way the satisfaction of a tale well told.
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The Children's Masterpiece that Never Was
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-25
I first learned of Mistress Masham's Repose during a game of charades. (Can you imagine trying to act out this title, especially since it's a book so few people have heard of?) I had already read and loved The Once and Future King, and set out to find a copy. I have read this book three times over the past 20 years. Each time it strikes me anew as such a wonderfully funny, sweet and substantial novel. It could be that the title itself is what kept it from becoming a classic alongside Wind in the Willows and A Wrinkle in Time. Read this book! Buy this book for all the book-loving children in your life!
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Three cheers for Maria
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-03-31
I loved this book as a child and was thrilled to see it re-relased so that my grandchildren can enjoy it too .
It is set in the decaying splendour of Maplaquet ,[ based ,of course,on Stowe ,where the author,T.H.White worked as a schoolmaster,the professor's cottage in the the grounds being based on the author,s own
In this great house ,belonging to her family, lives the orphan,Maria,last of her line,under the guardianship of a ghastly governess and a villainous vicar,one day ,while the ghastly governess is prostrated by a migraine, Maria makes her way down to a lake in the grounds,she finds a leaky boat which carries her to the island in the middle and there, in the domed pavilion known as Mistress Masham's repose,she makes a DISCOVERY.......
How this discovery leads to Maria regaining her inheritance from the infamous pair who are determined to swindle her out of it is the subject of this great book,told in T.H.White's warm and witty style,well known from "The Sword In The Stone".
Recourceful Maria is an endearing heroine and this is one of those books that will stay with you for a long time.
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My favorite children's book
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-05-21
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
As an American child of about 10, I acquired a battered copy of this book along with a bunch of children's books from a family friend whose children had outgrown them. As other reviewers suggest, I was mystified by much of the book (the poet Pope?) but I still found it a great adventure story and loved the illustrations. It didn't hurt that I resembled Maria myself (a bookish tomboy with glasses--thank God for LASIK). I have re-read the book with pleasure on a number of occasions and now understand the references, but I wouldn't hesitate to give this book to an intelligent American child today. Perhaps it would prompt him or her to learn more about British history and literature. I'm glad to see it has been reprinted.
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