Mistress Masham's Repose (Children's Literature)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780839826156 (083982615X)
Publish date: April 1st 1980
Publisher: Gregg Press
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
This is, basically, Gulliver's Travels for the better sex. Or the sequel to Gulliver, depending on how you want too word it. Maria is a young orphan in somewhat similar instances to Sara Crewe, and she discovers that inhabitants of an island on her estate. These are the Lillputts who were kidnapped....
On a tiny, man-made island in the middle of a lake live the descendents of kidnapped Lilliputians. On the shore of the lake stands an ancient manor, now falling into ruin. In the manor live a lonely girl and her evil governess...Those are the fun parts. Since this is T.H. White there is also much im...