- Fiction, Orphans, Characters in literature, England
Ten-year-old Maria, an orphaned heiress living with her unpleasant guardians on a crumbling English estate called Malplaquet, finds her life changing in unimagined ways when she explores an overgrown island on the estate's lake and discovers the descendants of Gulliver's Lilliputians.
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Classical in form, intimate, warm and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- T. H. White
- First published
- December 10, 1987
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Berkley, Red Fox, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- German, und, English
- ISBN
- 9780140305241
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