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Mistress Masham's Repose
Mistress Masham's Repose | T.H. White
6 posts | 11 read | 4 to read
She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest stepfinally she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest doorshe went to look at the shellbut looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it. So ten-year-old Maria, 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 Mashams Repose, live an entire community of peopleThe People, as they call themselvesall only inches tall. With the help of her only friendthe absurdly erudite ProfessorMaria soon learns that this settlement is no less than the kingdom of Lilliput (first seen in Gullivers Travels) in exile. Safely hidden for centuries, the Lilliputians are at first endangered by Marias well-meaning but clumsy attempts to make their lives easier, but their situation grows truly ominous when they are discovered by Marias greedy guardians, who look at The People and see only a bundle of money.
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I dunno about #newlyobsessed as my obsessions are all of long-standing. I will say Folio editions. #foliofreaks #splashintosummerreads @Tiffy_Reads

elkeOriginal Oo - you have that Frankenstein edition 😻 7y
LeahBergen Such a good obsession 😄 7y
BibliophileMomma 😍😍 7y
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This Folio edition of "Mistress Masham" is just stunning. I have read the story since I was a child but I feel like holding a lovely physical book and reading a comfortingly British story.

LeahBergen Beautiful! 7y
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A #shelfie of my main shelves. I no longer have books piled on top of books on it, now I have the new shelf.

PurpleyPumpkin 😍😍😍 8y
TrishB Ohhh lovely 💝 8y
tpixie So great to have enough shelves!! 8y
Hobbinol 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
LeahBergen Lovely! 8y
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That cover, though. #bookmail

LeahBergen Lovely!! 8y
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I got quite a gorgeous edition of Mistress Masham's Repose. It is a Folio Society edition but I got a used copy from Abebooks. #bookmail