| Description |
xvi, 379 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
Miss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (though just how diminutive, the author never says) with a "passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals." Miss M. tells of her early life as a day-dreaming orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth year -- in which she falls in love with a beautiful and ambitious full-sized woman and is courted by a male dwarf. Concluding that she must choose either to simply tolerate her difference or grow callous to it, Miss M. resolves to become independent by offering herself up as a spectacle in a circus. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1924. |
| Subject |
Young women -- Fiction.
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Difference (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Circus performers -- Fiction.
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Short people -- Fiction.
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Dwarfs -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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| ISBN |
1589880129 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781589880122 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 1991020 |
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AU@ 000025055338 |
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