Mistress Masham's Repose

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • characters and characteristics in literature
  • characters in literature
  • children's fiction
  • children's stories
  • dwarfs
  • england
  • england, fiction
  • fantasy
  • fantasy fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, science fiction, general
  • guardian and ward
  • heiresses
  • histoires pour enfants
  • juvenile fiction
  • orphans
  • orphans, fiction
  • orphelins
  • romans
  • romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse