From book flap: Not since The Sword in the Stone has that unique genius, T.H. White, produced so fresh and enchanting a tale as this story of a new Lilliput in our own day. Maria, ten years old and an orphan, lived in Malplaquet, with an unkind governess and a kindly old cook...Not since the death of Queen Anne had anybody reposed in a temple on an island in the lake called Quincunx, but it was known as Mistress Masham's Repose. ..compared to Gulliver's Travels.
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