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Title: Little Kingdoms
Author: Steven Millhauser
ISBN: 9780375701436
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Cartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to such marvelous – and often disquieting – effect in Little Kingdoms, a collection whose three novellas suggest magical companion pieces to his acclaimed longer fictions. In “The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne, ” a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal. “The Princes, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon” is at once a gothic tale of nightmarish jealousy and a meditation on the human need for exaltation and horror. And “Catalogue of the Exhibition” introduces us to the oeuvre of Edmund Moorash, a Romantic painter who might have been imagined by Nabokov or Poe.
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