### Review For the youngest of listeners, the themes found in The Little Engine that Could continue to inspire. Former U.S. Olympic figure-skater Yamaguchi has penned a new version, complete with American Idol flash and glamour.... A sincere thank you from Yamaguchi to her family and fans. As celeb
Little, Big
β Scribed by John Crowley
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 627 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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Paperback, 538 pages
Published 1981
Fantasy Masterworks Volume 5
World Fantasy Award Winners for Best Novel (1982) Little, Big
LITTLE, BIG or, The Fairiesβ Parliament
Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable -- an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world not far away, Smoky fathers a family and tries to learn what tale he has found himself in -- and how it is to end.
About the Author
John Crowley is the author of the novels Daemonomania;Love and Sleep; Aegypt; Little, Big; The Deep; Beasts; and Engine Summer, as well as a collection of novellas titled Novelty. A recipient of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, he is an adjunct professor at Yale University. He lives with his family in northern Massachusetts.
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### **Fantasy Masterworks Volume 5** ### Review ''A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.'' --Ursula K. Le Guin ''Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.'' --Peter Straub, award-wi
### Product Description *Little, Big* tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable -- an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have t
John Crowley's masterful _Little, Big_ is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood--not found on any map--to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living
### **_Fantasy Masterworks Volume 5_** ### Review ''A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.'' --Ursula K. Le Guin ''Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.'' --Peter Straub, awa
### **Fantasy Masterworks Volume 5** ### Review ''A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.'' --Ursula K. Le Guin ''Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.'' --Peter Straub, award-wi