Little

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary, Historical
Cover of the book Little by Edward Carey, Penguin Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Edward Carey ISBN: 9780525534341
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: October 23, 2018
Imprint: Riverhead Books Language: English
Author: Edward Carey
ISBN: 9780525534341
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: October 23, 2018
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Language: English

**"An amazing achievement...A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." --Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked

The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.**

In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do.

In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel--a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

**"An amazing achievement...A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." --Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked

The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.**

In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do.

In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel--a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.

More books from Penguin Publishing Group

Cover of the book Christendom Destroyed by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Slocum 341 by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Paths Not Taken by Edward Carey
Cover of the book King John by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Deep Drive by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Procrastinate on Purpose by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Romance Is My Day Job by Edward Carey
Cover of the book The Red Scarf by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Hide Your Eyes by Edward Carey
Cover of the book The Artful Nuance by Edward Carey
Cover of the book The Smartest Retirement Book You'll Ever Read by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Tooth and Claw by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Charmed & Ready by Edward Carey
Cover of the book The Infernal Battalion by Edward Carey
Cover of the book Latino in America by Edward Carey
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy