T. H. White

Mistress Masham's Repose is a novel by T. H. White that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of Lilliputians, a race of tiny people from Jonathan Swift's satirical classic Gulliver's Travels. The story is set in Northamptonshire, England, just after the Second World War; in one chapter Maria plays …

White's journal of life in the English countryside captures the constant surprises, joys, and natural wonders of the rural lifestyle