The Borrowers by Mary Norton
180 pages
Published 1952
Read from April 23 to April 24
Rating: ★★★½ out of 5
Norton
did an excellent job at writing an old-fashioned children's novel. If I
didn't make a habit of looking for the publication date before I begin to read these
books, I would have pegged The Borrowers to the Edwardian era, or
shortly thereafter. There's something proper and mustily charming about
the precise descriptions of the borrowers' living arrangements, and
naturally the quick, vivid, gently absurd caricatures of servants and
bedridden aristocracy seem drawn from a period piece. Coming into this
book fully grown, I have to say that on the whole it feels a bit flimsy,
but the charm lies in the details -- in, if I were inclined to make an
unworthy pun, in the little things.
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