WHITE, E. B.

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Stuart Little. First edition of this beautifully illustrated classic of children's literature, presented here in a fine binding with an onlay of Stuart Little himself. This bestselling work was the author's first children's novel, preceding Charlotte's Web by seven years.The author stated that the idea for the main character was revealed to him in a dream: "Stuart Little came into being as the result of a Journey I once made. In the late Twenties, I took a train to Virginia... then returned to New York by rail. While asleep in an upper berth, I dreamed of a small character who had the features of a mouse, was nicely dressed, courageous and questing. When I woke up... I made a few notes about this mouse-child - the only fictional figure ever to have honored and disturbed my sleep" (quoted in Scott, p. 253).

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