The Dwarf
Contributors: Alexandra Dick (Translator)
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: January 1, 1958
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780374521356
First sentence: I AM twenty-six inches tall, shapely and well proportioned, my head perhaps a trifle too large.
Description: Set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, this novel centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf Piccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on politcal intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege.