Desbarollda, The Waltzing Mouse [Kindle Edition]

Noel Langley (Author), Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator)

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A story full of drama, word play and gentle satire on literary conventions, making it a delightful read for children and adults. In the first edition, the book was described as "Mr. Noel Langley's epic pastiche in the grand classic heroic manner, wherein he pays glowing homage to the nice sensibility and decorous passions that are the special elixir of the artistic temperament, whether it inhabit Heathcliff, Manon Lescaut, the Mock Turtle or Desbarollda the Waltzing Mouse."

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 3123 KB
• Print Length: 83 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1905946023
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Durrant Publishing; Kindle edition (January 16, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0034KZ0LC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,953 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #22 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > People & Places > Social Situations > Manners
  • #57 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Animals > Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs & Squirrels

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5.0 out of 5 stars Reviews from Publications, January 18, 2010

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This review is from: Desbarollda The Waltzing Mouse (Paperback)

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But the most charming book of all is a reissue of Noel Langley's Desbarollda, the Waltzing Mouse (Durrant Books, £9.99). It's hard to know whether the mannered prose or the drawings by the great Edward Ardizzone is more captivating.
-- Melanie McDonagh --London Evening Standard, December 17, 2009

This immaculate pastiche of the writing of an age more gracious than ours is a fable of the irreconcilable desires of men and women, charmingly illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, with notes on the author and illustrator.
-- William Charlton --The Tablet, November 28, 2009

I read the first paragraph and was hooked. A sixty-three page eighteenth century novel in the grand manner about a waltzing mouse. Of course.
-- Neil Gaiman --Neil Gaiman's Blog, February 10, 2007