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Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable -- an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world not far away, Smoky fathers a family and tries to learn what tale he has found himself in -- and how it is to end.

About the Author
John Crowley is the author of the novels Daemonomania;Love and Sleep; Aegypt; Little, Big; The Deep; Beasts; and Engine Summer, as well as a collection of novellas titled Novelty. A recipient of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, he is an adjunct professor at Yale University. He lives with his family in northern Massachusetts.

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On a certain day in June, 19-, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but had never visited. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
folding bedroom, old orrery, imaginary study, alligator purse, guardian trees, tall bed, single eyebrow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Daily Alice, George Mouse, Meadow Mouse, Russell Eigenblick, Fred Savage, Grandfather Trout, Old Law Farm, John Drinkwater, Ariel Hawksquill, Brother North-wind, Doctor Drinkwater, Seventh Saint, Timmie Willie, Black Crow, Green Meadow, Harvey Cloud, Wild Wood, Violet Bramble, Architecture of Country Houses, Art of Memory, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Church of All Streets, Rudy Flood, Lily Pond, Midsummer Day New!
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