The Borrowers Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Norton
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—alien civilization
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: England
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Parents and children, Folkloric or magical people, Nineteenth century, Friendship, England or English people, Fantasy, Boys
- Locales: England
The Plot
Mary Norton, English actress, playwright, and award-winning author, tells in a four-book series the engrossing fantasy of miniature people known as Borrowers. They are so called because they live by “borrowing,” for their own use, lost or discarded items around a house, such things as scraps of food, dropped needles and pins, matches or candles that have fallen behind a chest, dollhouse furniture, or half of a pair of broken scissors—things that people know they have but simply cannot find at the moment.
The four books in the Borrowers series actually...
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