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Perverse and Foolish: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth
Perverse and Foolish A Memoir of Childhood and Youth
Author: L. M. Boston
ISBN-13: 9780689501364
ISBN-10: 0689501366
Pages: 139
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Publisher: Atheneum
Book Type: Paperback
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The hardcover has the same ISBN number as the paperback edition.

From the book jacket:
Mrs. Boston lived at Hemingford Grey near Cambridge, in a house built over 850 years ago, which has been the inspiration for nearly all her books. The first of these, YewHall, was published in England in 1954....followed by The Children of Green Knowe, the first of a series of six books for children...that have brought her letters and visitors from all over the world, as well as critical aclaim.

This book is a memoir of her early life....also revealed....pointers to her emergence, years later, as a distinguished writer and poet. Her best known works, her Green Knowe books for children, have been acclaimed as classics throughout the world.