The Rescuers by Margery Sharp

The Rescuers by Margery Sharp

Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty  and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador's son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca  that the Prisoners' Aid Society picks  for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle. Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day  now to Norway. There Miss Bianca will be able to enlist one Nils, known to be the bravest mouse in the land, in a desperate and daring endeavor that will take them, along with their trusty companion Bernard, across turbulent seas and over the paws and under the maws of cats into one of the darkest places known to man or mouse. It will take everything they've got and a good deal more to escape with their own lives, not to mention the poet.

Margery Sharp's classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do is amply and beautifully illustrated by the great Garth Williams.

Margery Sharp was born in Wiltshire in 1905 as Clara Margery Melita Sharp. She spent part of her childhood in Malta before returning to England with her family and enrolling at Streatham Hill High School. She went on to study at Bedford College in London, where she said her time was nearly totally devoted to journalism and campus activities. Still based in London, she began her literary career at the age of twenty-one, contributing fiction and non-fiction to many of the most prestigious publications of the time in both Britain and America. Major Geoffrey Castle, an aviation engineer, married her in 1938. She was a busy Army Education Lecturer when World War II broke out, but she continued her own work during and after the war.

In addition to the 'Miss Bianca' children's series, which was animated by Disney as The Rescuers in 1977, many of her adult stories were the foundation for Hollywood movie screenplays. Margery Sharp went on to write 22 adult novels (not 26, as some sources claim), as well as several short tales and novellas (many of which were only published in magazines) and various works for children. She died one year after her husband in Suffolk, in 1991.

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ISBN 13	9781681370071
ISBN 10	1681370077
Title	The Rescuers
Author	Margery Sharp
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2016-09-06
Number of pages	160
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