A kind of elvish craft

A kind of elvish craft

The Little Grey Men

Gnomes, scale, species, and posthumanism

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Dimitra Fimi
Apr 18, 2025
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The Little Grey Men is one of those forgotten masterpieces by naturalist, artist, and author Denys James Watkins-Pitchford, writing under the pen-name B.B. The book was published in 1942, in the midst of WWII, and won the Carnegie Medal for that year. It follows the adventures of three gnomes, Sneezewort, Baldmoney, Dodder, “the last gnomes left in Engl…

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