02201cam a2200373 i 4500 623624530 TxAuBib 20190124120000.0 181001s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018044528 9781432856809 hardcover 1432856804 hardcover (OCoLC)1055567872 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda OCLCO DLC OCLCF OCP OCLCO TXKPL TxAuBib OCLCO OCLCF OCP OCLCO TXKPL TxAuBib rda Carey, Edward, 1970-, illustrator. Little : By Edward Carey ; [illustrations by Edward Carey]. 001. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. 661 pages 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud" -- Provided by publisher. In 1761 a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling. The revolutionary mob is demanding heads-- and at the wax museum, heads are what they do. -- adapted from jacket. 20190124. Tussaud, Marie 1761-1850 Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Wax modellers Fiction. France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. TXKPL