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Edition 3 (1921)

FictionBiographyDrama

Winners

2 people
Walter de la Mare うぉるたー・で・ら・めあ Winner

A fantastical novel told from the perspective of the small-statured Miss M., tracing loneliness, desire, self-making, and estrangement from society. Quiet humor and an unsettling atmosphere intertwine, and the shifting boundary between reality and fantasy leaves a strong impression.

A fantastical novel that reflects the size of the world through a small body.

528 pages
fantasylonelinessself-makingalienationsocial satire
Giles Lytton Strachey らいとん・すとらちぇー Winner

Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria is a compact biography that traces the queen's life through both private experience and public power. Rather than celebrating monarchy at face value, it presents Victoria as a figure shaped by feeling, judgment, and tension with her age.

A sharp biography that reads the queen as a person, not a myth.

256 pages
biographyVictorian eraBritish monarchyfemale sovereignliterary biography