The 13 clocks

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Hardcover, 124 pages

English language

Published Jan. 22, 2008 by New York Review of Books.

ISBN:
978-1-59017-275-9
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In a cold, gloomy castle where all the clocks have stopped, a wicked Duke amuses himself by finding new and fiendish ways of rejecting the suitors for his niece, the good and beautiful Princess Saralinda.

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The writing's good, but the story's a little thin (not because it's short, which is fine) and not without flaws. This would be a fun one to read aloud to kids at bed time.

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Subjects

  • Clocks and watches -- Fiction.
  • Time -- Fiction.
  • Uncles -- Fiction.
  • Princesses -- Fiction.
  • Minstrels -- Fiction.