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The 13 Clocks by James Thurber7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() James Grover Thurber (1894-1961), was an American cartoonist, author, humourist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. So begins James Thurber's sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke’s beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. What's more, we want the 13 castle clocks to whir and tick and tell us that the time is NOW. In a comic and poetic way, this story makes us all want to love a Princess and to be a Prince. The only warmth he understands is the warm hands of Princess Saralinda, his fair niece, whom he cherishes and protects from suitors. He is a wicked Duke who has hands cold enough to choke a bull. The Duke of the castle ignores time and pays no attention to temperature either. James Thurber's enduring story of life in a castle where time stands still on every clock at 10 minutes to five. ![]() 124pp, illustrated, illustrated endpapers. The 13 Clocks (Childrens Collection) (Hardcover) Hardcover 16 offers from 5. 2" loss to top of front jacket and spine neatly repaired with strip of blue marbled paper, edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of back jacket and spine, corners and folds rubbed with small loss, some time staining to back jacket, not price clipped (9s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy. Jacket and illustrations by Mark Simont (illustrator). ![]()
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