- Hardcover: 1 pages
- Publisher: Dutton (Sep 14 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1556111886
- ISBN-13: 978-1556111884
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.7 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,918,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"It's a modern take on the standard fairy tale... if you liked 'The Princess Bride,' you're going to like this. If you like a book by Jules Feiffer, 'A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears,' you'll like this. If you remember 'Fractured Fairy Tales' on Rocky and Bullwinkle, you'll like this. We suggest, read the beginning. We're not going to give away the plot, because it's all in the language with a book like this." --Daniel Pinkwater, NPR Weekend Edition Saturday
"The great New Yorker humorist James Thurber wrote a few children's books, the best of which may be The 13 Clocks, a 1950 tale of a wicked duke who thinks he has stopped time. Newly reissued, with an intro by Neil Gaiman — who calls it ''probably the best book in the world'' — Clocks is the equal of any modern kid classic. By the time he wrote The 13 Clocks, Thurber was too blind to provide his own usual scratchy but vivid illustrations, so he enlisted his friend Marc Simont to do the drawings. Simont provided beautifully cartoonish yet subtle mini-paintings that convey Clocks' varying moods of gloom, menace, surprise, and joy." --Entertainment Weekly
"The 13 Clocks is one of the cleverest [fairytales] that any modern writer has been able to tell...there is no living author who moves about in fairyland with such wit and easy familiarity." -Time
"It's one of the great kids' books of the last century. It may be the best thing Thurber ever wrote. It's certainly the most fun that anybody can have reading anything aloud." -Neil Gaiman
"There are spys, monsters, betrayals, hair's-breadth escapes, spells to be broken and all the usual accouterments, but Thurber gives the proceedings his own particular deadpan spin...It all makes for a rousing concoction of adventure, humor and satire that defies any conventional classification." -LA Times
"My exemplary Thurber fairy tale is The 13 Clocks...a small masterpiece of respectful travesty honors the whole spectrum of the traditions." -The Hudson Review
"The 13 Clocks is especially wonderful." -The Washington Post
"Rich with ogres and oligarchs, riddles and wit. What distinguishes [The 13 Clocks] is not just quixotic imagination but Thurber's inimitable delight in language. The stories beg to be read aloud...Thurber captivates the ear and captures the heart." -Newsweek
"For true modern fairy tales we leave you with James Thurber...who wrote a tale...with charm and grace in The Thirteen Clocks. These I recommend if you are tired of Grimm." -ABC Radio
Thurber's stories are "for children to dream through and for adults to read as parables" -Guardian
"Everyone who reads to their children knows...to read the stuff that you love, or that you love to roll off your tongue...I'd put in a personal endorsement for James Thurber's The 13 Clocks here..." -Guardian
"Gothic, gruesome, and written with the wit of the master wordsmith.If you saw my copy, you'd believe me when I say I've read it more than 13 times." -Nicola Morgan, The Scotsman
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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The Thirteen Clocks is James Thurber's enduring story of life in a castle where time stands still on all the clocks at ten minutes to five. The wicked Duke ignores time and temperature, and the only warmth he understands comes from Princess Saralinda, his fair niece.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Puzzling,
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This review is from: 13 CLOCKS, THE-P561636/4 (Paperback)
There is so much darkness in it, even with Thurber's quixotic humor. While I liked it, I'm not exactly sure what it is supposed to mean, but I do think it is supposed to mean something. It contains goodness and cruelty, romanticism and sinister characters. I think it may be a parable, but to what end? I liked his take on the matter of time, and I love Thurber's writing. My copy has wonderful illustrations.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Xorn of Xorna!! HOORAY for the 13 Clocks!,
By Sidhe (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 13 Clocks (Hardcover)
I first heard this enchantingly wonderful book on cassette tape when i was at art lessons. I would wait impatiently till the next week so I could hear more~ more about the Golux (who resembles only half the things he says he doesn't!) and about Princess Saralinda and the Prince whose name begins with X... and doesn't! This book is full of whimsical wonderful wordplay and contains almost all of my favorite quotes of all time. It isn't very long, but every sentence is filled with some little quips or verbal oddities that, quite literally, made me smile and laugh while reading (a funny sight XD). This book is without question one of my favorites of all time~ a truly wonderful tale that can be read over and over again without ever growing old. Truly classique. I mean, the book that's given me my tagline HAS to be great: "We all have flaws and mine is being evil."
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book,
By "chimmy10" (SJC, Indiana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 13 CLOCKS, THE-P561636/4 (Paperback)
This is a story that is so simple, yet incredibly complex. You don't quite now whats going on unless you think about it. It's a doorway to discover all kinds of interesting about yourself and life. This is just an all-around great book.
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