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The 13 Clocks. (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) James Thurber, Marc Simont. 978-1-101-66634-0. Ebook. Penguin Classics. Sep 20, 2016. Add to Wish ListRemove. The 13 Clocks.
Feb 15, 2020 · 124 pages : 22 cm. 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. Illustrated front cover. Illustrated lining papers.
7,890 ratings1,229 reviews. One of the most prolific literary figures of the 20th century, James Thurber wrote countless stories, poems, satires, and fables, and he created thousands of drawings. The 13 Clocks mixes puns and nonsense in a story complete with a princess, prince, and happy ending--put together in incomparable Thurber style.
The New York Review of Books, as part of the estimable "Children's Collection" of reprints of forgotten classics, brings a treasure back to life with their hardcover reproduction of the original edition of THE 13 CLOCKS, with illustrations by Marc Simont and a new foreword by Neil Gaiman. The high level of vocabulary and clever use of language ...
Marc Simont (1915–2013) illustrated nearly a hundred books, among them James Thurber’s The 13 Clocks and a 1990 edition of Thurber’s Many Moons. He worked with such authors as Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (on the Nate the Great series) and Margaret Wise Brown and won both a Caldecott Honor and a Caldecott Medal for his illustrations of children’s books.
May 30, 2023 · The 13 Clocks is light enough to read in a day or two, but also unique enough to stick with you for a lot longer than that. It seems like a typical fairy-tale conundrum: a wicked Duke is trying to prevent his niece, Princess Saralinda, from marrying, because he is always cold and her hand is the warmest in all the castle.
Aug 2, 2016 · A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with “probably the best book in the world” (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrations The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill where a wicked Duke lives with his niece, the beautiful Princess Saralinda. The Duke ...
