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NYRB Classics
July 2008
On Sale: August 1, 2008
128 pages ISBN: 1590172752 EAN: 9781590172759 Hardcover (reprint)
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How can anyone describe this book? It isn't a parable, a
fairy story or a poem, but rather a mixture of all three. It is beautiful and it is comic. It is philosophical and it
is cheery. What we suppose we are trying fumblingly to say
is, in a word, that it is Thurber. There are only a few reasons why everybody has always
wanted to read this kind of story, but they are basic:
Everybody has always wanted to love a Princess.
Everybody has always wanted to be a Prince.
Everybody has always wanted the wicked Duke to be punished.
Everybody has always wanted to live happily ever after.
Too little of this kind of thing is going on in the world
today. But all of it is going on valorously in The 13
Clocks.
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