- Fiction, Science fiction, Time travel, Guidebooks
In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.
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Classical in form, plot-driven, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Collins, Firebird, Knopf
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780001857346
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A British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
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