- Space and time in fiction, Humorous stories, Space and time, Fiction
Melvin recounts his extraordinary adventures in time and space with his 111-year-old sort of great-Uncle Borgel.
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Warm, contemporary, comic and unpretentious.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 170
- Publisher
- Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Macmillan, Audio Literature
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780689716201
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