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Time TravelGhost Stories

A Tale of Time City

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  • 1987 first published
  • 336 pages
  • 18 editions
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Diana Wynne Jones's A Tale of Time City (1987) is a time-travel fiction and ghost story novel. Readers will find themes of time travel, guidebooks, kidnapping victims and Kidnapping.

37 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 18 editions.

It runs to roughly 336 pages — 6–7 hours of reading at an average pace.

About A Tale of Time City

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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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Science fiction
  • Time travel
  • Guidebooks
  • Ghost stories
  • Children's fiction
  • Kidnapping victims
  • Kidnapping
  • Missing children

Quick answers

Who wrote A Tale of Time City?

A Tale of Time City was written by Diana Wynne Jones and first published in 1987.

What genre is A Tale of Time City?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel and Ghost Stories.

How long is A Tale of Time City?

The median edition has 336 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to A Tale of Time City?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Doll in the Garden, Mummies in the Morning and Haunted.

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