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Fae & Fairy Fiction

The 13 Clocks

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  • 1950 first published
  • 124 pages
  • ★ 4.3 (3 ratings)
  • 18 editions
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The 13 Clocks is a 1950 fae fiction novella by James Thurber, Marc Simont and Neil Gaiman. Readers will find themes of uncles, princesses, minstrels and Time.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 23 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 18 editions.

At about 124 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours.

About The 13 Clocks

"There has never been anything like this before, and there will never be anything like this again…[Thurber] takes such delight in the words. It's like it's written by somebody who wants to infect you with his love of words. There are poems hidden in the text. There are places where it wanders into rhyme and out again. There are all of the invented words. The story itself is nonsense in the finest possible way." —Neil Gaiman, interviewed in The Wall Street Journal
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Uncles
  • Princesses
  • Minstrels
  • Time
  • Clocks and watches
  • Fairy tales
  • Princes
  • Children's literature
  • Children's fiction
  • Poets
  • Family
  • American fiction, Fictional works by one author

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote The 13 Clocks?

The 13 Clocks was written by James Thurber, Marc Simont and Neil Gaiman and first published in 1950.

What genre is The 13 Clocks?

It is usually shelved as Fae & Fairy Fiction.

How long is The 13 Clocks?

The median edition has 124 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The 13 Clocks?

Readers who like it often enjoy Le Petit Prince, Prince Caspian and Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte.

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