The 13 Clocks

3.9 avg 17 votes

About this book

"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

3.9 ★★★★☆ average of 2 sources · 17 votes
Open Library 4.3 3
Apple Books 4.0 17

Reader Profile

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3.9/5 · 17 readers · 124 pages · ≈ 2 h 18 m · Easy

How long does it take to read The 13 Clocks?

About ≈ 2 h 18 m — 124 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mThe 13 Clocks~2 h 18 m

How many pages is The 13 Clocks?

124 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320The 13 Clocks124

What genre is The 13 Clocks?

It sits on the Fairy Tales, Fiction shelves.

Is The 13 Clocks in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote The 13 Clocks?

James Thurber.

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