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A Tale of Time City
by Diana Wynne Jones
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
JONES, Diana Wynne. A Tale of Time City. [London]: Methuen [1987]. 12mo, 285pp. Grey boards with spine stamped in dark red. Pages a bit yellowed (as always), else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Diana Wynne Jones.
First edition. It's London in 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped – out of her own time! Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl. A thrilling, and often funny, story from this master of children's fantasy.
Synopsis
A Tale of Time City was first published in 1987 by British author Diana Wynne Jones. It tells the story of a girl, Vivian Smith, who is kidnapped while being evacuated from London during World War II and caught up in a struggle to preserve history. In this novel, Jones explains time travel with more reference to our current understanding of science than she does in many of her other works.
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1049849
- Title
- A Tale of Time City
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Format/Binding
- Grey cloth with spine stamped in red
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 285pp.
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Books of Wonder is NYC's oldest and largest independent children's bookstore, specializing in both new and old books. Established in 1980, Books of Wonder has a store in the Flatiron/Chelsea area of Manhattan.
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