An edition of The wonder clock: or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day (1888)

The wonder clock

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Cover of: The wonder clock by Howard Pyle, Howard Pyle
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An edition of The wonder clock: or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day (1888)

The wonder clock

or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day

by

  • 9 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

A short verse introduces a fairy tale for each hour of the day and night. Includes such tales as: Bearskin, The water of life, How one turned his trouble to some account.

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Harper

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Subjects

Fairy tales, Children's poetry, Poetry, Juvenile fiction, Tales, Juvenile literature

People

Many fools brought down by sly outsiders; animals;

Places

no ""real"" ones: ""a land far away"", a town, a city, etc.

Times

A long time ago, certainly European

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Cover of: Wonder Clock
Wonder Clock
January 1990, Peter Smith Publisher
Hardcover in English - Ill edition
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The wonder clock: or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day
1965, Printed by Dover Publications
Trade paperback in English
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The wonder clock: or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day
1915, Harper
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The wonder clock: or, four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day
1915, Harper & Brothers
Cover of: The wonder clock
The wonder clock: or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day
1888, Harper
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Pagination
318 p. :

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OL7098543M
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wonderclockorfou00pyle
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04035675
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501972

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OL2022010W

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24 wonderful stories, one for each hour of the day (clock), each with frontispiece (woodcut?) by the author, who also collected and illustrated the stories in the book (perhaps he wrote some of them as well). The hourly frontispieces also described what was going on in The House at the hour in question. Pyle's pictures and text were antiquarian, quasi-medieval. My parents read these to all of their 5 children aloud over the years (1930s-1950s), usually on hot summer afternoons. We LOVED them.

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