The Very Fine Clock - Couverture rigide

Spark, Muriel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798893380262

Editeur : Transit Books, 2025

Synopsis

Once there was a very fine clock named Ticky, who lived with Professor Horace John Morris and kept perfect time. Each night, at fourteen minutes past ten, his time was used to set the rest of the clocks in the house.

When the professor's friends suggest that Ticky be made a professor, too, he explains what really happens during the quiet hours of the day when the professor is out, when all the rooms have been cleaned and dusted, and the clocks talk to one another and tell the stories of their lives.

No artist is better suited to capture Ticky's quiet stateliness and grace than Edward Gorey, who brings this tale masterfully to life through his characteristic pen and ink drawings.

Full of wit, wisdom, and affairs of the heart, The Very Fine Clock is a very fine picture book.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), Memento Mori (Both Macmillan, 1959), A Far Cry from Kensington (Constable, 1988), The Girls of Slender Means (1963), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Driver’s Seat (all Macmillan, 1970), and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. In 1953 Gorey published The Unstrung Harp, the first of his more than one hundred books. In addition to illustrating his own stories, Gorey provided drawings for many books for both children and adults. Of these, New York Review Books has published The Haunted Looking Glass, a collection of Gorey’s favourite ghost stories; The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells; Men and Gods by Rex Warner; The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories by Saki; and Three Ladies Beside the Sea by Rhoda Levine. He cowrote the NYRB Kids book Fletcher and Zenobia with Victoria Chess.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transit Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798893380262
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Gorey Edward
• Nombre de pages: 34
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible