Издания и произведения

A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with “probably the best book in the world” (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrations The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill where a wicked Duke lives with his niece, the beautiful Princess Saralinda. The Duke fancies he has frozen time, for he is afraid that one day a Prince may come and win away the hand of the Princess—the only warm hand in the castle. To thwart that fate, he sets impossible tasks for Saralinda’s suitors. But when the bold Prince Zorn of Zorna…

Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile, and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales. So begins James Thurber’s sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the…

Els 13 rellotges ?s una faula per a adults i un conte fant?stic per a infants. Escrita amb un estil po?tic i cadenci?s, farcit de delicioses rimes internes, ens explica la hist?ria del duc del Castell del Ta?t, que viu amb la seva neboda, la bella Saralinda. Els tretze rellotges del castell s'han aturat a tres quarts i cinc de cinc perqu? el duc ha matat el Temps. Tot canvia quan un trobador misteri?s anomenat Xingu arriba al castell, i amb l'ajuda del voluble i oblidad?s G?lux intentar? superar la prova tit?nica que li imposa el duc: aconseguir mil pedres precioses en noranta-nou hores i retornar quan els rellotges que no toquen mai les…

Герцог с ледяным сердцем похищает принцессу, скармливает её спасителей гусям и почти убивает само Время. Но тёплые руки пленницы могут отогреть замёрзшие стрелки часов — если Принцу лоскутов и заплат удастся снять с неё заклятье.