A tale of Time City
By: Diana Wynne Jones.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Time travel -- Fiction; Science fiction
First sentence: The train journey was horrible.
Description: In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.
Table of contents: title: Kidnapped; title: Cousin Vivian; title: Time City; title: Time Ghosts; title: Time Lock; title: Cousin Marty; title: The River Time; title: Duration; title: Guardian; title: Ceremonies; title: The Age of Gold; title: Android; title: The Gnomon; title: The Age of Silver; title: Evacuees; title: The Lead Casket?; title: Faber John