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The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Second printing
  • 4.31 ·
  • 16 Ratings
  • 162 Want to read
  • 12 Currently reading
  • 31 Have read

A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

Publish Date
Publisher
Dial Press
Language
English
Pages
179

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
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2004, BWI Bound
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2003, Gallimard
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2001, Editions du Rocher
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1973, Dial Books for Young Readers
Hardcover in English - printing (13)
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1973, Dial Press
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New York

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1973

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.B413 Ho

The Physical Object

Format
Library Binding
Pagination
179 p.
Number of pages
179

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5288167M
Internet Archive
housewithclockin0000unse
LCCN
72007600
OCLC/WorldCat
1193940353
Goodreads
60604324

Work Description

Lewis had always wanted to live in a house like Uncle Jonathan's -- full of marble fireplaces and secret passageways and dozens of unused, unexplored rooms. And living with Uncle Jonathan, a real wizard, was full of fun and surprises.

But while Uncle Jonathan practiced funny and comfortable white magic, the original owner of the old house, Isaac Izard, had been an evil sorcerer. He had devised a plan for bringing about the end of the world. Somewhere in the walls of the house he had hidden a clock. Every night Lewis and Uncle Jonathan could hear it ticking -- sometimes loud, sometimes soft -- marking off the minutes until doomsday.

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Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.
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