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Great Work of Time

His name is Caspar Last, and this is the unique chronicle of the vacation he took from the twentieth century. It begins — or does it? — when Caspar, a genius, poor of course, and resentful at that, decides to use his "time machine" to bring back a modest fortune. It begins — or maybe it doesn't — with a mysterious bequest to a secret Otherhood charged with preserving and extending the British Empire at any cost. From the bold colonial days of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes through the wide-eyed and wondrous possibilities of the present to a strange and haunting future of magi and angels, of men and many races other than our own, John Crowley's time-travel masterpiece surfs bravely along "the infinite, infinitely broken coastline of Time" to tell a story that takes place neither here nor there, but everywhen.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 144
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780553293197
  • Genres
  • fantasy, fiction, novella
  • Release date
  • 1991