To Say Nothing of the Dog: A novel of the Oxford Time Travel series“Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot, character and prose.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel. Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the twenty-first century and the 1940s in search of a hideous Victorian vase called “the bishop’s bird stump” as part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but also to prevent altering history itself. |
Contents
Section 16 | 264 |
Section 17 | 288 |
Section 18 | 306 |
Section 19 | 323 |
Section 20 | 339 |
Section 21 | 352 |
Section 22 | 365 |
Section 23 | 379 |
Section 9 | 145 |
Section 10 | 158 |
Section 11 | 173 |
Section 12 | 187 |
Section 13 | 207 |
Section 14 | 226 |
Section 15 | 241 |
Section 24 | 398 |
Section 25 | 417 |
Section 26 | 431 |
Section 27 | 450 |
Section 28 | 471 |
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