To Say Nothing of the Dog: A novel of the Oxford Time Travel series

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Random House Publishing Group, Nov 18, 2009 - Fiction - 608 pages
“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 1
1
Section 2
17
Section 3
35
Section 4
55
Section 5
74
Section 6
94
Section 7
116
Section 8
132
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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About the author (2009)

Connie Willis has won six Nebula and Six Hugo Awards (more than any other science fiction writer) and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for her first novel, Lincoln’s Dreams. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other works include Bellwether, Impossible Things, Remake, and Uncharted Territory. Ms. Willis lives in Greeley, Colorado, with her family.

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