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The Little Book

Selden Edwards

Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 4496 Users | 994 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Little Book
ISBN:	0525950613 (ISBN13: 9780525950615)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dilly Burden, Wheeler Burden

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An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, The Little Book is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siècle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the twentieth century.

The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 he is forty-seven, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he is - still his modern self - wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: fin de siècle Vienna. It is 1897, precisely ninety-one years before his last memory and a half-century before his birth.

It's not long before Wheeler has acquired appropriate clothes, money, lodging, a group of young Viennese intellectuals as friends, a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young American woman, a passing acquaintance with local celebrity Mark Twain, and an incredible and surprising insight into the dashing young war-hero father he never knew.

But the truth at the center of Wheeler's dislocation in time remains a stubborn mystery that will take months of exploration and a lifetime of memories to unravel and that will, in the end, reveal nothing short of the eccentric Burden family's unrivaled impact on the very course of the coming century. The Little Book is a masterpiece of unequaled storytelling that announces Selden Edwards as one of the most dazzling, original, entertaining, and inventive novelists of our time.

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Title	:	The Little Book
Author	:	Selden Edwards
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	August 14th 2008 by Dutton Adult (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Fantasy

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Ratings: 3.73 From 4496 Users | 994 Reviews

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This book is the equivalent of that new kid that came to your high school half way through the semester...really cool, really mysterious...and once you get to know him REALLY CREEPY. The worst part is the kid never thought he was creepy, he always thought he was really really cool. This book thinks it is all that and a bag of chips. When really, it's just the creepy guy on the corner wearing a nice jacket.Basic premise...guy is weird, ends up going back in time, meeting his dad that died when he

This book is magical. It involves time-travel and really interesting relationship issues. Good read for history buffs, romance buffs and quirky sci fi buffs. Highly recommend.

My mouse just hovered over the stars above this review box for about a minute, going back and forth between "I liked it" and "I really liked it." Three or four stars? Did I like it or really like it? I settled on liking it.It's a really engaging read. The main character, Wheeler Burden, is a sort of mythical American man, good at everything every boy wants to be good at. He is son to a man very much like him. That the author manages to make these uber-men seem believable is a great testament to

This book knocked me out of my socks. I had to read it twice to fully appreciate the intricacies of the plot. Because of the nature of this particular plot, its hard to talk about this book without spoilers, but because its a book that bears being read twice, I honestly dont think the talking about the overall plot will lessen anyones enjoyment reading it.Its a story about three generations of men in the Burden family, except as the family secrets come out, the reader discovers that theyre not

I wanted so much to like it, to get all caught up in it. I kept reading cause I thought there would come a resolution of voices, historical characters intermingled with fictional ones, some reason to have gotten to the end. But when the end came I was so glad to put the book down. I wanted to explore time travel, especially to fin de siecle Vienna, a glorious, vibrant time and place. But I just kept getting bogged down. Stray, competing lines of thought crossed and recrossed constantly. The

I really wanted to give this book three stars but I just can't. To me itseemed like a case of a wonderful idea, sort of Jack Finney Meets JohnIrving, coming unfortunately to someone who just doesn't have the skill orthe ease to realize it effectively. The writing itself is perfectly soundand literate, but for me the author didn't have the command to carry off hisridiculously complicated structure - featuring multiple narrative lines,multiple time periods, and constantly changing angles of view,

Dilly Burden was a legend and a hero. He excelled at his Boston boys' school and at Harvard, was a star baseball player and gave his life in World War II when he was tortured and killed by the Gestapo in France. His only son, Wheeler, has no memory of his Dad but has spent his life living up to the legend.Where Dilly was an icon, Wheeler is more eccentric. He followed in his father's footsteps to the Boston boys' school and despite guidance from a much beloved teacher, the Haze, (who had also