To Say Nothing of the Dog

To Say Nothing of the Dog

1990 • 514 pages

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Average rating4.1

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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 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It’s part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself.

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4 primary books5 released books

Oxford Time Travel

Oxford Time Travel is a 5-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1982 with contributions by Connie Willis.

Fire Watch
Doomsday Book
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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I love this book so much.

February 1, 2017

This is a very amusing book, especially for those who have read Three Men in A Boat. I think Jerome leaves Willis in the dust for outright belly laughs, but this book did have me smiling a lot.

September 21, 2014

I got this book in an unexpected book trade with someone, and enjoyed the read. It's subtly amusing - if you're not looking for the humor, you probably won't find it, but also a fun story.

January 1, 2005

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