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The Little Book

Selden Edwards

Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 4496 Users | 994 Reviews

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Title	:	The Little Book
Author	:	Selden Edwards
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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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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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Original Title:	The Little Book
ISBN:	0525950613 (ISBN13: 9780525950615)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dilly Burden, Wheeler Burden

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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.

I'm hoping my book club people aren't in Goodreads, or at least not obsessively checking my reviews. From time to time a book won't be on our official list but people will pass it around because they liked it so much. This is one of those books. So I happily took it home and moved it to the top of my reading list. I read a few chapters but it was about baseball (ugh) and I wasn't pulled in, but as I approached the end of 2015 I wanted to get in-process books off my reading list.Things to like

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

The title of The Little Book doesnt speak to a preference for subtlety. Our hero is a Harvard-educated, no hitterthrowing, rock star best-selling author who finds himself transported back to Vienna circa 1897. There he falls right in with the cream of the young art scene, schools Sigmund Freud on his own revolutionary theories, inherits a crown jewel from the queen herself, ponders killing a young Hitler and yes, even gets a game of catch in with his dearly departed dad.Yikes. The book, written

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,

Added 8/30/18. (first published 2008) The premise (time travel to Vienna) was a good idea but the shifting around makes it too complicated to follow."The story of Wheeler [Wheeler Burden], former talented pitcher, former famous musician, and former bestselling author, who has suddenly appeared in the Austria of the 1890s. There he runs into some people from his own personal history and discovers a vast amount of true history of his family and during this pivotal time and place in European