false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232550979m/4863192.jpg 3004139 10 <B>An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, <I>The Little Book</I> is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siècle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the twentieth century.</B><BR><BR><I>The Little Book</I> 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.<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> 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. <I>The Little Book</I> is a masterpiece of unequaled storytelling that announces Selden Edwards as one of the most dazzling, original, entertaining, and inventive novelists of our time. 3034636 14 8 2008 The Little Book total:770|5:150|4:314|3:200|2:74|1:32| 770 2786 1657 354 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 2 7 false Sat Aug 16 09:48:06 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 07:29:25 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 09:48:06 -0700 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 3 4 true Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 05:27:31 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 03 18:39:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 4 2 false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 10:35:03 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 10:49:00 -0800 2008
I began this book somewhat apprehensivel...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 4 4 false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 08:47:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 09:39:21 -0700 2008
The time-t...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 3 2 false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 09:28:26 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 18:59:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3803585 0143143514 9780143143512 10 6 3.62 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3803585.The_Little_Book 3 1 false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 01:25:10 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 13:34:58 -0800 2009
Very entertaining -- I've continued with the aud...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 5 4 false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 28 04:53:41 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 11 09:05:38 -0800 2008 1
There is a long tradition to the cyclical nature of these tales, beginnin...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 2 2 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Sep 12 09:38:36 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 03 23:44:19 -0800 2009 seemed like a case of a wonderful idea, sort of Jack Finney Meets John
Irving, coming unfortunately to someone who just doesn't have the skill or
the ease to realize it effectively. The writing itself is perfe...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 5 2 false Thu Sep 04 22:22:40 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 22:22:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 5 1 false Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 05:38:26 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 20:18:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 3 1 false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 10:54:21 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 05:17:47 -0700 2009
It feels like The Little Book flits over way to many subjec...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 4 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 09 14:33:51 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 14:33:51 -0700 2009 4863192 85 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232550979m/4863192.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4863192.The_Little_Book 5 1 false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 22:05:39 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 09:10:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 5 0 false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 07:44:10 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 08:03:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 2 0 true Sat Oct 03 11:33:01 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 11:46:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 4 0 false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 09:32:10 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 09:51:46 -0700 2009 1 The Time Traveler's Wife, I had The Little Book recommended to me since it was also a story of relationships and time travel.

This time, though, our hero, Wheeler Burden, gets to stay in one place: turn-of-the-century Vienna. I'll leave you to discover the circumstanc...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 0 0 false Thu Aug 20 12:17:35 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 12:17:35 -0700 2009
Edwards’ debut novel is a whimsical story of time travel that blends fiction and fact. Magically carried into the past, Stan “Wheeler” Burden—47-year-old rock star, history buff and heir to a prestigious Boston banking family—moves from 1980s San Franc...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 3 0 false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 20:12:30 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 20:22:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 1 0 false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 17:14:53 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 17:15:22 -0700 2009
And you can tell.

It is obvious Edwards is very familiar with these characters, and is intent on making the reader just as familia...more...]]> 3004139 0525950613 9780525950615 642 290 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808614m/3004139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004139.The_Little_Book 2 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 06:24:37 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 06:11:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4863192