The House With a Clock In Its Walls (Lewis Barnavelt)

Name: The House With a Clock In Its Walls (Lewis Barnavelt)
Rating: 4.2 (17 reviews)
Author: John Bellairs
ISBN: 9780142402573

by John Bellairs, Edward Gorey

4.2

(17 ratings)

179 pages1973PuffinISBN 9780142402573

Fantasy Young Adult Classics Adventure

About this book

Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.

Publication Details

Publisher: Puffin
Published: 1973
Pages: 179
ISBN: 9780142402573
Language: en

About John Bellairs

<a href="http://bellairsia.com">John Bellairs</a> (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href="http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>. After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/John_Bellairs">Shimer College Wiki</a>)