The Little Book
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The Little Book could refer to:
1) The Little Book by English writer David Hughes
, the last novel by that writer. It was originally published by Hutchinson
in 1996. Written in the first person, it deals with the management of the space between the diagnosis of a serious medical condition and the time left to the sufferer.
2) The Little Book by American writer Selden Edwards. A 2008 time travel
novel published by the Penguin
Group, it explores a variant of the well-known grandfather paradox
. A man from the 1960's California suddenly finds himself walking through the streets of turn-of-the-century Vienna
, a millieu he has always been attracted to. He meets many famous (and infamous) historical characters. In between many adventures he meets and falls in love with a young American woman, and has his love amply reciprocated - only to discover, too late, that she is his grandmother who had not yet married his grandfather and now has no intention whatsoever of doing so. Then the grandfather appears on the scene - a rather nasty, violent and extremely jealous man, whose behavior makes the young woman all the more disinclined to have anything with him - but if the two of them never marry, where is the protagonist going to come from? To complicate matters further, the protagonist's father - a heroic World War II
secret agent - suddenly also appears on the scene, having somehow traveled back from a Gestapo
torture chamber in occupied Paris. And he, too, has a legitimate interest in whether or not his parents will ever marry and bring him into the world...
1) The Little Book by English writer David Hughes
David Hughes (novelist)
David Hughes was an English novelist. His best known work included The Pork Butcher and But for Bunter, published as The Joke of the Century in the United States....
, the last novel by that writer. It was originally published by Hutchinson
Hutchinson (publisher)
Hutchinson & Co. was an English book publisher, founded in 1887. The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson, and was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, where it remains as an imprint in the Cornerstone Publishing division...
in 1996. Written in the first person, it deals with the management of the space between the diagnosis of a serious medical condition and the time left to the sufferer.
2) The Little Book by American writer Selden Edwards. A 2008 time travel
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
novel published by the Penguin
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
Group, it explores a variant of the well-known grandfather paradox
Grandfather paradox
The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel first described by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent . The paradox is this: suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the traveler's...
. A man from the 1960's California suddenly finds himself walking through the streets of turn-of-the-century Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, a millieu he has always been attracted to. He meets many famous (and infamous) historical characters. In between many adventures he meets and falls in love with a young American woman, and has his love amply reciprocated - only to discover, too late, that she is his grandmother who had not yet married his grandfather and now has no intention whatsoever of doing so. Then the grandfather appears on the scene - a rather nasty, violent and extremely jealous man, whose behavior makes the young woman all the more disinclined to have anything with him - but if the two of them never marry, where is the protagonist going to come from? To complicate matters further, the protagonist's father - a heroic World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
secret agent - suddenly also appears on the scene, having somehow traveled back from a Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
torture chamber in occupied Paris. And he, too, has a legitimate interest in whether or not his parents will ever marry and bring him into the world...