# Great Work of Time

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- Authors: [John Crowley](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-crowley)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-07-31

## Description

His name is Caspar Last, and this is the unique chronicle of the vacation he took from the twentieth century. It begins - or does it? - when Caspar, a genius, poor of course, and resentful at that, decides to use his " time machine" to bring back a modest fortune. It begins - or maybe it doesn't - with a mysterious bequest to a secret Otherhood charged with preserving and extending the British Empire at any cost. From the bold colonial days of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes through the wide-eyed and wondrous possibilities of the present to a strange and haunting future of magi and angels, of men and many races other than our own, John Crowley's time-travel masterpiece surfs bravely along " the infinite, infinitely broken coastline of Time" to tell a story that takes place neither here nor there, but everywhen.

## Editions

### Great Work of Time

- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7512-981-8
- Published: 2013-07-31
- Language: en_GB