... The Thirteen Clocks is a fantasy tale written by James Thurber in 1950 in Jamaica, while he was completing one of his other novels. It is written in a unique cadenced style, in which a mysterious prince must complete a seemingly impossible task to free a maiden from the clutches of an evil duke. It invokes many fairy tale motifs.1
The story is noted for Thurbers constant, complex wordplay, and his use of an almost continuous internal meter, with occasional hidden...