Book Summary
ClockWork: Or all wound up is a interesting tale about a German town named Glockenim where the residents set great store by their clock making tradition: each time an apprentice becomes a master of his craft, he commemorates the occasion by adding a new figure to the towns great clock. On the evening of a celebration, a sister train of events is set in motion when the local novelist Fritz entertains the villagers with his most recent work: the tale of Prince Florian, the son of the evil Dr. Kalmenius. However, Fritz' narrative is interrupted by the arrival of a cloaked man who appears to have sprung straight from the pages of his story: the aforementioned enigmatic Dr. Kalmenius of Schatzberg, who has come, or so it appears - to help the young apprentice clockmaker Karl to achieve an unearned triumph at the next days ceremonies. Meanwhile, poor old Prince Florian, whose time has nearly run out, stumbles into Glockenmeim and finds the inn keepers little daughter Gretl, who is the one person there who is capable of restoring true true life to the mechanical Prince.
