Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2009-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 224 MacKaye, Harold Steele 1866 1928 04009632 The Panchronicon Produced by David Clarke, Meredith Bach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Panchronicon" by Harold Steele MacKaye is a fictional novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around two sisters, Rebecca and Phoebe Wise, who find themselves entangled in the eccentric ideas of Copernicus Droop, a village reprobate with a fantastical theory about time travel. As the narrative unfolds, the characters explore themes of ambition, the passage of time, and the desire for second chances, set against the backdrop of whimsical science fiction. The opening portion of the book introduces the two sisters at their home in Peltonville Center, New Hampshire, where they engage in ordinary tasks and daily life. Rebecca, the older sister, is practical and nurturing, while Phoebe, the younger, is filled with curiosity and ambition, especially regarding her Shakespeare class. Their interactions are light yet revealing, setting the stage for the arrival of Copernicus Droop, who proposes a ludicrous plan to travel back in time using a machine he calls the Panchronicon. As their conversation unfolds, humor and absurdity intertwine, foreshadowing the extraordinary journey the characters are about to embark on. The combination of everyday life with the extraordinary speed of time travel creates a fascinating tension right from the start. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Time travel -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 522393 2025-06-11T11:50:38.899974 text/html 536129 2009-01-01T09:26:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 235572 2009-01-01T09:26:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 255650 2025-06-11T11:50:47.372905 application/epub+zip 262404 2025-06-11T11:50:40.157954 application/epub+zip 253507 2025-06-11T11:50:39.501950 application/epub+zip 426680 2025-06-11T11:50:52.834885 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385606 2025-06-11T11:50:46.635884 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 376514 2022-09-13T04:17:48.541893 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 474739 2025-06-11T11:50:37.102947 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 474564 2009-01-01T09:26:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 183748 2009-01-01T09:26:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 474555 2009-01-01T09:26:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 183718 2009-01-01T09:26:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20633 2025-06-11T11:50:53.003866 application/rdf+xml 19324 2025-06-11T11:50:39.616932 image/jpeg 3782 2025-06-11T11:50:39.564938 image/jpeg 233886 2025-06-11T11:50:38.949974 application/octet-stream application/zip