I walk through the castle. Ghosts emerge from the ground, and everyone from the past wars spread all across the states. Awaken the beast within their bodies and souls. America has been awakened. A king from the underground of the castle awakens and calls to me and says that the angels from heaven called to me to fight it and stand like a stone building. A faint voice whispers in my ears. Standing before the king he asks me, I have a job for you. A soft heavenly voice has called upon me to ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world—featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal.Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until he develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to ...

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce* Illustrated* Author Biography* Interactive Table of ContentsFinnegans Wake is a work of comic prose by Irish writer James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnega...

With an Introduction byP.J. O'RourkeTHE WORLD WILL NEVERBE THE SAME ONCEYOU'VE SEEN IT THROUGHTHE EYES OF FORREST GUMPAmerica's most lovable new hero is winning smiles and hearts everywhere these days - in the Paramount motion picture, Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, and in the novel by Winston Groom(available in Black Swan paperback), hailed by critics as one of the funniest books they've ever read.Now the fun continues in this...

Rumpelstiltskin – Origins of the Fairy Tale from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Rumpelstiltskin' story. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as well as the provenance of 'Rumpelstiltskin'. It encompasses 'The Seven Bits of Bacon Rind' by Giambattista Basile, 'Rumpelstiltskin' by the Brothers Grimm, 'Tom Tit Tot' by Joseph Jacobs, the Scottish tale of 'Whuppity Stoorie' and the Mongolian narrative of 'The Use of Magic Language'. W...

Several of these Poems have appeared in the “English Review,” the “Nation,” and the “Westminster Gazette.”Love Poems and Othersby D. H. Lawrence

The San Francisco-based artist celebrates American roots music with this volume of thirteen beautifully illustrated folk songs.Our love affair with folk songs runs as deep as the enduring power of music, nature, creativity, and the longings of the human heart. In The Littlest Birds Sing the Prettiest Songs, artist Jennie Smith celebrates the tradition with her illustrated renderings of thirteen soulful songs, including time-honored Scottish ballads, classi...

In his collection of Scottish proverbs from literary texts written before 1600 Bartlett Jere Whiting has laid a solid foundation for the investigation of early Scottish proverbs and has promised a survey of later collections. [1] The following brief remarks are not intended to anticipate his survey but rather to suggest the place of this particular collection in the historical development and to point out the questions that it raises

Fresh and candid, but turns earthy, defiant, and romantic, E. E. Cummings' poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.First published in 1931, ViVa contains four of E. E. Cummings' most experimental poems as well as some of his most memorable. The volume includes such no-famous celebrations as "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and "if there are any heavens my m...

An exploration of the different tenants of Fairyland from around the world—hobgoblins, sprites, bogeys, pixies, goblins, bonga, duende, elves, and more.While it's true that fairy folk love a good garden and take great pleasure in a tulip, there are dozens of beasties who fall under the fairy domain that are not quite as delightful as the quintessential flower fairy. This book is an exploration of the many things that go bump in the night near the fairy mound. Along ...

A short paranormal romance set in the Scotland of just after Bonnie Prince Charlie's failed uprising.

In this new collection from Don Paterson, 'The Arctic' is the bar frequented in the backstreet of a post-apocalyptic world. Under its echoey aegis are gathered poems about men and women, polemical responses to a pandemic, microdot poems, odes to dogs, to movies and the male anatomy, and, in the chill undertow, a series of poems that mourn the poet's musician father. Other poets are drawn in from the cold, including the Chilean poet, Gabriela Mistral, whose verses are magically transformed ...