Six giants of English and American comic fiction share the stage in this collection: Jonathan Swift's biting satire, Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's gallery of eccentrics, Mark Twain's dry American humor, Jerome K. Jerome's beloved comic timing, and Edwin Abbott's flat, delightful satire come together in ten stories built to make you laugh out loud. From drawing-room comedy to absurdist adventure, this anthology proves classic literature can be every bit as funny as it is endur...

Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless experimenter working far beyond traditional verse. This book brings together, for the first time, the full range of his visual and sound poetry – from vibrant poster poems and surrealist collages to concrete poetry, cut-ups and poem-sculptures. It reveals Morgan as a major figure in twentieth-century ...

Step into a world where wit, absurdity, romance, and laughter take center stage. 10 Masterpieces of Comedy Vol. 1 brings together a selection of classic comic works from celebrated authors, offering readers an entertaining journey through some of the most memorable humor in literature. From sharp social satire and clever wordplay to ridiculous misunderstandings, eccentric characters, romantic complications, and comic adventures, these works demonstrate the remarkable variety of literary co...

Do you ever take the time to actually look around you at God's creation? His hand is on the hills, valleys, streams, rivers, waterfalls, canyons, animals, plants and people that He created. Edwin Croyle has been captivated by God's creation for many years and God gave him the opportunity to combine his interest in photography with his love for God and appreciation for His creation. Edwin has been photographing the beauty around him for over seventy-five years and he has written between 900...

**“Shari Lapena meets Ruth Ware. A compulsively readable domestic thriller.” —CHARLIE DONLEA, USA Today bestselling author of Twenty Years LaterA mesmerizing, twisty suspense novel perfect for fans of Mary Kubica and Riley Sager from an acclaimed author! Explore the deep bonds—and deadly secrets—between two very different sisters haunted by the crimes of their father murdered nearly twenty years earlier.**At first glance, Natalie Cavanaugh and Glenn Abbott...

First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever. Generations of readers have found that it has more to teach them about markets and people than years of experience. Among the most compelling and enduring pieces ever written on trading, the new Illustrated Edition brings this story to life like never before."Although Reminiscences...was first published some seventy years ago, its take on...

A landmark new translation and editionWritten almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West.Edwin F. Bryant...

There is only one New York. It didn't make America, but it made possible the America we've come to know. Here - from American Heritage magazine and such historians as Nathaniel Benchley, David McCullough, and William V. Shannon - is its remarkable story: from Henry Hudson's historic voyage and the sale of Manhattan Island to New York's occupation by British forces during the Revolution and the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, and the Whitney Museum.

An evergreen science fiction classic, Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland presents an alternate vision of society rendered completely in two dimensions.In the titular Flatland, women are line segments and men are polygons with various side lengths and angles. Even in such a simple world, social hierarchies and inequality persist. Social status is determined by a man’s regularity of shape and their number of sides. Women, as line segments, are considered dangerous b...

"Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever. Generations of readers have found that it has more to teach them about markets and people than years of experience. This is a timeless tale that will enrich your life - and your portfolio.

With 10 years of additional research on early childhood music, neurology, and language, this updated edition of Music Learning Theory for Newborn and Young Children focuses on the most critical learning period in every individual's musical life: birth to age five. The book explains how young children audiate and develop an understanding of music—and why they should experience music as early as possible. Edwin Gordon, a leading educator and researcher in music education, guides rea...

Mila Moravec is a fine art model of Czech ancestry who lives in Texas in the USA.These captivating images were taken over a six-year period, mostly in Austin, Texas, and the vicinity.