In his wanderings, John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit, and the magic of his guitar to preserve him. Manly Wade Wellman's Silver John is one of the most beloved figures in fantasy, a true American folk hero of the literary age. For the first time the "Planet Stories" edition of "Who Fears the Devil?" collects all of John's adventures published throughout Wellman's life, including two stories about John before he got his silver-stringed guitar that have never previously appeared in a Silver John collection. Lost, out of print, or buried in expensive hardcover editions, the seminal, unforgettable tales of "Who Fears the Devil?" stand ready for a new generation ready to continue the folk tradition of Silver John!

    Today it details Appalachia's difficult past, and at the same time, presents an accurate historical backdrop for a contemporary understanding of the Appalachian region.

    Beautifully illustrated with over 300 contemporary and historical photographs as well as dozens of paintings, The End of the Game is a legendary workvividly telling the story of explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters whose quests have changed the face of Africa forever.

    

    Editor Bernard Taper has gathered together a heady selection of newspaper articles, correspondence, poetry, and short stories that are humorous--sometimes exasperating and controversial--but always engaging. Like a good sidekick in a comedy duo, Edward Jump, a contemporary of Twain's, offers through his lively illustrations a visual drum roll to Twain's cantankerous prose. From earthquakes, police scandals, and tantalizing silver mine bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in "exquisitely modulated tones" and seals "writhing and squirming like exaggerated maggots" below the Cliff House, Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar.

    This engaging sketchbook of antiques shows the fascination that period had in the lore and beauty of the English alphabet, the pride in beautiful hand-lettering and initialing.

    In undertaking the study of a successful socialist movement in a Canadian province (Agrarian Socialism '50), I was initially interested in learning why Canada, seemingly so akin socially to the US, was able to cast up a large socialist party when the US couldn't. Many of the sociological explanations for the weakness of American so­cialism seemingly also applied to Canada. As the reader of The 1st New Nation will discover, sections of it still are concerned with the sources of structural variation between the two N. American nations. The comparative sections of Social Mobility in Industrial Society (w/Reinhard Bendix '59) were similarly stimulated by an effort to test the thesis that political class consciousness was weak in the US because the US had a much higher rate of mass mobility than European nations. The research which sought to specify the ex­tent of mass mobility (crossing the line between the manual working class & the nonmanual middle class) concluded that there weren't significant differences between rates of mobility, as judged by these crude indicators, between industrialized Europe & America. (It should be noted, however, because many readers have ignored the caveat, that this book never contended that variations don't exist in rates of elite mobility, particularly among those occupational strata which require high levels of education.) Since the evidence with respect to mass mobility didn't sustain the hypothesis, Bendix & I turned to an analysis of the factors in American social structure which sustained the impression that mobility was higher in America. My subsequent work on values & the American class system presented here represents an elaboration of this work which I began with Bendix & I acknowledge my indebtedness to him for helping me formulate my ideas on the subject."--Preface