A dimension of splendor, terror and wonder—a shadow land that lies just between the limits of the imagination. Your host and guide is one of the world's best-known storytellers—a modern master of the fantastic... Rod Serling.Here, together for the first time, are nineteen of Serling's most memorable tales from the legendary series. So sit back and enjoy. There's a signpost up ahead. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone.

    As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Many of the contributors once derided in the mainstream press of the period are now part of the postmodern canon: Olson, Duncan, Creeley, Guest, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Levertov, O'Hara, Snyder, Schuyler, and others. Donald Allen's The New American Poetry delivered the first taste of these remarkable poets, and the book has since become an invaluable historical and cultural record, now available again for a new generation of readers.

    This anthology includes the masterpieces Wise Blood, Good man is hard to find, and The Violent Bear it Away.

    Includes all 22 stories from: Thieves' WorldTales from the Vulgar UnicornShadows of Sanctuary

    The Mighty Casey2. Escape Clause3. Where Is Everybody?4. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street5. Walking Distance6. The Whole Truth7. The Lonely8. Dust9. The Midnight Sun10. Mr. Dingle, the Strong11. The Odyssey of Flight 3312. The Big, Tall Wish13. The Rip Van Winkle Caper14. The Shelter

    Greek myths retold for children.Prometheus and the fire of the gods --Pandora's box --Hercules --Apollo and Diana --Pegasus and Bellerophon --Jason and the golden fleece --Circe and Ulysses --Daedalus and Icarus --Pomona and Vertumnus --Atalanta and Hippomenes --Cupid and Apollo --Prosperpina and Pluto --Cupid and Psyche --Orpheus and Eurydice --Phaeton and the chariot of the sun --Arcas and Callisto --The golden touch --Perseus and Andromeda --Pygmalion and Galatea --Romulus and Remus

    I. L. Sandomir: Opus ParaphysicumNicolaj N. Kamenev: Report on Some Concrete Historical ProblemsHis Late Magnificence, Dr. I. L. Sandomir: Epanorthosis the Moral ClinmnenHis Late Magnificence, Jean Mollet: Message to the Civilized or Uncivilized World

    You will find Chaucer, the storyteller, the sonnets of Shakespeare, the glowing beauty of Keats and Shelley, the complete "Rubaiyat," "The Rime of Ancient Mariner," the homespun strength of Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost, the bitter but precise phrases of T.S. Elliot, the fiery imagery of Dylan Thomas. This anthology is more than a rich and abundant selection of verse. It is a unique guide to the whole development of poet in the English language. Interwoven throughout the book are hundreds of exciting stories of the lives and times of the poets, and revealing interpretations of their imperishable works.More from the front cover: "English and American - 437 poems by 121 poets

    

    He took the wan humanitarianism, sentimental and self-indulgent, of his time and forced it into a startling humanism, imaginative and profoundly social. He seized upon the abstract and bloodless conceptions of political radicalism and thrust them into their necessary habitat, the heart and the brain, the human fact."--Mark Schorer William Blake

    Selections of literature expressing beauty, humor, history,wisdom or inspiration from famous people in history.

    He is fascinated by the grotesque and the bizarre, by the misfits of life, the angry, the down-and-outs and the damned. A girl of eight commits a murder. Some circus freaks are shipwrecked on an island. A chess champion walks in his sleep and destroys the games he has so carefully planned...' TLS 'Beneath his talented lightness and fantasy, Gerald Kersh is a serious man... [He] has the ability... to create a world which is not realistic and which is yet entirely credible and convincing on its own fantastic terms.' New York Times 'Mr Kersh tells a story; as such, rather better than anybody else.' Pamela Hansford Johnson, Telegraph