Includes the following works: Novels—The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays—Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings—De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.

    Tufts- We Won't Tell - William D. Robertson- Animal Crackers - Christopher Morely- Christopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers - A.A. Milne- The Easter Rabbit - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey- The Jolly Jingle of Numbers - Jo McMahon- A Nonsense Alphabet - Edward Lear- The Cupboard - Walter De La Mare - The Tug that Lost Her Temper - Anne Elizabeth Allen- The Week's Calendar - Frances Heilprin- The Swing - Robert Louis Stevenson- The Lame Squirrel's Thanksgiving - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey- The Rich Goose - Leora Robinson- The Owl and the Pussy Cat - Edward Lear- Grandfather's Penny - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey- The Garden Year - Sara Coleridge- The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat - Eugene Field- The World - Matthew Browne

    

    Kersh (1911-1968) published more than thirty books, including the noir classic Night and the City (1938) and Fowlers End (1957), which Anthony Burgess called "one of the great comic novels of the century," as well as hundreds of short stories which were once ubiquitous in British and American magazines. But though he has been championed by Angela Carter, Harlan Ellison, Ian Fleming, Michael Moorcock and others, Kersh has undeservedly fallen into neglect since his death. This is the first-ever reprint of Neither Man Nor Dog (1946), one of the author’s scarcest volumes. Kersh’s novels Fowlers End and The Great Wash and the short story collections Nightshade and Damnations, On an Odd Note, and Clock Without Hands are also available from Valancourt.CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS“[B]rutal but highly talented ... at least one [story] is ... a little masterpiece, and all of them possess the virtue of being highly readable.” – J.D. Beresford, The Guardian “[E]xplosive with violence . . . The best of them are very good. The unfailing fertility of his imagination is indeed to be wondered at . . . For entertainment of a strong kind, Mr. Kersh would be hard to beat.” – Times Literary Supplement “Kersh tells a story, as such, rather better than anybody else.” – Pamela Hansford Johnson, Daily Telegraph