This book chronicles their adventures across turnip fields, through barns and into bushes.

    Hailed by the New York Times as a rare and original collection of "verbal and visual witticisms...as joyfully illustrated as it is absurd," ARM IN ARM has delighted children—and grown-ups—for years with its endless tales, gleeful riddles, circular poems, and fantastical drawings.

    Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.Can a man be all bad? When Harry Flashman’s adventures as the reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan lead him to join the exclusive company of Lord Cardigan’s Hussars and play a part in the disastrous Retreat from Kabul, it culminates in the rascal’s finest – and most dishonest – turn.

    Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like it. Typically, on her maiden voyage, with the engine stuck in reverse, she backed out of the harbour under full sail. And she sank, regularly.How Farley and a varied crew, including the intrepid lady who married him, coaxed the boat from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario is a marvellous story. The encounters with sharks, rum-runners, rum and a host of unforgettable characters on land and sea make this a very funny book for readers of all ages.

    The rest is darkness and dismay." Finally, though, The Iron Tonic could be seen as Edward Gorey's version of a winter afternoon in one of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth century.

    

    

    The anti-climatic ending to this story pokes gentle fun at the childhood encounter with butterfly metamorphosis.

    Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant and passes the war tending the village postmistress's garden. Just after the German invasion, the secret police discover this mysterious soldier lurking behind the front line. Their pursuit of Chonkin and his determined resistance lead to wild skirmishes and slapstick encounters.

    Includes commentary by E.B. White, Frank Sullivan, Kenneth Tynan, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker, Clifton Fadiman, and Peter de Vries.

    

    

    The first of the plays, The Real Inspector Hound, is the longer of the two; here the author has created a looking glass comedy of great suspense and intrigue about two drama critics. The second play, After Magritte, is 'a surrealist comedy in detective form-or is it a comedy in surrealist form? A husband and wife argue whether the figure they saw in the street was a one-legged football player with the ball under his arm, or a man in pajamas with a tortoise under his arm. The play shows that Stoppard is as amusing and clever as always.'

    This true piece of cultural history is sure to inspire laughter, creativity, and joy among Woody Guthrie's fans.

    

    

    The impact of her work on the quiet people is imperishable. The impact of this book on the scanners who view the American literary scene in search of imperishable talent is likely to be the same. "Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell?" is offered by the publisher as a work of a major American humorist whose self-effacement should not stand in the way of her achievement. Mrs. Heath, the sister of William F. Buckley, Jr., died suddenly and tragically in 1967 at the age of 48, as the result of a massive cerebral hemorrhage, leaving behind ten children.Supper at great elm --Mademoiselle --Memorandum to: --Growing up with the Buckleys --The day Maureen was born --A letter for Maureen --Pattiche --How to raise money in the ivy league --Ladies' month in the slicks --Seven keys to anomie --The sociology of the carpool --The true spirit of Christmas --A housewife looks at soap opera --Baby in the bathroom --Horizontal enrichment information wise --Before you say no.- Prosiness in purple --A Trapp family Christmas with the Heaths --Merry Christmas to everyone in the world except men --Spare me the rod --It says here. --Politics and mortal sin --A Heath Christmas Carol program

    And that was before she met the attractive Nicholas Muir!

    

    

    Can Superman make a baby with Lois Lane, or is he doomed to be the last of his kind? This article discusses the scientific and medical issues involved in copulating with a Kryptonian.27 minutes

    The READER, which combines the four books in slightly abridged form, is published because the experiences it tells are forever and universally interesting and the writing imperishably fresh. It tells how a journalist and his artist wife gave up city living and bought for fifteen dollars a century-old shack that originally was built of massive timbers when trees were trees. The Wellses moved it to a quiet wilderness place, rebuilt it, named it "Owl Pen" and turned to the farming life.The OWL PEN READER tells of half a lifetime spent in the Canadian Eden: their brave quiet efforts at self-sufficiency, their learning to cope with a new world of ageless verities, their discovery that birds and animals are like persons. Kenneth Wells relates this intimate story in an easy narrative style that draws strength from its understatement and its simple reverence for day-to-day incident. Lucy Wells ornaments the account with beautiful wood engravings."

    Spalding allows 40 centuries of Jewry to speak for itself, not through tears, but laughter; sometimes with a sigh, but mostly in jubilant fashion.

    Comprising:Coffin, Scarcely Used;Bump in the Night;Hopjoy Was Here.

    Because she can hatch anything people want, Little Hatchy Hen is kidnapped by the "world's champion chicken thief" who plans to use her to make a fortune for himself.

    We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

    Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used the pseudonym Mark Twain while a journalist in Nevada in 1863. When his first major book, The Innocents Abroad, appeared six years later, he began what would become one of the most celebrated and influential careers in American letters. Autobiographical Writings will help readers know the author intimately and appreciate why, a century after his death, he remains so vital and appealing.This edition includes an introduction by R. Kent Rasmussen that summarizes modern scholarship on Twain.Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on 30th November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. In 1853 he left home, earning a living as an itinerant type-setter, and four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi, a career cut short by the outbreak of the Civil War. For five years, as a prospector and a journalist, Clemens lived in Nevada and California. In February 1863 he first used the pseudonym 'Mark Twain' as the signature to a humorous travel letter. A trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 became the basis of his first major book, The Innocents Abroad (1869). His numerous subsequent books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), A Tramp Aborad (1880), The Prince and the Pauper (1882), and his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (1885). He died on 21st April 1910.R. Kent Rasmussen is the author or editor of six books on Mark Twain and more than a dozen other books. He is best known for his award-winning Mark Twain A to Z (recently revised as the two-volume Critical Companion to Mark Twain) and The Quotable Mark Twain. He holds a doctorate in history from UCLA and currently works as a reference book editor in Southern California.