Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is stupider, uglier, weaker, or slower than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced.One April, fourteen-year-old Harrison Bergeron is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel, by the government.

    After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters.In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their “sympathies and differences.” A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition.

    With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel. A lieutenant in the Japanese army comes home to his wife and informs her that his closest friends have become mutineers. He and his beautiful loyal wife decide to end their lives together. In unwavering detail Mishima describes Shinji and Reiko making love for the last time and the couple’s seppuku that follows.

    Inspiration for the Japanese anime series RahXephon and is also referenced in CLANNAD and Portal 2."Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you."

    His dissections of science, spiritual faith, legal systems, vanity, and love make him the undisputed master of social commentary.

    Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they abide in the hearts of their readers.

    Dingle, the StrongA Thing About MachinesThe Big, Tall WishA Stop at WilloughbyThe Odyssey of Flight 33Dust

    Brain-twisters, spine-chilling perils, secret codes, daring deductions, well-hidden clues, suspicious-looking characters—these are just a few of the tantalizing ingredients Miss Christie serves up to Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Harley Quin, Mr Parker Pyne, Tommy and Tuppence, and Inspector Evans in this collection.Contents: The veiled lady — The Nemean lion — The girdle of Hyppolita — The Market Basing mystery — Tape-measure murder — The blue geranium — The four suspects — The face of Helen — The bird with the broken wing — The Regatta mystery — Problem at Pollensa Bay — The unbreakable alibi — Accident

    Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages. Also teaching and practice aids, Russian-English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions to each selection, study questions, more. Especially helpful are the stress accents in the Russian text, usually found only in primers.

    Reading these stories entails abandoning the terms of one's own comfort. The author's relentless vision demands that readers allows themselves to be hypnotised, taken over by her repetitive cadences and burning images of grief and loss. And yet, in the beauty of her images there is a tremendous affirmation of the world.

    These stories are filled with imaginative and moral solutions to each case. In one case, he is called to decide what should be done with a man caught stealing a smell. The stories are creative, the solutions inventive, and the judgements are fair.

    Contents:1 · Nasty 2 · Abominable 5 · Rebound [“The Power”] 7 · Nightmare in Gray 8 · Nightmare in Green 9 · Nightmare in White 10 · Nightmare in Blue 12 · Nightmare in Yellow 14 · Nightmare in Red 15 · Unfortunately 16 Granny’s Birthday 18 · Cat Burglar 20 · The House 22 · Second Chance 24 · Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility 26 · Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability 27 · Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality28 · Dead Letter [“The Letter”] 30 · Recessional 31 · Hobbyist 33 · The Ring of Hans Carvel 34 · Vengeance Fleet [“Vengeance, Unlimited”]36 · Rope Trick 37 · Fatal Error [“The Perfect Crime”] 39 · The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I, II, & III [“Of Time and Eustace Weaver”] 43 · Expedition 45 · Bright Beard 46 · Jaycee 47 · Contact [“Earthmen Bearing Gifts”] 49 · Horse Race 51 · Death on the Mountain 54 · Bear Possibility56 · Not Yet the End 58 · Fish Story 60 · Three Little Owls (A Fable)62 · Runaround [“Starvation”]660 · Murder in Ten Easy Lessons [“Ten Tickets to Hades”] 740 · Dark Interlude · Fredric Brown & Mack Reynolds 810 · Entity Trap [“From These Ashes”]950 · The Little Lamb 106 · Me and Flapjack and the Martians113 · The Joke [“If Looks Could Kill”]121 · Cartoonist [“Garrigan’s Bems”]128 · The Geezenstacks137 · The End [“Nightmare in Time”]

    "Eight Men" presents eight stories of black men living at violent odds with the white world around them. As they do in his classic novels, the themes here reflect Wright's views on racism and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America.

    As a short-story writing, Lawrence at his best was unexcelled.

    The Tagores tried to combine traditional Indian culture with Western ideas. Tagore was the first Indian to bring an element of psychological realism to his novels. His writing is viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and other-wordly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West.This volume consists of a novel, a memoir, selection of short stories and collection of 103 poems called Gitanjali.

    

    As a short-story writing, Lawrence at his best was unexcelled.

    As everyone knows, he is a specialist in the macabre and bizarre. Askes to explain his approach to fictional crime, he wrote:"The blunt instrument, the gang murder, the paid assassin have always seemed to me positively indelicate. Murder is a fine art and needs the embellishment of a sophisticated imagination. The true aficionado prefers to have his nerves ruffled by the implied thread--the Borgias rather than the Syndicate. What is more delightful than a domestic crime, when it is executed with subtlety and imagination? I leave to other more pedestrian talents materials based on newspaper accounts. True crimes, ugh! Alas, most of them are dull and give no evidence of the careful planning and loving thought that should go into any human activity as rewarding as murder."

    Terra has recently signed a treaty with the planet Petreac. But revolution threatens and the Terrans must save the Nenni cast or their mission will end in abject failure.

    Find out why in this classic horror story of a man who peers out of his airplane window to see a gremlin destroying the wing of the plane.

    THE LAST SPIN is a diverse and brilliant exposition of his multi-faceted talents, with the diamond-hard prose, the vivid characterisation that pulsates through his best-selling novels: THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE - SECOND ENDING - STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET - A MATTER OF CONVICTION Contents: First Offence, The Fallen Angel; Silent Partner; Small Homicide; The Girl With The Pretty Eyes; See Him Die; Escape; Kid Kill; Alive Again; The Innocent One; Robert; The Prisoner; ...Or Leave It Alone; Kiss Me, Dudley; The Last Spin

    B. Vestal (1-36).Heidi Goes to the Pasture by Johanna Spyri, illustrated by Robin Jacques and Ninon (37-66).Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Aldren A. Watson (67-76).How the Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky (77-84).Mop Top written and illustrated by Don Freeman (85-92).One Horse Farm written and illustrated by Dahlov Ipcar (93-106).What the Good-Man Does Is Always Right by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Maurice Sendak (107-116).Hunters from the Sky illustrated with photos (117-124).Thomas Jefferson: Father of Democracy by Smith Burnham, illustrated by Henry Pitz (125-133). True Book of Health by Olive V. Haynes, illustrated by Harvey Weiss (134-145).Tricks to Fool Your Friends by Robert North, illustrated by Leonard Kessler (146-155).Let's Go to Argentina illustrated with photos (156-160).

    The enchantment is immediate. The magic carpet waits to bear the reader to the high and far-off mountains of wonder, where animals reveal themselves for what most children know they are - human beings in disguise.The animals in these stories talk a human language. They are wise and kindly, cruel and foolish, just as we are ourselves. They are easy to know and believe in.In this collection of animal stories, the compiler has ranged far and well. There are stories from India, from Africa, from Europe and North America. There are modern and ancient myths and legends. The young reader will find old friends here, and some he may never have met before. He will find too the work of such distinguished writers as Joseph Jacobs, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Waldemar Bonsels, and the Brothers Grimm. But most important of all, he will find delight.

    Warner Munn; The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Cookie Lady by Philip K. Dick; The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers; The Curse Kiss by Theodore Roscoe; Fungus Isle by Philip M. Fisher; and The Copper Bowl by George Fielding Eliot.

    

    Its brilliance burned into his retina ... and he knew that men could easily kill and kill for that one beauty alone.

    

    Found in a BottleLigeiaThe Fall of the House of UsherWilliam WilsonThe Mask of the Red DeathThe Imp of the Perverse

    

    In this memoir, Jesús Colón recalls a time when he chose not to assist a white woman who needed help on the subway.

    

    As a short-story writing, Lawrence at his best was unexcelled.

    New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition, first printing.Octavo. 246 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Contents:The Show Must Go On The Cure Daybroke Show Biz The Masterpiece I Like Blondes Dig That Crazy Grave Where the Buffalo Roam Is Betsy Blake Still Alive? Word of Honor The Final Performance All on a Golden Afternoon The Gloating Place The Pin I Do Not Love Thee, Dr. Fell The Big Kick Sock Finish

    Omnibus of classic pulp crime fiction of the 30's/40's/50's; contributors include Gardner, Christie, Woolrich, Miller, Lewis, Bradbury, Sayers.

    IntroductionDaisy MillerWashington SquareThe Aspern papersThe pupilThe turn of the screw