Merritt Abrash

• May-2014
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The objective of the seven articles reprinted in New Views on Old News is to promote reconsideration of longstanding assumptions about a variety of significant creative works. The hope of author Merritt Abrash is that readers will find Thomas More's ...

• Apr-2011
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As suggested by the title Fourteen Fraught Fables and One Debatable Day, this book is composed of two independent parts. The fourteen fables are brief subjective tales, some which might be called surreal, others simply fantastic, but all of ...

• Dec-2008
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Floating bricks poetically changing color? The authentic deed to London's St. Paul's Cathedral for sale at a street market? A mini-nebula transported in a fish-and-chips bag? British Telephone's most darling operator enmeshed in the Eternal Wheel's i...

• Feb-2004
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This biography of George Stubbs, leading eighteenth century English animal painter, is "imagined," because virtually nothing is known of his character or private life. Historian Merritt Abrash has combined his knowledge of eighteenth century Great Br...

• Dec-2002
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How does a man who denies the possibility of an ideal world react when he finds himself actually in utopia?How does he deal with being the sole outsider in a parallel world, largely similar to his own but featuring utopian principles and customs?What...