Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes first published in 1958, is now back in print. Ranging from the poignant to the comical to the surreal, these selections include writing by Aldous Huxley, Martin Gardn...
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Help instill a love of words and language and an early appreciation for their vast possibilities with this read aloud for children. A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration, until one day, he crawls into a magical b...
Spanning in scope from this century's early moderns, including Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence, and Colette, to the best of todays practitioners, such as Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates, this collection features sixty-two stories f...