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The Instruction Manual, " the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations, " the second chapter, describes the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- "for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity." Finally, the "Cronopios and Famas" section delightfully characterizes, in th...

In this book, William Herrick's view of humanity is unsparing yet compassionate. He sees life as commitment--to ideals, friends, family--but no one, least of all Herrick, said it was going to be easy.

Heartstop contains three unusual and riveting stories by Martin Grzimek, a highly acclaimed young German writer. Heartstop - Timestop - Finlandia.

Here is a book that is elegant, good-humored, innocent, perverse, poetic, funny, extravagant, and philosophic. Then appears the cat Daemon! Gentle reader, not a demon but manifestation of the spirit the ancients supposed presided over their most secret intentions.

Here is a book that is elegant, good-humored, innocent, perverse, poetic, funny extravagant, preposterous, lipid, insouciant, and philosphic.

A special aspect of Federico Garcia Lorca's personality was the ease with which he made friends with children and the delight he took in entertaining them. In addition to the little puppet shows he created for his sisters and their friends and for the children of other writers, he wrote many little poems as well as words set to folk tunes that are still read and sung by Spanish children today and which, in their rarity and charm, are just the ...

Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport's brilliant story collection, first published in 1979, is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time.