In The Big, Bad Book of Beasts ($15) we have the wildest collection in the world of both animal lore and knowledge. Never mind “Lions and tigers and bears oh my!” we also have dragons, monsters and dinosaurs, my oh my! For centuries now the most popular books, after the Bible, in the western world, were ‘bestiaries’, those fancy and colorful encyclopedias which provided us with with the knowledge and mythology surrounding animals. In this new book the award winning writer Michael Largo updates all those which have gone before to create a stunning volume for the 21st century. Exceptional.
There are many quotes pertaining to Twain which have been printed over the years. Mark Twain has been described, by his friend William Dean Howells, as “the Lincoln of literature and at the heart of his work lies that greatest of all American qualities; irreverence”. The Washington Post “More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote […]