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Humor From Harper’s

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  • Published by:
    • Harper, 1961.
  • Edited by: John Fischer and Lucy Donaldson

Description

This is a book to be read for sheer pleasure: a collection of the witty, the informal, and the entertaining, selected from the pages of Harper’s Magazine. The single characteristic shared by the wide variety of stories and articles is that each is fresh, funny, and enormously readable. The selections range in time from Mark Twain to Jean Kerr, and cover such diverse subjects as Hedda Hopper’s TV spectacular, a baby seal that doesn’t know how to swim, and the little kingdom of Lundy off the British coast… This anthology brings you old favorites and new delights to be read, shared, and read again.

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Hey! Listen to This – Stories to Read Aloud

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  • Published by:
    • Penguin, 1992, USA.
  • Edited by: Jim Trelease

Description

Jim Trelease’s New Read-Aloud Handbook led millions of people to discover the special experience of reading aloud to children. In Hey! Listen to This, Trelease brings together forty-eight read-aloud stories that parents and teachers can share with children ages five through nine. His choices range from folktales (“Uncle Remus,” “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” and the Indian “Cinderella”) to classic favorites by such wonderful children’s authors as Roald Dahl (“James and the Giant Peach”), E.B. White (“Charlotte’s Web”), Beverly Cleary (“Ramona the Pest”), C.S. Lewis (“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”), and L. Frank Baum (“Ozma of Oz”). In addition, Trelease has written a special introduction to each story and makes suggestions for further reading.

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Haunting Ghost Stories

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  • Published by:
    • Octopus Books, 1987.

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A Harvest of Horrors

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  • Published by:
    • The Vanguard Press, 1980.
  • Edited by: Eric Protter
  • Illustrated by: Hank Blaustein

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Happy Endings

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  • Published by:
    • Bobbs-Merril, 1974, USA.
  • Edited by: Damon Knight
  • Also contains:
    • The Greatest Man In the World – James Thurber
    •  The Purist — Ogden Nash
    • Father’s in the Basement — Philip Jose Farmer
    • Miss Thompson — W. Somerset Maugham
    • The Damnedest Thing — Garson Hanin
    • Tobermory — Saki
    • De Mortuis — John Collier
    • Undertaker Song — Damon Runhyon
    • The Idol of the Flies — Jane Rice
    • The Red-Headed Murderess Robert Branson
    • The Language of Flowers — Hugh Atkinson
    • Ashes to Ashes — Nunnally Johnson
    • A Letter — Isaac Babel
    • Winter — Kit Reed

Description

This is an anthology of murder mystery stories that share an unusual theme: The demise of the victim leaves the world better off.

It is hard to think of anyone whose untimely death would be gratifying to somebody – a favorite nephew, say; that would not lift up his heart and bring a little lightness to his step, a new sparkle to his eye. The victims in these stories are unremarkable people except that for one reason or another they are blots on somebody’s psychic landscape. Not everyone would agree with or approve of this viewpoint, but before we pass judgment, we should examine their histories; all fifteen of them; with care. For it is with utmost care that these masters of the macabre have presented their cases. Meticulous in detail, scrupulously fair in viewpoint, overflowing in talent, they plot their Machiavellian ways to the inexorable … happy endings.

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Hanging by a Thread

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  • Published by:
    • Houghton Mifflin, 1969, U.S.A.
  • Edited by: Joan Kahn
  • Foreword by: Ogden Nash
  • Long introduction by Eudora Welty

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