There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is...

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally pub...

An anthology illuminates storytelling as a fundamental human impulse and includes ballads, poems, parables, anecdotes, fairy tales, and legends alongside short works by such figures as Anton Chekhov, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, and ...