Product Description: “Full of life, an excellent rendering, and a pleasure to read.”—Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize-winning poetIn this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since...read more

Product Description: The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York’s Greenwich Village since the 1920’s. But since 2006, when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter bought and refurbished the restaurant, it has also been one of the most sought after destinations in the city...read more

Product Description: Known for his brilliant cartoons and award-winning children’s books, William Steig (1907–2003) leaves a legacy that spans much of the twentieth century. This lavishly illustrated book features over 280 of Steig’s drawings, many of them previously unpublished, and examines every aspect of his work, from the “Small Fry” cartoons—his earliest submissions to the New Yorker— and haunting symbolic drawings of the late 1930s and 1940s, to his later, bitingly funny cartoons and celebrated books for children...read more

A volume of definitive strips, culled from such major periodicals as The Nation, the Village Voice, and the New Yorker reflects his acerbic observations about everything that is wrong with the world, poking fun at everyone from politicians and lawyers to religious zealots and the artist himself. Original.

A popular satiric artist presents a collection of his favorite magazine covers, theater posters, illustrations, and other caricatures as published in such periodicals as The New Yorker, Time, and Rolling Stone, in a volume complemented by celebrity publisher anecdotes.

A award-winning caricaturist uses his distinctive style to illustrate the strange and eccentric lives of ten iconic literary figures--Tolstoy, Sartre, Eliot, Proust, Yeats, Brecht, Jung, Rand, Mailer, and Hellman--depicting the authors in various sparkling moments.

A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune.

Leo wonders why Morty always causes him trouble, but after spending a Saturday with his violin teacher and then seeing himself in a newsreel at the movies, Leo doesn't worry about Morty anymore.

A collection of Sorel's satirical renderings of heroes, rogues, fools, and geniuses offers a visual commentary on politics, history, the arts, and entertainment, with caricatures of figures ranging from Moses to Madonna, Napoleon to the Watergate Gang. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

After Johnny's radio breaks, his neighbor, Mr. Zaga the inventor, helps him to repair it, but in doing so, Mr. Zaga turns the radio into a futuristic transmitter that has the capability to report the news of tomorrow one day ahead of time.

Shows and describes the first meetings of Lenin and Trotsky, Garbo and Barrymore, Mahler and Freud, Chaplin and Cocteau, Lang and Goebbels, Chekhov and Tolstoy, Wilde and Whitman, and De Gaulle and Roosevelt

A french zillionaire and his daughter cross the Atlantic in the S.S. 'Gigantic,' where she finds her unexpected destiny