An intensely personal devotional book from Thomas Merton, the ultimate spiritual writer of our time, showing his contemplative and religious side through his prayers and rarely seen drawings. The only Merton gift book available. Dialogues with Silence contains a selection of prayers from throughout Merton's life from his journals, letters, poetry, books accompanied by all 100 of Merton's rarely seen, delightful Zen-like pen-and-ink drawings, and...

In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality. Sometimes, perhaps only for an instant, we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover,...

Although she is not very big, the Little Blue Engine agrees to try to pull a stranded train full of toys over the mountain. On board pages.

Milo, "who didn't know what to do with himself," goes through the Phantom Tollbooth to a strange land and a series of even stranger adventures in which Milo meets some of the most logically illogical characters.

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in Serbia), therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction,...

Born in 106 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero was the member of a well connected and well to do family. His cognomen, a personal surname, is derived from the Latin word for chickpea. It is suggested that this name may have been chosen as a result of his family's prosperity arising from the cultivation of chickpeas. His name suggests that despite being one the wealthiest men of his time he viewed himself he carried himself with humility. Educated in Latin...

In Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, Beatrix Potter's delightful original nursery rhymes are accompanied by the lifelike illustrations of animals that made books like The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Story of Miss Moppet so critically and commercially successful. The twentieth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes has delighted children and adults alike since its release...

When The Tailor of Gloucester sends his cat to buy some food and a twist of silk for a waistcoat, he discovers a secret-the cat has imprisoned mice under some teacups. After the tailor releases the mice, the cat hides the twist of silk in anger. But how can the tailor finish the waistcoat now? The third of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tailor of Gloucester was based on a true story, and was...

In The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, a frog who lives in a slippy-sloppy house alongside a pond, collects worms on a rainy day, and sets off on a lily-pad boat to go fishing. During this trip, he encounters all sorts of obstacles, including a large trout who tries to devour him. The eighth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher has delighted children since its release in 1906....