Did you know that the Japanese language has a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there’s a Finnish word for the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to rest? Lost in Translation brings to life more than fifty words that don’t have direct English translations with charming illustrations of their tender, poignant, and humorous definition…
from the back cover: The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Al…
In every story in the Fast Fox, Slow Dog series, chickens in jeopardy are saved by Slow Dog from Fast Fox in a variety of hilarious ways.
Sebagai seorang pewaris dari English Romantic, Edgar Allan Poe (19 Januari 1809 – 7 Oktober 1849) adalah kekuatan sastra yang hebat melalui usahanya sendiri. Tak hanya seorang tokoh yang sangat penting dalam dunia sastra Amerika, dia juga seorang master kesusastraan yang diakui, baik yang ber-setting horor, misteri atau detektif. Tiga kisah dalam Tales of Terror and Detection, yaitu Naskah …