When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing a guest--a group of visionary detectives search the most magical reaches of reason for the solution...
This is the first U.S. publication of two riotous novels by the Polish-born British writer Stefan Themerson (1910-1988), who with his wife Franciszka ran the Gaberbocchus Press in London. Gaberbocchus published both Kurt Schwitters and Bertrand Russe...
Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an e...
The Table That Ran Away to the Woods tells the story of a writing desk that one day ?grabbed two pairs of shoes / ran downstairs, and took flight,? escaping into the countryside with its owners in barefoot pursuit. This is the first time the tale?...