Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes first published in 1958, is now back in print. Ranging from the poignant to the comical to the surreal, these selections include writing by Aldous Huxley, Martin Gardn...
Like The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis is a fictionalized biography of a widely venerated Christian figure: Francis of Assisi, whose renunciation of his young man’s life of leisure and founding of a religious order dedicated to living in...
THE MANSION LOOKED AS PEACEFUL AS A DOVECOTE. BUT IT HOUSED ANGUISH, GREED--AND MURDER! When seventeen-year-old Katie Fielding won Alexander Hawks's heart, his entire family was certain the penniless beauty was a fortune hunter. The vast Hawks...
The novel that lets you be the detective! Can You solve the crime by finding the clues hidden in the cover painting, by uncovering the clues in four of the eight interior illustrations, and by following the clues in the story? 'Valerie's Last Run': W...