Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

The popular 19th-century humorist offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice steamboat pilot on one of the world's greatest rivers to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday.

'Dead Souls' is considered a seminal work in Russian literature, influencing subsequent generations of writers and thinkers. The novel's exploration of societal corruption and moral decay remains relevant to this day.

François Rabelais' 'The Third Book' is a classic work of Renaissance literature that continues the adventures of the larger-than-life protagonist, Gargantua.

Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 ...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.

I highly recommend this book to readers interested in American literature, history, and cultural identity, as it offers a fresh and entertaining perspective on the early days of New York.

An early surrealist work parodies a popular seventeenth century educational epic and explores the meaning of language

A study of the major fiction of Thomas Pynchon in three contexts: Menippean satire, post-modernism, and American writing.