Great Writers Of The English Language

The anthology "CRAZY OLD MAN" is designed to make you laugh, make you cry, and make you question why. This anthology is comprised of selected things written by this author over twenty-five years. In the book are the following genre: poetry, nonfiction, playwriting, and supposition essays. Examples of titles in the book by genre are: Poetry: "WINGED WARRIOR", "THE WHORE", "MR. GREENBURG", and "weeping willow why" (American Haiku), Fiction: The short-short story "DUI" (written in second person), Nonfiction: "POINTS of INTEREST- DEADMAN,S POINT-SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA" , "THE MOUNT LAGUANA / KITCHEN CREEK FIRE", AND "HOW TO SURVIVE A WRITER'S WORKSHOP". Playwriting: the play titled: "MIDNIGHT", Supposition essays: "BAKED-BEAN COLORED ROCK DECORATED WITH PETROGLYPHS", 'THE BALANCED SOLAR SYSTEM THOREM", and "PERALTA STONES FIND THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE".

Herman Charles Bosman s unique account of the term he served as a young man in Pretoria Central Prison. Convicted for the murder of his step-brother, and initially condemned to hang, he had his sentence commuted to be a regular convict through the 1920s and into the 1930s."

- The most comprehensive single-volume guide to writers and their works on the market - Compiled by an international team of literary critics, authors, teachers and journalists - Beautifully illustrated with portraits of writers and photo graphs of their work - The perfect companion to the acclaimed 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - Also available in the same series: 501 Great Artists (March 2009)

Carrington takes the reader on an exploration of English literary heritage by reading small, digestible sections which form an ordered programme. Meet all the major English writers - who they were, what they wrote, their finest work and its significance.

Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.