The enchanting tale of a magical pot and what happens when it is stolen specially retold for younger children, with humorous illustrations by Mike and Carl Gordon.
Five Best Humorous Stories/ Марк Твен. Лучшие юмористические рассказы
This set of books and audio CD includes five favorite comic stories of Mark Twain. Readers are encouraged not adapted texts of short stories in English and a parallel translation into Russian. On an audio CD recorded by native speakers original texts of short stories. You can also listen to the stories and in Russian in the classical translation and compare the English and Russian versions. Reading and listening texts in their original language, comparing them with translation into Russian, you can appreciate the skill of the writer and at the same time improve their skills in reading, listening, and foreign language translation.
A sturdy board book edition of the classic favorite finds six lovable animals using humorous rhymes to help Lloyd the llama discover what kind of animal his mother is.
The aim of this Treasury is not that of presenting extracts illustrating the development of humorous poetry in the English language. If that were its purpose, the anthology might have greater value for historical students of literature, but for the average reader it would prove of necessity uninteresting...
A revolutionary of visual culture, Seymour Chwast is one of the most influential illustrators of the last half century. In his version of "Dante's Divine Comedy", Dante and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through noirish realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in this classic satire of human foibles. Humorous, ironic, political, and utterly unique, this "Divine Comedy" is a comics masterpiece.
