"Ni chreidfeadh duine ar bith i mblianta deiridh an naou cead deag go raibh suil ghear ghrinn ar imeachtai an domhain seo ag neacha ar mho a n intleacht na intleacht an duine, ach da ainneoin sin, a bhi chomh basmhar linn fein... Ach, thar dhuibheagan an spais, bhi ag breathnu anuas orainn go santach creatuir a raibh an oiread difriochta idir a meabhair agus ar meabhairne agus ata idir meabhair an duine agus meabhair an ainmhi, creatuir a raibh intleacht abhalmhor fhuar chrua acu, agus bhi siad ag beartu seifteanna go mall lenar mbascadh." Foilsiodh "Cogadh na Reann" den chead uair in 1898...

Yth esa lorgh poos in y dhorn, esa ev ow trufla ganso; saw ger vëth ny worthebys ev, saw yth hevelly ev bos ow coslowes gans perthyans cot. Hag ena, adhesempys, ev a dardhas gans flam uthyk sorr, in udn stankya y droos, ow swaysya y lorgh hag owth omdhon (dell wrug an vowes y dherivas) kepar ha muscok. An den jentyl coth a gemeras udn stap war dhelergh, hag yth esa owth omdhysqwedhes fest sowthenys ha ha nebes offendys inwedh. Gans hedna Mester Hyde a dorras pub finweth hay fusta dhen dor. An nessa mynysen, yth esa ev kepar hag appa engrys ow trettya y vyctym in dadn droos, hag ow lowsya...

A series of illustrated epigrams drawn on post-it notes. With economy and wit, the author touches on matters absurd, philosophical, moral, psychological, and political. His terse, arresting visual aphorisms register, alternately, as micro-essays, a text book of wisecracks or, more broadly, exercises in seeing and thinking, differently.

Lewis Carroll est un nom de plume: l'auteur s'appelait en realite Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, et donnait des cours de mathematiques a Christ Church, Oxford. L'histoire a pris naissance dans lecerveau de Dodgson le 4 juillet 1862, sur la Tamise a Oxford, au cours d'un voyage en barque avec lepasteur Robinson Duckworth, Alice Liddell (dix ans), la fille du doyen de Christ Church, et ses deux s urs, Lorina (treize ans), et Edith (huit ans). Comme indique dans le poeme servant d'introduction au livre, les troisdemoiselles prierent Dodgson de leur raconter une histoire, et il leur en conta, a...

Evertype presents Lafcadio Hearns classic tales of ghosts, spirits, and the darker side of the natural world with 20 new linotypes by Mathew Staunton.
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"A legend in Ireland and in Japan where his descendants thrive to this day, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was himself drawn to legends, his imagination ignited initially by tales of the Celtic Otherworld and later fuelled by stories of Voodoo magic in Louisiana, an imagination that had its full flowering in far-away Japan where his restless spirit found peace. If you have any few hairs at all on your head, these venerable tales will have...

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own... Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us." First published in 1898, "The War of the Worlds" is considered to be the first "alien invasion" tales, and has been one of the most influential science fiction...

Cinq histoires inspirees par l'auteur americain H. P. Lovecraft, createur et maitre reconnu des histoires d'Horreur Cosmique. --- "Cuitiliu" Les Grands Anciens auraient-ils parcouru l'Irlande ? Ont-ils ete impliques dans les evenements de Devil's Cliff ? Les reponses se trouvent peut etre dans les pages oubliees du journal d'Amhlaoibh O Suilleabhain. --- "L'Appel des Etoiles" Son pere lui a laisse un ensemble de mysterieux manuscrits irlandais, et quand Mairtin Mac Cuarta les a lus, il a senti les etoiles l'appeler. --- "Le Livre du Venin" Panu Hoglund, un etudiant finlandais, voulait...