"Edward Gorey presents a curious event in two parts. All cats making merry... a butterfly cat (and another one) drifting aimlessly on a summer afternoon, a cat

Contains considerable information on prison reform efforts.

First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (

For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wou