This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.

Poor Richard's Almanack is one of Benjamin Franklin's most charming creations. He delighted in cloaking his writing behind a variety of literary personas, and Richard Saunders remains one of his most beloved, although some critics have complained that Poor Richard reveals the shallow materialism at the heart of Franklin's homespun philosophy

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"Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, which won him the Pulitzer Prize …which Lewis declined. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools...

A Guest At The Ludlow, And Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Bill Nye, an American humorist, and journalist. The book features a variety of comedic stories, including "A Guest At The Ludlow," which tells the story of a man's experience at a run-down hotel, and "The Tramp And The Baby," which follows a tramp's encounter with a baby left in his care. Other stories in the collection include "The Suburbanite's Lament," "A Man's Tired Wife,"...

"Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron collects all of Schulz's beloved strips starring Snoopy as the famous World War I flying ace in his perennial battles with the infamous Red Baron of Germany. Including both dailies and Sundays, Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron follows the valiant and indefatigable Snoopy as, time after time in his doghouse/Sopwith Camel, he braves the wrath of his unseen aerial foe. The brave little beagle's epic battles are brought to thrilling...