"Petrus Lelechenko lives in a modest hut on the outskirts of a village near the forest. The guy has sidekick, but not a simple one. Little Lelechenko, like his father, is a khimorodnik. Once before the holiday, Kupala Petrus fell into an incredible adventure: he found a magical cluster of ferns and saved the world and life itself. He also found that outside the usual[perception of] human beings is the land of invisible spirits and mysterious creatures....

"Classic country songs and their inside stories by the people who wrote them"--from jacket cover.

"Ninety-one writers with connections to these islands grapple with the biggest issue facing people and the planet." --

"American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years, when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical music audiences. With her light lyric voice, her musical intuition, and her fearless dedication to new music, Beardslee became the go-to girl for twelve-tone music in New York City. She was the first American singer to build a repertoire performing the...

This volume of primary source documents focuses on some of the leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries: immigration and multiculturalism. It contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters...

An irresistible gathering of shorts by some of the world's most imaginative word artists. Short spans genres, languages, and centuries, to offer the tradition - and glorious present - of this popular form.