When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing a guest--a group of visionary detectives search the most magical reaches of reason for the solution

The Mystery of the Sardine

Literature & Fiction

THEMERSON, Stefan

British & Irish

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A Man of Letters, a child genius, two dancing ladies, the Minister of Imponderabilia, Captain Casanova, an English Dame - to say nothing off the black poodle or the sardine. Set in London and behind the Iron Curtain to Poland.

Contemporary

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Hobson's Islans

Faber&Faber

Factor T; followed by, Beliefs, tethered and untethered;: And, The pheromones of fear;

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Gaberbocchus Press

Describes the personal and professional life of Sylvester Stallone and depicts his struggle to achieve success as a film actor, writer, and director

Professor Mmaa's Lecture

Literary

Overlook Books

At times in his life, Tom Harris is a dull schoolboy, an apprentice barber, a delinquent husband, an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green Man Pub, "il professore Harris" at the University of Genoa, and possibly a murderer. But the question of who the elusive Tom Harris really is, and what crimes he has really committed, obsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris can perhaps be described as a sort of philosophical detective story, ingeniously plotted and wittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on par with the most playful works of Raymond Queneau.

Tom Harris (Lannan Selection)

World Literature

Dalkey Archive Press

Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for. But all is suddenly disrupted when a wave of unusual visitors arrive: a deposed African king fleeing a revolution, a Hobson descendant claiming ownership, government agents eyeing the nation-less real estate, and scientists looking to test a dangerous new invention. In typical Themerson fashion, the comic is wound up with the serious and let go to devastating effect. A clever and apt parodying of Cold War power plays and twisted science, Hobson's Island is a strangely touching, sympathetic, and emotional account of the families and individuals brought together and broken up by Hobson's Island.

Hobson's Island (British Literature)

When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing his guest--the "mystery of the sardine" begins. Its solution will involve such unwitting detectives as a twelve-year-old mathematician, his mother, his beloved, a palmist named Miss Prentice, and a bureaucrat dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia. The clues they unearth--drawing on logic, the occult, intuition, and everything in between--lead them far away from the tiny seaside town where they begin. We follow them to Majorca, Rome, Warsaw, and London, but in the end, the solution lies beyond even the furthest and most magical reaches of reason.

Critics & My Talking Dog: Selected Stories, Essays, Lectures & a Play

BLACK SCAT BOOKS

The Table That Ran Away to the Woods tells the story of a writing desk that one day “grabbed two pairs of shoes / ran downstairs, and took flight,” escaping into the countryside with its owners in barefoot pursuit. This is the first time the tale—first published in a Polish newspaper in 1940 and re-created in this exquisite collaged version in 1963—has been made available to an English-speaking audience. Praise for The Table that Ran Away to the Woods: "The story, an afterword explains, ties into the Themersons’ avantgarde filmmaking, writing, and artwork in the 1930s (an early version appeared in an expatriate newspaper published in Paris). Readers needn’t be familiar with the backstory to appreciate the collage-like images of the table scampering over hills and reclaiming its existence." —Publishers Weekly

The Table That Ran Away to the Woods

Children's Books

Tate

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The Mystery of the Sardine

The Mystery of the Sardine

Hobson's Islans

Factor T; followed by, Beliefs, tethered and untethered;: And, The pheromones of fear;

Professor Mmaa's Lecture

Tom Harris (Lannan Selection)

Hobson's Island (British Literature)

The Mystery of the Sardine

Critics & My Talking Dog: Selected Stories, Essays, Lectures & a Play

The Table That Ran Away to the Woods