Books with author William Henry Wills

The follow up to the Eisner-nominated collection of Wallace the Brave comics, featuring beautifully illustrated scenes of childhood imagination, friendship, outdoor exploration, and adventure. Think "Peanuts" if Charlie Brown were less of a mope or "Calvin & Hobbes" if Calvin weren't a bit of a psychopath. "Wallace The Brave" is about a family. There's Dad, a fisherman, Mom, a gardener, their almost feral young son Sterling, who never met a bug he wouldn't eat, and his older brother Wallace, a rambunctious, imaginative kid big on exploring. Mostly we see the world of the strip through Wallace's eyes, a sleepy East Coast beach town called Snug Harbor where the streets are lined with ice cream shops and the beaches are dotted with rocky tide pools ... The world of childhood depicted in the strip is a timeless, outdoorsy one reminiscent of strips like "Calvin & Hobbes" and "Cul De Sac," both of which Henry cites as influences. — NPR's Glen Weldon

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America."Americans have always stubbornly clung to the myth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of the individual average man. But here, at long last, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry III takes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentally ingrained ideas: that everyone is pretty much alike (and should be); that self-fulfillment is more imortant thant objective achievement; that everyone has something significant to contribute; that all cultures offer something equally worthwhile; that a truly just society would automatically produce equal success results across lines of race, class, and gender; and that the common man is almost always right. Henry makes clear, in a book full of vivid examples and unflinching opinions, that while these notions are seductively democratic they are also hopelessly wrong.

The Gift of the Magi is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), about a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony. It was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern on Irving Place in New York City.The story was initially published in The New York Sunday World under the title "Gifts of the Magi" on December 10, 1905. It was first published in book form in the O. Henry Anthology The Four Million in April 1906.

A beautiful hardback edition.TARKA THE OTTER is the classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes. The story's atmosphere and detail make it easy to see why Tarka has become one of the best-loved creatures in world literature.Henry William Williamson was born in 1895 in Brockley, south-east London. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the countryside, and he developed a deep love of nature throughout his childhood. He became a prolific author known for his natural and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literatrure in 1928 for Tarka the Otter.

From inside the book:THE object of this book is to place on record the facts I have gleaned, and the deductions I have drawn, from some twenty-five years of more or less constant observation of the grizzly bear. This is an animal much talked about, but little studied. It is now well on its way toward extinction. Our acquaintance with its life history is broken by many gaps and supplemented by many conjectures. Some of these gaps I believe myself able to fill; some of these conjectures I propose to examine and discuss. Before, therefore, venturing even tentatively to take the chair as a witness, I find it only right that I should, in so far as I am entitled to do so, qualify as an expert. This book published in 1909 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting. ContentsI. Autobiographical II. Early History — Lewis and Clark III. Followers of Lewis and Clark . IV. James Capen Adams V. The Scientific Classification of Bears PART II MY EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURES VI. My First Grizzly VII. Five in Five Shots VIII. Grizzly Gourmets IX. Trailing X. A Charging Grizzly XI. At Close Quarters XII. My First Trip to the Selkirks XIII. The Selkirks Revisited XIV. The Unexpected XV. A Spring Gun Avoided XVI. A Photographic Expedition XVII. Flashlighting Grizzlies PART III CHARACTER AND HABITS OF THE GRIZZLY XVIII. Description and Distribution XIX. Characteristics and Habits XX. Food and Feeding XXI. His Fierceness XXII. His Vitality XXIII. Fact versus Fiction XXIV. Conclusion