Oliver Herford: 16 books

"Wisdom may not be confined 'Twixt covers of the dictionary, neither will it be defined; learning, you may quickly bury; wisdom—Soul and Life combined combined— lingers ever with the merry." This Little Book of Wisdom Great it pleases us to dedicate to that Rampageous Reprobate— the...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download The history of the alphabet starts in ancient Egypt. The first pure alphabets (properly, "abjads", mapping single symbols to single phonemes, but not necessarily each phoneme to a symbol)...