LANE No, sir it is not a very interesting subject. ALGERNON I don’t know that I am much interested in your family life, Lane. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. ALGERNON Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that? LANE I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. LANE I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. ALGERNON Why is it that at a bachelor’s establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed. by the way, Lane, I see from your book that on Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman and Mr.
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As well as being the creators of the Star Wars Epic Yarns board books, Jack is a professor of writing at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and Holman, a former middle school teacher, is an artist and author. Star Wars Epic Yarns: A New Hope (Chronicle 2015) $11.95 U.S. Jack and Holman Wang are twin brothers who grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Holman still lives. George Lucas has given his permission/blessing for the project. Jack Wang supposedly provides the pithy narration-as pithy as one-word per page-and Holman Wang has crafted the action figures. Their first volume features twelve iconic scenes: Princess Leia sends a hologram message via R2-D2 Luke Skywalker learns how to use a lightsabre, etc. Cuddle up with a classic In twelve needle-felted scenes and twelve child-friendly words, each book in this ingenious series captures the essence of a. Starting with Star Wars Epic Yarns: A New Hope (Chronicle 2015), their series will reduce the saga into board books. Jack Wang became a professor at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and Holman Wang, a former lawyer, was a middle school teacher in Vancouver before becoming a 'full-time felter.' As co-creators of the Cozy Classics board books, they subsequently teamed up for a re-telling of the Star Wars story for pre-school children. Jack and Holman Wang are needle-felting their way to a galaxy far, far away in their new series of board books, Epic Yarns. Jack and Holman Wang, as twin brothers who grew up in Vancouver, were big Stars Wars fans when they were little. Arcudi was educated at Columbia University. Arcudi has more than 300 titles to his name, some of the most prominent being Abe Sapien, B.P.R.D., The Creep, Dark Horse Presents, and Predator. John Arcudi is a comic book writer and creator from Buffalo, New York. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat. Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. 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