The complete online text of The Absurd ABC by Walter Crane.

Walter Crane was a Victorian illustrator, designer, poet, teacher, Socialist, and painter whose advocacy of affordable colored picture books helped influence the look of nineteenth-century British children's literature. He was born on 15 August 1845 in L...

Absurd TONY BLAIR has called the idea of hereditary peers "absurd". It was "in principle wrong and absurd", he said last week, that people should wield power on the basis of birth rather than election or merit. Conservative intellectuals like Brian Mawhinney have...

Three new plays signify the return of the Theater of the Absurd to the American mainstream after a two-decade absence. They are Steven Dietz' 'Lonely Planet,' Nicky Silver's 'Pterodactyls' and David Ives' 'All in the Timing.' Written by playwrights who share the same view...