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Excerpt from Narrative of Henry Box Brown: Who Escaped From Slavery, Enclosed in a Box Three Feet Long, Two Wide, and Two and a Half High Did Lazarus astonish his weeping sisters, and the sur rounding multitude, as he emerged from his house of clay, clad in the habiliments of the grave, and did joy unfeigned spread throughout that gazing throng? How much more astonishing seemed the birth of Mr. Brown, as he came forth from a box, clothed not ...

Unavailable for years, this is the fascinating story of Box Brown who, in 1849, shipped himself in a wooden crate from Virginia to the Anti-Slavery Office in Philadelphia. 6 illustrations.

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It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly colored geometric shapes everywhere. You'll see them in your dreams.Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it...

A graphic novel history of the invention of the computer game Tetris, in Russia in 1984, and the bidding war which was sparked for its ownership during the Cold War. Follows the life of Tetris's inventor, Alexey Pajitnov. From the author of "Andre The Giant".

One of the best and most promising new comic artists out there today, Box Brown writes and draws the Everything Dies zine series as a hard (and oft-times hilarious) look into the religious myths of our world. Issue seven is a comic retelling of the pan-cultural "flood myth." Here we see Sumerian wind god Enlil (a total badass jerk a la an evil pro-wrestler) setting out to destroy the newly-created people of the Earth. The "Noah" of this polyth...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Memoir of escape from slavery by someone who hid inside a crate shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia. "Just as relevant now as it was 150 years ago." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Excerpt from Narrative of Henry Box Brown: Who Escaped From Slavery, Enclosed in a Box Three Feet Long, Two Wide, and Two and a Half High Did Lazarus astonish his weeping sisters, and the sur rounding multitude, as he emerged from his house of clay, clad in the habiliments of the grave, and did joy unfeigned spread throughout that gazing throng? How much more astonishing seemed the birth of Mr. Brown, as he came forth from a box, clothed not ...