Project Gutenberg 2004-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 115 Anonymous Anonyme Anonymous, Anonymous The World Turned Upside Down Or, No News, and Strange News Reading ease score: 85.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "The World Turned Upside Down" by Anonymous is a whimsical collection of verses likely composed during the early 19th century. This book is characterized by its playful and satirical tone, using humorous illustrations and verses to present a world where the ordinary is turned on its head. The overarching theme explores the absurdity of everyday life and the curious inversions of roles and activities in a light-hearted manner. The text outlines a series of charming poems that juxtapose common observations with bizarre and imaginative scenarios. Each verse begins with a familiar action, only to be followed by a shocking or absurd twist that challenges typical expectations, such as a hare chasing a dog or a bird shooting a man. This playful inversion serves to both entertain and provoke thought, as readers are invited to partake in a fantastically whimsical view of a world where everything is topsy-turvy. Various characters, from animals to human figures, populate these vignettes, reinforcing the sense of absurdity and highlighting the joy of imagination in storytelling. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Children's poetry Picture books for children PZ Text Children's Picture Books Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Poetry 42856 40829 2024-10-05T07:33:35.078967 2023-10-05T07:47:26.599912 text/html text/html 36659 2004-02-06T21:08:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 294833 2004-02-06T21:08:56 text/html application/zip 367689 2024-10-05T07:33:41.502931 application/epub+zip 366344 2024-10-05T07:33:38.599951 application/epub+zip 70208 2024-10-05T07:33:37.002963 application/epub+zip 1978298 2024-10-05T07:33:43.320183 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1967290 2024-10-05T07:33:40.412970 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 176767 2022-09-05T11:00:29.311422 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 29088 29035 2024-10-05T07:33:34.646016 2023-10-05T07:47:26.323906 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 30418 2004-02-06T21:04:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 10486 2004-02-06T21:08:54 text/plain application/zip 19715 2024-10-05T07:33:43.444932 application/rdf+xml 16143 2024-10-05T07:33:37.547968 image/jpeg 4032 2024-10-05T07:33:37.274945 image/jpeg 367345 2024-10-05T07:33:35.147995 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia More titles under Unknown