"Mr. Pope had rigged up a reading light . . . and the horse read far into the night."

- From Ed Has His Mind Improved by Walter R. Brooks

A boon for booklovers, this set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.

Walter R. Brooks' Ed Has His Mind Improved

read by Tony Roberts

How Ed-a talking horse-became a voracious reader of adventure tales and hardboiled

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