Charles M. Schulz

The New York Times bestselling series continues with the next instalment in this collection of every strip created by Charles M. Schulz. As the 1950s close down, Peanuts enters its golden age. Linus becomes downright eloquent and begins to fend off Lucy's bullying. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to "loserdom" with spectacularly lost kites and humiliating baseball games. Pig Pen, Violet, Patty and Schroeder are also around. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy, who is at the centre of the most action-packed episodes. Fittingly, Snoopy adorns the cover of this latest volume. And coming up in the next volume: a baby girl named Sally.

Jonathan Franzen, winner of the National Book Award and author of a New Yorker essay on Schulz, writes the introduction.

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