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Series
Graphic canon volume 5
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From James M. Cain to Stephen King, from Sophocles to the Marquis de Sade to Iceberg Slim, here are stunning and sometimes macabre visualizations of some of the greatest crime and mystery stories of all time. Rick Geary brings his crisp style to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; C. Frakes resurrects the forgotten novella "Talma Gordon," the first mystery written by an African American. Crime finds new life in these graphic renditions of The Arabian...
Series
Graphic canon volume 4
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature--from ancient times to the late twentieth century--as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up volume, young people's literature through the ages is given new life by the best comics artists and illustrators. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from...
3) Metamorphica
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of his bestselling debut novel The Lost Books of the Odyssey , Zachary Mason's Metamorphica transforms Ovid's epic poem of endless transformation. It reimagines the stories of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Galatea, Midas and Atalanta, and strings them together like the stars in constellations--even Ovid becomes a story. It's as though the ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino; Metamorphica is an archipelago in which...
4) Iron Man
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Read the complete adventures that turned Tony Stark into the hero Iron Man."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This illustrated volume features seven classic plays by William Shakespeare, retold by E. Nesbit. Shakespeare Retold contains a selection of Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies, including Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as a historical timeline, a list of suggested reading materials, and a short biography of the bard himself.
Author
Publisher
NYR Children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"How to introduce kids to Shakespeare--not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of his language and the depth of his characters. That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, a wonderful children's book writer, undertook to meet in his monumental and delightful Shakespeare Stories. Here are twenty-one of the Bard's plays, presented in what is not a series of dry retellings, but rather a refashioning of the dramas as stories, in a way...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Returning author Devoney Looser has written a study of Jane Austen's legacy in high and popular culture, looking at stage and film adaptations of her work, how Austen has been taught in classrooms, Austen's depiction in visual culture, and Austen's role in the women's suffragist movement. Looser draws on popular print and unpublished archival sources, amassing evidence from high, middlebrow, and popular culture, in order to craft a more capacious...
Series
Graphic canon volume 3
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Contemporary artists and illustrators reimagine great works of literature from around the world"--Back cover.
10) The graphic canon. Volume 2 : from "Kubla Khan" to the Brontë Sisters to The picture of Dorian Gray
Series
Graphic canon volume 2
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s, several artists present their versions of iconic literary figures, including interpretations of "Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Oliver Twist, Crime and Punishment," and more.
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