{"product_id":"9781609803780","title":"The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2","description":"By: Russ Kick   | Series: The Graphic Canon Series \u003chr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Graphic Canon, Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists—including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly—present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s visions. The great American novel\u003ci\u003e Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e is adapted uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism—Shelley, Keats, and Byron—are visualized here, and so are the Brontë sisters. We see both of Coleridge’s most famous poems: “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (the latter by British comics legend Hunt Emerson). Philosophy and science are ably represented by ink versions of Nietzsche’s\u003ci\u003eThus Spake Zarathustra\u003c\/i\u003e and Darwin’s \u003ci\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e (a hallucinatory take on the pivotal murder scene), Thoreau’s \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e (in spare line art by John Porcellino of King-Cat Comics fame), “The Drunken Boat” by Rimbaud, \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e by Whitman, and two of Emily Dickinson’s greatest poems are all present and accounted for. John Coulthart has created ten magnificent full-page collages that tell the story of \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e by Oscar Wilde. And \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e has never looked this splendiferous!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is a special treat for Lewis Carroll fans. Dame Darcy puts her unmistakable stamp on—what else?—the Alice books in a new 16-page tour-de-force, while a dozen other artists present their versions of the most famous characters and moments from Wonderland. There’s also a gorgeous silhouetted telling of “Jabberwocky,” and Mahendra’s Singh’s surrealistic take on “The Hunting of the Snark.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurveballs in this volume include fairy tales illustrated by the untameable S. Clay Wilson, a fiery speech from freed slave Frederick Douglass (rendered in stark black and white by Seth Tobocman), a letter on reincarnation from Flaubert, the Victorian erotic classic \u003ci\u003eVenus in Furs\u003c\/i\u003e, the drug classic\u003ci\u003e The Hasheesh Eater\u003c\/i\u003e, and silk-screened illustrations for the ghastly children’s classic \u003ci\u003eDer Struwwelpeter\u003c\/i\u003e. Among many other canonical works.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46764572377315,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781609803780","price":256.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781609803780.jpg?v=1751660232","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/9781609803780","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}