| Variant title |
Cover subtitle: World's great literature as comics and visuals |
| Contents |
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; illustrations by Matt Kish -- The awakening / Kate Chopin ; art/adaptation by Rebecca Migdal -- The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud ; art/adaptation by Tara Seibel -- The wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum ; photo-dioramas by Graham Rawle -- "The new accelerator" / H.G. Wells ; art/adaptation by Cole Johnson -- "Reginald" / Saki ; art/adaptation by Sonia Leong -- Mother / Maxim Gorky ; art/adaptation by Stephanie McMillan -- "IF--" / Rudyard Kipling ; art/adaptation by Frank Hansen -- John Barleycorn / Jack London ; art/adaptation by John Pierard -- "Araby" (from Dubliners) / James Joyce ; art/adaptation by Annie Mok -- "The metamorphosis" / Franz Kafka ; art/adaptation by R. Sikoryak -- The voyage out / Virginia Woolf ; art/adaptation by Caroline Picard -- "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" / T.S. Eliot ; art/adaptation by Anthony Ventura -- "The mowers" / D.H. Lawrence ; art/adaptation by Bishakh Som -- "Sea Iris" / H.D. ; art/adaptation by Bishakh Som -- "A matter of colour" / Ernest Hemingway ; art/adaptation by Dan Duncan -- The madman / Kahlil Gibran ; art/adaptation by Matt Wiegle -- "Hands" (from Winesburg, Ohio) / Sherwood Anderson ; art/adaptation by Ted Rall -- The dreaming of the bones / W.B. Yeats ; art/adaptation by Lauren Weinstein. |
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Cheri / Colette ; illustration by Molly Crabapple -- The age of innocence / Edith Wharton ; art/adaptation by C. Frakes -- "Dulce et decorum est" / Wilfred Owen ; adaptation by Jason Cobley, line work by John Blake, coloring by Michael Reid, lettering by Greg Powell -- "The second coming" / W.B. Yeats / art/adaptation by Anthony Ventura -- "The penitent" and "The singing-woman from the wood's edge" / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; art/adaptation by Joy Kolitsky -- "The top" and "Give it up!" / Franz Kafka ; art/adaptation by Peter Kuper -- "The Negro speak of rivers" / Langston Hughes ; art/adaptation by Jenny Tondera -- "Rain" / W. Somerset Maugham ; art/adaptation by Lance Tooks -- Ulysses / James Joyce ; art/adaptation by Robert Berry with Josh Levitas -- Ulysses / James Joyce ; art/adaptation by David Lasky -- "Living on $1,000 a year in Paris" / Ernest Hemingway ; art/adaptation by Steve Rolston -- "The emperor of ice-cream" / Wallace Stevens ; art/adaptation by Anthony Ventura -- "The hill" / William Faulkner ; art/adaptation by Kate Glasheen -- Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse ; art/adaptation by J. Ben Moss -- "The waste land" / T.S. Eliot ; art/adaptation by Chandra Free -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; illustrations by Tara Seibel -- Steppenwolf / Hermann Hesse ; illustrations by John Pierard -- Lady Chatterley's lover / D.H. Lawrence ; art/adaptation by Lisa Brown -- The sound and the fury / William Faulkner ; art/adaptation by Robert Goodin -- Letters to a young poet / Rainer Maria Rilke / design by James Uhler -- The maltese falcon / Daheill Hammett ; art/adaptation by T. Edward Bak. |
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Brave new world / Aldous Huxley ; illustrations by Carly Schmitt -- Poker! / Zora Neale Hurston ; art/adaptation by Milton Knight -- Black elk speaks / Black Elk and John G. Neihardt ; illustrations by Molly Kiely -- "Strange fruit" (a.k.a. "Bitter fruit") / Lewis Allan ; art/adaptation by John Linton Roberston -- Nausea / Jean-Paul Sartre ; art/adaptation by Robert Crumb -- The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck ; art/adaptation by Liesbeth De Stercke -- Three stories / Jorge Luis Borges ; illustrations by Kathryn Siveyer -- The stranger / Albert Camus ; adaptation by Juan Carlos Kreimer, art by Julian Aron, translation by Dan Simon -- Animal farm / George Orwell ; photo-dioramas by Laura Plansker -- "The heart of the park" / Flannery O'Connor ; art/adaptation by Jeremy Eaton -- Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell ; illustrations by Lesley Barnes -- The man with the golden arm / Nelson Algren ; art/adaptation by Jeremy Eaton -- "The voice of the hamster" / Thomas Pynchon ; art/adaptation by Brendan Leach -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett ; illustrations by Gustavo Rinaldi -- "The dancer"/ Gabriela Mistral ; illustration by Andrea Arroyo -- Lord of the flies / William Golding ; art/adaptation by Trevor Alixopulos -- The doors of perception / Aldous Huxley ; illustrations by John Pierard -- Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov ; art/adaptation by Sally Madden -- Four beats ; art and design by Tara Seibel -- On the road / Jack Kerouac ; illustration by Yeji Yun. |
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Naked lunch / William S. Burroughs ; art/adaptation by Emelie Ostergren -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey ; art/adaptation by PMurphy -- The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; illustration by Ellen Lindner -- Last exit to Brooklyn / Hubert Selby, Jr. ; art/adaptation by Juliacks -- Diaries / Anais Nin ; art/adaptation by Mardou -- The master and margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov ; art/adaptation by Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal -- One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; illustrations by Yien Yip -- In watermelon sugar / Richard Brautigan ; illustration by Juliacks -- Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon ; illustrations by Zak Smith -- Crash / J.G. Ballard ; art/adaptation by Onsmith -- "I bought a little city" / Donald Barthelme ; illustration by Andrice Arp -- "What we talk about when we talk about love" / Raymond Carver ; illustrations by Annie Mok -- Blood and guts in High School / Kathy Acker ; art/adaptation by Molly Kiely -- Blood meridian / Cormac McCarthy ; illustrations by Dame Darcy -- Foucault's pendulum / Umberto Eco ; art/adaptation by Julia Gfrorer -- Wild at heart / Barry Gifford ; art/adaptation by Rick Trembles -- The famished road / Ben Okri ; art/adaptation by Aidan Koch -- Einstein's dreams / Alan Lightman ; art/adaptation by Rey Ortega -- The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; illustration by Rey Ortega -- Infinite jest / David Foster Wallace ; illustrations by Benjamin Birdie. |
| Abstract |
"Contemporary artists and illustrators reimagine great works of literature from around the world"--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Graphic novels. |
| Genre/form | Comic books, strips, etc. |
| Genre/form | Graphic books. |
| Genre/form | Adaptations. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Graphic novels. |
| LCCN | 2012049460 |
| ISBN | 9781609803803 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1609803809 (pbk.) |
