The Graphic Canon: The Definitive Anthology of the World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals

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Authors: Russ kick
Genres: Comic , Shoujo(G) , Shounen(B) , Anthology
Translated language: English
Summary:
THE GRAPHIC CANON (Seven Stories Press) is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages. Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we're treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race's greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey (in watercolors by Gareth Hinds), The Aeneid, Beowulf, and The Arabian Nights, plus later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (both by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast), Paradise Lost, and Le Morte D'Arthur. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adapted—the tragedy Medea by Euripides and Tania Schrag’s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes (the text of which is still censored in many textbooks). Also included is Robert Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery. Religious literature is well-covered and well-illustrated, with the Books of Daniel and Esther from the Old Testament, Rick Geary’s awe-inspiring new rendition of the Book of Revelation from the New Testament, the Tao te Ching, Rumi’s Sufi poetry, Hinduism’s Mahabharata, and the Mayan holy book Popol Vuh, illustrated by Roberta Gregory. The Eastern canon gets its due, with The Tale of Genji (the world’s first novel, done in full-page illustrations reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley), three poems from China’s golden age of literature lovingly drawn by pioneering underground comics artist Sharon Rudahl, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Japanese Noh play, and other works from Asia. Two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays (King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and two of his sonnets are here, as are Plato’s Symposium, Gulliver’s Travels, Candide, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Renaissance poetry of love and desire, and Don Quixote visualized by the legendary Will Eisner. Some unexpected twists in this volume include a Native American folktale, an Incan play, Sappho’s poetic fragments, bawdy essays by Benjamin Franklin, the love letters of Abelard and Heloise, and the decadent French classic Dangerous Liaisons, as illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Edited by Russ Kick, The Graphic Canon is an extraordinary collection that will continue with Volume 2: "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray in Summer 2012, and Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest in Fall 2012. A boxed set of all three volumes will also be published in Fall 2012.
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Chapter 128 : Chéri
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Chapter 127 : The Dreaming of the Bones
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Chapter 126 : Hands
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Chapter 125 : The Madman
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Chapter 124
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Chapter 123
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Chapter 122 : The Mowers
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Chapter 121
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Chapter 120
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Chapter 119 : The Voyage Out
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Chapter 118 : The Metamorphosis
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Chapter 117 : Araby
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Chapter 116
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Chapter 115 : If-
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Chapter 114 : Mother
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Chapter 113 : Reginald
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Chapter 112 : The New Accelerator
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Chapter 111 : The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Chapter 110 : The Interpretation of Dreams
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Chapter 109
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Chapter 108 : Heart of Darkness
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Chapter 107 : The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Chapter 106
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Chapter 105
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Chapter 104 : Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Chapter 103 : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Chapter 102 : Anna Karenina
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Chapter 101 : The Hunting of the Snark
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Chapter 100 : Middlemarch
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Chapter 99 : The Drunken Boat
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Chapter 98 : Venus in Furs
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Chapter 97 : Venus in Furs
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Chapter 96 : Crime and Punishment
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Chapter 95 : Alice Gallery
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Chapter 94 : Jabberwocky
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Chapter 93
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Chapter 92 : Letter to George Sand
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Chapter 91 : I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
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Chapter 90 : Because I Could Not Stop for Death
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Chapter 89 : Les Misérables
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Chapter 88 : The Message from Mount Misery
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Chapter 87 : On the Origin of Species
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Chapter 86 : The Hasheesh Eater
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Chapter 85 : Leaves of Grass
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Chapter 84 : Leaves of Grass
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Chapter 83 : Walden
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Chapter 82 : Moby-Dick
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Chapter 81 : The Scarlet Letter
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Chapter 80 : Wuthering Heights
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Chapter 79
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Chapter 78 : Jane Eyre
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Chapter 77 : Works
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Chapter 76 : The Raven
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Chapter 75 : Poe Montage
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Chapter 74 : Der Struwwelpeter
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Chapter 73 : The Jumblies
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Chapter 72 : Oliver Twist
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Chapter 71 : Rondeau
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Chapter 70 : Fairy Tales
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Chapter 69 : The Mortal Immortal
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Chapter 68 : The Confessions of Nat Turner
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Chapter 67
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Chapter 66 : La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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Chapter 65 : How Six Made Good in the World
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Chapter 64 : Fairy Tales
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Chapter 63 : Frankenstein
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Chapter 62 : O Solitude
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Chapter 61 : I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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Chapter 60 : Ozymandias
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Chapter 59 : She Walks in Beauty
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Chapter 58 : Pride and Prejudice
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Chapter 57 : Auguries of Innocence
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Chapter 56 : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Chapter 55 : Kubla Khan
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Dangerous Liaisons
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Chapter 53
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Volume 2 Chapter 52
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Volume 1 Chapter 51
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Volume 1 Chapter 50 : Advice to a young man on the choice of a mistress
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Volume 1 Chapter 49 : A Modest Proposal
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Volume 1 Chapter 48 : Candide
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Volume 1 Chapter 47 : Gulliver's Travels
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Volume 1 Chapter 46 : Paradise Lost
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Volume 1 Chapter 45 : Forgive Us Our Trespasses
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Volume 1 Chapter 44 : To His Coy Mistress
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Volume 1 Chapter 43 : The Flea
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Volume 1 Chapter 42 : Sonnet 20
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Volume 1 Chapter 41 : Sonnet 18
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Volume 1 Chapter 40 : A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Volume 1 Chapter 39 : The Faerie Queene
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Volume 1 Chapter 38 : Journey to the West
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Volume 1 Chapter 37 : Hot Sun, Cool Fire
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Volume 1 Chapter 36 : The visions of St. Teresa of Avila
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Volume 1 Chapter 35 : Popol Vuh
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Volume 1 Chapter 34
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Volume 1 Chapter 33 : Outlaws of the Walter Margin
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Appu Ollantay
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Volume 1 Chapter 31
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Volume 1 Chapter 30 : The Canterbury Tales
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Volume 1 Chapter 29 : The Last Ballad
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Volume 1 Chapter 28
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Volume 1 Chapter 27 : The Inferno
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Volume 1 Chapter 26 : The Divine Comedy
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Volume 1 Chapter 25 : Poems
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Volume 1 Chapter 24 : The Woman with Two Coyntes
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Volume 1 Chapter 23 : "The Fisherman and the Genie"
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Volume 1 Chapter 22 : "O nobilissima viriditas"
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Volume 1 Chapter 21 : The Letters of Heloise and Abelard
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Volume 1 Chapter 20 : Strangers on a Train
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Volume 1 Chapter 19 : The Tale of Genji
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Volume 1 Chapter 18 : Beowulf
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Volume 1 Chapter 17 : Three Tang Poems
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Volume 1 Chapter 16 : The Book of Revelation
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Volume 1 Chapter 15 : Aeneid
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Volume 1 Chapter 14 : On the Nature of Things
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Volume 1 Chapter 13 : The Book of Daniel
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Analects and Other Writings
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Volume 1 Chapter 11 : Mahabharata
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Volume 1 Chapter 10 : Tao Te Ching
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Volume 1 Chapter 9 : Symposium
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Volume 1 Chapter 8 : The Book of Esther
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Volume 1 Chapter 7 : Lysistrata
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Volume 1 Chapter 6 : Medea
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Volume 1 Chapter 5 : Sappho poem fragments
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Volume 1 Chapter 4 : The Odyssey
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Volume 1 Chapter 3 : The Iliad
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Volume 1 Chapter 2 : Coyote and the Pebbles
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Volume 1 Chapter 1 : The Epic of Gilgamesh
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