{"product_id":"the-graphic-canon-vol-2-from-kubla-khan-to-the-bronte-sisters-to-the-picture-of-dorian-gray","title":"The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From Kubla Khan to the Bronte Sisters to the Picture of Dorian Gray","description":"\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"Default Title","offer_id":62085201297778,"sku":"BS-R4W-803780","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2972\/2226\/files\/9781609803780-HD.jpg?v=1784510645","url":"https:\/\/www.novelpanel.com\/products\/the-graphic-canon-vol-2-from-kubla-khan-to-the-bronte-sisters-to-the-picture-of-dorian-gray","provider":"Novel Panel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}