The Graphic Canon, Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest

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The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading inRuss Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color "The Graphic Canon," volumes 1, 2, and 3.
Volume 3 brings to life the literature of the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, including aSherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a one-act play fromZora Neale Hurston, a disturbing meditation on "Naked Lunch," Rilke's soul-stirring "Letters to a Young Poet," Anais Nin's diaries, the visions of Black Elk, the heroin classic "The Man With the Golden Arm "(published fouryears before William Burroughs' "Junky"), and the postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Kathy Acker, Raymond Carver, and Donald Barthelme.
The towering works of modernism are here--T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The WasteLand," Yeats's "The Second Coming" done as a magazine spread, "Heart of Darkness," stories from Kafka, "The""Voyage Out "by Virginia Woolf, James Joyce's masterpiece, "Ulysses," and his short story "Araby" from"Dubliners," rare early work from Faulkner and Hemingway (by artists who have drawn for Marvel), and poemsby Gertrude Stein and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
You'll also find original comic versions of short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Flannery O'Connor, andSaki (manga style), plus adaptations of "Lolita "(and everyone said it couldn't be done ), "The Age of Innocence," "Siddhartha "and "Steppenwolf "by Hermann Hesse, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes, "One""Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Last Exit to Brooklyn," J.G. Ballard's "Crash," and photo-dioramas for "Animal""Farm "and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Feast your eyes on new full-page illustrations for "1984," "Brave New""World," "Waiting for Godot," "One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Bell Jar," "On the Road," "Lord of the Flies," "The""Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," and three Borges stories.
Robert Crumb's rarely seen adaptation of "Nausea "captures Sartre's existential dread. Dame Darcy illustratesCormac McCarthy's masterpiece, "Blood Meridian," universally considered one of the most brutal novels everwritten and long regarded as unfilmable by Hollywood. Tara Seibel, the only female artist involved with theHarvey Pekar Project, turns in an exquisite series of illustrations for "The Great Gatsby." And then there's themoment we've been waiting for: the first graphic adaptation from Kurt Vonnegut's masterwork, "Slaughterhouse-Five." Among many other gems."