{"product_id":"the-graphic-canon-volume-3-from-heart-of-darkness-to-hemingway-to-infinite-jest-9781609803803","title":"The Graphic Canon, Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest","description":"\u003cb\u003eNOW A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \"Best Summer Books of 2013\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast's \"\u003c\/i\u003eBrainy Summer Beach Reads\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color \u003ci\u003eThe Graphic Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, volumes 1, 2, and 3. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 3 brings to life the literature of the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a one-act play from Zora Neale Hurston, a disturbing meditation on \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e, Rilke's soul-stirring \u003ci\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, Anaïs Nin's diaries, the visions of Black Elk, the heroin classic \u003ci\u003eThe Man With the Golden Arm \u003c\/i\u003e(published four years before William Burroughs' \u003ci\u003eJunky\u003c\/i\u003e), and the postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Kathy Acker, Raymond Carver, and Donald Barthelme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe towering works of modernism are here--T.S. Eliot's \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\" and \"The Waste Land,\" Yeats's \"The Second Coming\" done as a magazine spread, \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, stories from Kafka, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVoyage Out \u003c\/i\u003eby Virginia Woolf, James Joyce's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, and his short story \"Araby\" from \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e, rare early work from Faulkner and Hemingway (by artists who have drawn for Marvel), and poems by Gertrude Stein and Edna St. Vincent Millay. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou'll also find original comic versions of short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Flannery O'Connor, and Saki (manga style), plus adaptations of \u003ci\u003eLolita \u003c\/i\u003e(and everyone said it couldn't be done!), \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSiddhartha \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSteppenwolf \u003c\/i\u003eby Hermann Hesse, \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" by Langston Hughes, \u003ci\u003eOne\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Exit to Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, J.G. Ballard's \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e, and photo-dioramas for \u003ci\u003eAnimal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFarm \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e. Feast your eyes on new full-page illustrations for \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrave New\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude, The Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and three Borges stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Crumb's rarely seen adaptation of \u003ci\u003eNausea \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures Sartre's existential dread. Dame Darcy illustrates Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e, universally considered one of the most brutal novels ever written and long regarded as unfilmable by Hollywood. Tara Seibel, the only female artist involved with the Harvey Pekar Project, turns in an exquisite series of illustrations for \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e. And then there's the moment we've been waiting for: the first graphic adaptation from Kurt Vonnegut's masterwork, \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse-Five\u003c\/i\u003e. 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