The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest [Paperback]

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The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-colorThe 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 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 onNaked Lunch, Rilke's soul-stirringLetters to a Young Poet, Anaïs Nin's diaries, the visions of Black Elk, the heroin classicThe Man With the Golden Arm(published four years 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 Waste Land, Yeats's The Second Coming done as a magazine spread,Heart of Darkness, stories from Kafka,The Voyage Outby 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 poems by Gertrude Stein and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

You'll also find original comic versions of short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Flannery O'Connor, and Saki (manga style), plus adaptations ofLolita(and everyone said it couldn't be done!),The Age of Innocence, SiddharthaandSteppenwolfby Hermann Hesse, The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,Last Exit to Brooklyn, J.G. BalllC-