Gustave Doré

"London in the middle of the 1800s was a subject sketched endlessly by artists, studied by social reformers, and discussed by writers. This comprehensive collection of drawings by Gustave Dore, France's most celebrated graphic artist of the period, presents all 180 drawings from the artist's 1872 classic presentation, London, A Pilgrimage. A panoramic portrait of that engrossing city, the collection ranges from images of fashionable ladies riding...

"Once upon a midnight dreary..." This strikingly illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven will haunt and thrill readers new and old.--Publisher.

The classic poem about the lone survivor of a sea tragedy, one which he caused by murdering an albatross, and the redemption he sought afterward, told by the sailor over the backdrop of a lively wedding.

When a disaster at sea puts twelve-year-old Gustave in the hand of Death, he has the choice to give up the ghost or take on a series of six impossible tasks.

Eleven Perrault fairy tales including their rhymed morals.

"Dante's thrilling and panoramic view of Hell comes to startling new life in Clive James's translation of Inferno. Of the three sections of Dante 's Divine Comedy, the first section, Inferno, has always been the most popular. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno features Dante and his faithful guide Virgil as they traverse the complex geography of Hell and confront many hair-raising threats before reaching the deep chamber where Satan resides....