Plotted : : a Literary Atlas
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The voyage of Odysseus (from the Odyssey / by Homer) -- Elsinore (from The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / by William Shakespeare) -- No man is an island (from Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe) -- The course of true love (from Pride and prejudice / by Jane Austen) -- Ebenezer Scrooge: time traveler (from A Christmas Carol / by Charles Dickens) -- Up from slavery (from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / by Frederick Douglass) -- The Pequod and its quarry (from Moby Dick, or, The whale / by Herman Melville) -- Route zero (from "A narrow fellow in the grass" / by Emily Dickinson) -- Phileas Fogg's incredibly credible circumnavigation (from Around the world in eighty days / by Jules Verne) -- Huckleberry Finn's Mississippi River journey (from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain) -- An education (from "A report to an academy" / by Franz Kafka) -- Infinite intelligence (from "The library of Babel" / by Jorge Luis Borges) -- Converging paths (from "The Lottery" / by Shirley Jackson) -- Journey to nowhere (from Invisible man / by Ralph Ellison) -- The waiting room (from Waiting for Godot / by Samuel Beckett) -- Flannery O'Connor's family vacation (friom "A good man is hard to find" / by Flannery O'Connor) -- The wrinkled time continuum (from A wrinkle in time / by Madeleine L'Engle) -- The warrens (from Watership Down / by Richard Adams) -- Those who leave and those who stay (from "The ones who walk away from Omelas" / by Ursula K. Le Guin).
"This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps -- all inspired by literary classics -- offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, Lord of the Flies, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, The Handmaid's Tale, and more. Sure to reignite a love for old favorites and spark fresh interest in more recent works as well, Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the human imagination" -- provided by publisher.
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Clever and so well illustrated submitted by doctorfang on August 2, 2016, 8:26pm This book is for book lovers. The detailed illustrations are rich with hidden creatures and symbols from classic books (see the list in the book details above). Really a wonderful piece of work.
PUBLISHED
San Francisco, CA : Pulp, an imprint of Zest Books, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 126 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781936976867
1936976862
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Harmon, Daniel,
SUBJECTS
Geographical myths in literature.
Imaginary places.
Literary landmarks.
Pictorial maps.