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The Complete Maus Hardcover – November 19, 1996

by Art Spiegelman (Author, Illustrator)

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.

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“A loving documentary and brutal fable, a mix of compassion and stoicism [that] sums up the experience of the Holocaust with as much power and as little pretension as any other work I can think of.”
–The New Republic

“A quiet triumph, moving and simple–impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics.”
–The Washington Post

“Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics’ history: something that actually occurred…. The central relationship is not that of cat and mouse, but that of Art and Vladek. Maus is terrifying not for its brutality, but for its tenderness and guilt.”
–The New Yorker

“All too infrequently, a book comes along that’s as daring as it is acclaimed. Art Spiegelman’s Maus is just such a book.”
–Esquire

“An epic story told in tiny pictures.”
–The New York Times

“A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution… at one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir, and a comic book. Brilliant, just brilliant.”
–Jules Feffer

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It is the story of Vladek Speigelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.

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Hardcover: 295 pages
Publisher: Pantheon (November 19, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679406417
ISBN-13: 978-0679406419
Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (455 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels > Literary
- #8 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National > Jewish
- #12 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Biographies & History Graphic Novels

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Hardcover Includes Parts I and II

ByJay Beeon February 10, 2010

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

Browsing through the reviews and comments about Maus, I saw that there was some question as to whether the hardcover edition comprised Parts I and II. This is understandable because the product is listed in Amazon as "The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (No 1)," which seems contradictory.

When I was considering purchasing it, I looked at the number of pages that were listed for the edition and guessed that it included both parts of the story. So I bought it, it arrived fine, and I am now writing to confirm that yes, this edition includes I and II.

Amazon should look into this and remove the "(No 1)" from the listing's title.

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Graphic Novel Converted

ByKaili Kobylkaon November 17, 2016

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I am going to preface this review by saying that I have a general disdain for graphic novels. There was a time that I would never elect to read one of my own volition. That all changed when I was assigned Maus for an English class. Upon hearing that our syllabus included a graphic novel, I groaned in tacit protest. I read both volumes of Maus cover to cover before the assigned completion date, and was very moved by the story, which is about a son trying to understand his Holocaust-survivor father. There are no images of humans in this book--the Jews are portrayed as mice, the Nazis as cats, and the Poles as pigs. The protagonist has always felt a void between he and his father, but develops some understanding and compassion as he begins interviewing him about his experiences in the Holocaust. In terms of Holocaust literature, I would deem this a "must-read".

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A classic work of 20th century literature.

ByTomHunter1968TOP 1000 REVIEWERAUTHORon October 28, 2014

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I don't think I can add much that has not already been written in innumerable books, articles, journals, blogs, and anywhere that discusses literature and, specifically, graphic novels. This one may not appeal to the strictly comic book crowd seeking the Supermans, Avengers, etc., genre. This, of course, is nothing like those. This is a work of literature that (amazingly for a graphic novel) won the Pulitzer Prize. It's a must have for any serious graphic novel fan and I can recommend (and have recommended) it to my friends who aren't at all into comics, but are serious literature buffs. The social commentary and other aspects of this work must be read and seen to be appreciated, and I don't think my best efforts at providing an analysis here, in such a short space, would add anything of real value - I will leave that to the serious critics of literature and students of the graphic novel. What I can say is this: Maus left a permanent and valuable impression on me, even in the first reading many years ago. And it continues to do so today.

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A Splendid Novel!

ByCarol Bellon December 14, 2016

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Maus is a graphic novel - that is, a novel done in cartoons, written by the son of a Holocaust survivor. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. My husband and I had never read this book - never even known about it. It was quite a discovery! We bought the two book set, which proved to be a fine one. If I could afford to do so, I would send a free copy to every denier of the Holocaust. Amazon, please advertise this book more widely. There is an old and a new generation out there who need to read it!

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Good book: physically and literally

ByDave R.on March 24, 2017

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I like that this book is hardcover. Pages are nice and stiff. The story itself is great. Definitely would recomend this version because it combined maus I and II into one bound book. Note: this is a graphic novel--the drawings are well done.

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Maus

Bydannyfuentes94on March 21, 2013

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The Holocaust was the systematic mass murder of over six million Jewish human beings led by the Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party during World War II. At first glance you would be astonished at how it would be possible for someone to write a comic-like story on such an atrocity that has haunted and forever changed the lives of so many people since WWII. The very idea of Art Spiegelman writing such a thing offended me. That was of course until I read the book and realized how wrong my assumptions are. At the commence of the graphic novel Maus it is apparent that Art and his father, Vladek, do not carry a healthy relationship. The strain in the family plays a major role throughout the novel because of Art's little to none understanding of what his father has gone through and why he is the way that he is. Even though the main cause of the sour relationship between the two are due to the character that Vladek has retained from his time during WWII, there are times where you feel bad for Vladek because of Art's actions towards him. Unlike many other pieces of work depicting the Holocaust, Maus gives the reader a first-hand account of Vladek's experience and how he and his family managed to survive. The use of comics is definitely beneficial to the reader in this graphic novel. The images that go side by side with the text help us get a better understanding of what it is that is occurring during the explanation of Vladek's experiences. With the use of the images we are constantly reminded of the struggles that the Jews faced. In the initial pages of the novel, we are introduced to the idea of Jews being represented as mice while the Germans were depicted as cats as well as a couple of other groups of people being represented as other farm animals. We are often times presented with drawings of mice using masks which gave us a visual representation of the struggle of Jews trying to pass of as Polish individuals. The use of these metaphors in the drawings helps us achieve a better understanding of how people were seen at that time. We usually think of as cats superior to mice and that is exactly what the author wanted us to visualize when he portrayed human beings as different types of animals. One of the things that stood out to me most was how the author was able to have a balance throughout the novel that included not only what took place in his father's past but also what was occurring during the time of the novels writing. With Art doing this often during the novel we are able to visualize and understand how the decisions Vladek has made in the past for a family still have an impact on the decisions he makes in his everyday life.

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The artwork is wonderful and the author's story really helps me to understand

ByLux Danielson March 3, 2016

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I read parts of this book for school and I decided that I had to purchase it. The artwork is wonderful and the author's story really helps me to understand. There is one box that really hit home for me. It was when he wrote that the thought people need a bigger holocaust. I felt like I agreed, do we really need that to be able to understand the horrors that happened to all of those innocent people?

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