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Classics - SelfMadeHero (17 book series)

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by Sophie Rickard (Author) , Edgar Allan Poe (Author) , Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) and 20 more

Graphic novelists reimagine the classics, from Tristram Shandy to Pride and Prejudice

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Sophie Rickard (Author) , Scarlett Rickard (Artist)

4.8 387 4.5 on Goodreads 226 ratings

$17.94

Robert Tressell's groundbreaking socialist novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-prophet Frank Owen who attempts to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the poverty all around them. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system, and support for a socialist society in which work is performed to satisfy the needs of all, rather than to generate profit for a few, eventually rouses his fellow men from their political passivity. Described by George Orwell as a piece of social history and a book that everyone should read, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is often cited as 'one of the most authentic novels of English working class life ever written'. In this faithful graphic adaptation, creators Scarlett and Sophie Rickard craft a compelling fiction that paints a comprehensive picture of social, political, economic and cultural life in early 20th Century Britain that is still acutely relevant today.

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Nevermore (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Edgar Allan Poe (Author) and 2 more

1.0 1 3.6 on Goodreads 627 ratings

$12.49

The works of Edgar Allan Poe have enthralled and terrified readers for over 150 years. Their macabre blend of doomed romanticism, gothic melodrama and ghoulish destiny earned him a place at the top of the list of fiction's greatest authors. Famous for his poems and short stories, Poe, who was born in Boston in 1809, virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. Nevermore showcases Poe's most memorable stories, from the 'The Tell-Tale Heart' to 'The Murders in The Rue Morgue'. Here Poe's fiction is re-imagined and revived in a vibrant graphic novel anthology, where the cream of modern comics creators are let loose in the playground of Poe's limitless imagination.

A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel Vol. 1: A Study in Scarlet (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) and 2 more

4.5 32 4.1 on Goodreads 2,661 ratings

$12.35

"There's the scarlet thread of murder… and our duty is to unravel it!" A man's body is found in a bloodstained room – without a scratch on it. A name has been partly written in blood on the wall. A woman's wedding ring is found... The sensational story Sherlock Holmes traces, from a dingy London tenement to the plains of the American Wild West, provides a test case in his 'science of deduction' – but the greatest enigma to his new friend, Dr. Watson, is Sherlock Holmes himself. This atmospheric graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and I.N.J. Culbard – the team behind this series' acclaimed The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of the Four and The Valley of Fear – will keep you guessing.

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Pride and Prejudice (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Jane Austen (Author) and 3 more

4.6 20 4.1 on Goodreads 1,523 ratings

$12.59

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Jane Austen referred to Pride and Prejudice (1813), the earliest-written of her published novels, as her "darling Child" – and generations of readers have taken it to their heart ever since. The irresistible attraction she portrays between the sparky, independent Elizabeth Bennet and the solemnly austere Mr. Darcy, counts among the greatest, most romantic – and funniest – love stories ever told.

A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel Vol. 2: The Sign of the Four (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) and 2 more

4.8 8

$8.84

"In God's name, what does it mean?" "It means murder..." When Miss Mary Morstan calls on 221B Baker Street, the 'utterly inexplicable' story she tells stirs the heart of Dr. John Watson – and rouses his friend Sherlock Holmes from his self-induced lethargy. For who else but London's only unofficial consulting detective could possibly solve the mystery of the disappearing Army officer, the one-legged man, his barefoot accomplice, the missing treasure chest, and... the 'sign of the four'? This atmospheric graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and I.N.J. Culbard – the team behind this series' acclaimed A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear – will keep you guessing.

The Castle (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Franz Kafka (Author) and 3 more

4.5 71 3.9 on Goodreads 64,397 ratings

$15.75

"Life in the Castle is not for me. I want to stay free." "You don't know the Castle." When a land surveyor, known only as 'K.', is summoned to the Village, he is forced to negotiate an obscure hierarchy – among assistants and messengers, chambermaids and landladies, masters and… mistresses. But how is he to receive his instructions from the Castle when no one knows what his employer looks like, telephones ring unanswered and there is anyway no land to survey? A piercing study in futility, Franz Kafka's final masterpiece ends – much like life itself – mid-sentence.

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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) and 2 more

3.9 3 3.6 on Goodreads 706 ratings

$12.43

"I realised I was leading a double life..." Robert Louis Stevenson liked to tell the story of how The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) came to him one night in a dream, while staying, for the sake of his health, in the provincial English seaside town of Bournemouth. He wrote the first draft in three days – then burned it when his wife suggested some changes. The second version was finished by the end of the week, and has scarcely been out of print since. The 'double life' that the book's hero (the respectable doctor Henry Jekyll) finds himself leading was something that Stevenson himself knew all about: the confined invalid who pioneered the art of travel writing; the clergyman's grandson who decadently slummed it in Edinburgh's fleshpots; the Scottish writer spuriously known by a French middle name... Well, we all have something to hide – though few of our secrets are as dreadful as Dr. Jekyll's. This dynamic graphic novel adaptation by Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal stays eerily faithful to the creeping chill of the London streets where Stevenson's story was originally set.

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A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel Vol. 3: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) and 2 more

4.5 7 4.1 on Goodreads 9,562 ratings

$12.35

"What is the meaning of it all, Holmes?" "It is murder, Watson…" A gnarled walking stick; a missing boot; a neglected family portrait; a convicted killer on the loose – and the ancestral curse of a phantom Hound… The great detective Sherlock Holmes needs all his powers of 'elementary' deduction – as well as the staunch support of his devoted friend Dr. Watson – to solve the terrifying mystery of his most famous case… This atmospheric graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and I.N.J. Culbard – the team behind this series' acclaimed A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four and The Valley of Fear – will keep you guessing.

Crime & Punishment (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) and 2 more

3.3 10 4.3 on Goodreads 925,677 ratings

$15.85

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is probably the most original murder mystery ever written. It is also one of the first. Set in the oppressive summer of a St Petersburg heatwave, this is the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who brutally murders a miserly old pawnbroker simply because he can. And so we enter the delirious mind and world of a killer – an intellectual misfit, alienated from his family and friends, cut off from a corrupt society "as if with scissors", and tormented by a "Great Idea" that turns into a cat-and-mouse nightmare with the police. Boldly and vividly updated by adaptor David Zane Mairowitz and artist Alain Korkos to a modern St Petersburg peopled by the grotesques of the 'Gas-Putin' generation, this upside-down whodunit traces the path of a man above suspicion who ends up informing on himself. But can he find redemption? When Robert Louis Stevenson finished reading Crime and Punishment, he said the experience was "like having an illness"; then he started writing a new story about a Scottish doctor called Jekyll…

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A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel Vol. 4: The Valley of Fear (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) and 2 more

4.6 20 3.9 on Goodreads 234 ratings

$12.50

"I have been in the Valley of Fear… I am not out of it yet." "There – is – danger!" The warning message decrypted by Sherlock Holmes arrives too late to save John Douglas of Birlstone Manor, Sussex, an American gentleman gruesomely murdered in his study by person or persons unknown. But who was John Douglas, why wasn't he wearing his wedding ring and what is the crucial significance of the missing dumb-bell? This atmospheric graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and I.N.J. Culbard – the team behind this series' acclaimed A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of the Four – will keep you guessing.

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The Communist Manifesto: A Graphic Novel (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Martin Rowson (Author) and 2 more

4.6 147 4.0 on Goodreads 593 ratings

$16.68

Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a powerful critique of capitalism and a radical call to arms. It remains the most incisive introduction to the ideas of Communism and the most lucid explanation of its aims. Much of what Marx and Engels proposed continues to be at the heart of political debate in the 21st century. It is no surprise, perhaps, that The Communist Manifesto (as it was later renamed) is the second bestselling book of all time, surpassed only by The Bible.

The Guardian's editorial cartoonist Martin Rowson employs his trademark draughtsmanship and wit in this lively graphic novel adaptation. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, The Communist Manifesto is both a timely reminder of the politics of hope and a thought-provoking guide to the most influential work of political theory ever published.

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The Trial: A Graphic Novel of Franz Kafka's Classic (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Franz Kafka (Author) and 2 more

3.9 12 4.0 on Goodreads 336,202 ratings

$12.58

"In the end, the only thing is to accept the way things are. Above all, don't call attention to yourself! Keep your mouth shut, however much this goes against your grain! Understand that this great legal system is in a state of delicate balance." The Trial, reinvented in this striking graphic novel, is the bleak tale of Joseph K – arrested one morning for unexplained reasons – struggling against a bewildering judicial process. K finds himself thrown from one disorientating encounter to the next, becoming increasingly desperate to prove his innocence in the face of unknown charges. In its stark portrait of an authoritarian bureaucracy trampling over the lives of its estranged citizens, The Trial is as relevant today as it has ever been.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Oscar Wilde (Author) and 2 more

4.7 4 4.2 on Goodreads 58,161 ratings

$12.48

"Beauty is a form of genius – is higher than genius, as it needs no explanation… It makes princes of those who have it. Beauty is the wonder of wonders. Only shallow people do not judge by appearances." Oscar Wilde's classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, reinvented in this striking graphic novel, is the story of a man who, exhilarated by his own beauty, pledges his very soul in a desperate bid for eternal youth. His wish is magically granted: a portrait of Dorian, painted by his friend Basil, begins to age in his place. Dorian's naïveté soon turns into narcissism and a dangerous sense of invulnerability. Influenced by the decadent aristocrat Lord Henry, he embarks upon a career of selfish hedonism and depravity, ruining several lives on the way. With great skill and artistic flair, Ian Edginton and artist I.N.J. Culbard bring Oscar Wilde's morally ambiguous take on the Gothic thriller to the graphic novel form.

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The Master and Margarita (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) and 2 more

3.7 29 3.6 on Goodreads 892 ratings

$15.87

The Master and Margarita, beautifully painted in this stunning graphic novel, follows the Devil and his retinue as they systematically wreak havoc in Moscow. Caught up in the chaos are two lovers: the Master, a writer broken by criticisms of his novel about Pontius Pilate, and Margarita, for whom the Devil has his own plans. Initially banned by the very bureaucracy it criticised, Bulgakov's satirical novel comes to life in this new adaptation. Mixing absurdity and erudition, it depicts fantastical events with a macabre humour, contrasting mischief and murder with humility and love.

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The Man Who Laughs (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Victor Hugo (Author) and 3 more

4.6 39 4.0 on Goodreads 423 ratings

$17.86

London, 1705. As a surrogate family of strolling players enact their nightly performance of Chaos Vanquished, a message in a bottle, washed up after years at sea, threatens to bring chaos once again to each of their lives. To the aging quack in charge of the troupe; to its blind and beautiful leading lady; and to Gwynplaine, the virtuous young actor whose inner nobility is masked by the mutilated face by which a grotesque, perverse and corrupt society defines him: "The Man Who Laughs". In David Hine and Mark Stafford's adaptation, Victor Hugo's impassioned, outrageous and bizarre 19th-century novel – the inspiration behind The Joker in Batman – has found an ideal new form.

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Heart of Darkness (Graphic Novel) (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Joseph Conrad (Author) and 2 more

4.6 36 3.2 on Goodreads 288 ratings

$13.86

In this deeply atmospheric rendering of Conrad's classic, we join colonial trader Marlow as he recounts his journey into the heart of Africa. Artist Anyango uses intricate pencil drawings that disintegrate to abstraction as Marlow travels further towards the dying Kurtz and the heart of darkness... Interspersed with excerpts from Conrad's The Congo Diary, Mairowitz and Anyango create a powerful vision of Conrad's finest and most enduring novella. Famously, it was Conrad's prophetic take on imperialism that inspired Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now.

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The Complete Don Quixote (Classics - SelfMadeHero)

by Miguel de Cervantes (Author) and 2 more

5.0 10 3.9 on Goodreads 276,811 ratings

$17.59

"Those giants over there... they're waving at us!" "You're mistaken, señor, they are windmills…" More than 400 years ago, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) sent his irrepressible optimist of a hero out to tilt at windmills – and Don Quixote and his philosophical squire, Sancho Panza, still remain among the world's most popular and entertaining figures, as well as the archetypes for the tall, thin straight man and his short, stocky comic sidekick. In this terrific adaptation of the Cervantes classic, Rob Davis uses innovative paneling and a lively colour palette to bring the Knight-Errant to life. This is sequential storytelling and art at its finest, as we follow Don Quixote on his search for adventure and chivalrous quests – and he will not be defeated by such foes as logic, propriety or sanity.

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Item 27 in list of 32. Series Detective Comics (1937-2011). . .

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Ian Edginton

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Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

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Franz Kafka (Praga, Imperio austrohúngaro, 3 de julio de 1883 - Kierling, Austria, 3 de junio de 1924) fue un escritor de origen judío nacido en Bohemia que escribió en alemán. Su obra está considerada una de las más influyentes de la literatura universal y está llena de temas y arquetipos sobre la alienación, la brutalidad física y psicológica, los conflictos entre padres e hijos, personajes en aventuras terroríficas, laberintos de burocracia, y transformaciones místicas.

Fue autor de tres novelas, El proceso (Der Prozeß), El castillo (Das Schloß) y El desaparecido (Amerika o Der Verschollene), la novela corta La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung) y un gran número de relatos cortos. Además, dejó una abundante correspondencia y escritos autobiográficos. Su peculiar estilo literario ha sido comúnmente asociado con la filosofía artística del existencialismo --al que influenció-- y el expresionismo. Estudiosos de Kafka discuten sobre cómo interpretar al autor, algunos hablan de la posible influencia de alguna ideología política antiburocrática, de una religiosidad mística o de una reivindicación de su minoría etnocultural, mientras otros se fijan en el contenido psicológico de sus obras. Sus relaciones personales también tuvieron gran impacto en su escritura, particularmente su padre (Carta al padre), su prometida Felice Bauer (Cartas a Felice) y su hermana (Cartas a Ottla).

El término kafkiano se usa en el idioma español para describir situaciones surrealistas como las que se encuentran en sus libros y tiene sus equivalentes en otros idiomas. Solo unas pocas de sus obras fueron publicadas durante su vida. La mayor parte, incluyendo trabajos incompletos, fueron publicados por su amigo Max Brod, quien ignoró los deseos del autor de que los manuscritos fueran destruidos.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Biography

Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakov (/bʊlˈɡɑːkəf/; Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, pronounced [mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf]; May 15 [O.S. May 3] 1891 – March 10, 1940) was a Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

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