Volume 1: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. We're treated to eye-popping renditions of literature's great-est epics-- The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Od-yssey (in watercolors by Gareth Hinds), The Aeneid, Beowulf, and The Arabian Nights, plus later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (both by Seymour Chwast) and Paradise Lost --as well as two of ancient Greece's greatest plays, Euripides' tragedy Medea and Aristophanes' bawdy comedy Lysistrata. Also included is Robert Crumb's rarely seen adapta-tion of James Boswell's London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery.
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