Vol. 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists--including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly--present their versions of Poe's visions. We see two stunning but very different takes on the greatest American novel, Moby-Dick, including one by Eisner Award-winning artist Bill Sienkiewicz. That other great American novel, Huckleberry Finn, is adapted, uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism--Shelley, Keats and Byron--are visualized here, and so are the Bronte sisters. Philosophy and science are ably represented by ink versions of Nietzsche's T hus Spake Zarathustra and Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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