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This luxurious hardback edition presents John Milton's celebrated epic poem, Paradise Lost, with opulent gold cover embossing, striking illustrated page edges and classic illustrations by Gustave Doré.
John Milton's Paradise Lost is considered one of the greatest works in the English language, narrating the familiar Christian myth of the fall from grace. Influencing such writers as J. R. R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman, this epic poem explores the darker side of the human soul through the struggle for ascendancy between God and Satan.
This beautiful hardback edition is produced with faux-cloth binding, stamped lettering in gold foil and stunning printed edges. It also features 50 magnificent engravings by legendary French artist Gustave Doré. These visual details make this collector's edition a truly wonderful gift.
This beautiful hardback edition with stencilled page edges presents well known, dramatic and beautiful scenes from the Bible, illustrated by French artist and illustrator, Gustave Doré.
Containing over 180 of Gustave Doré's most arresting illustrations, Scenes from the Bible offers illuminating evocations of man's struggles - in battle, against disease, hardship, death and ultimately himself - and his redemption through love. The images have been carefully selected to afford the reader insights into the most famous or dramatic incidents in the Bible. Each image is accompanied by a short quote from the King James version of the holy book together with a vivid narrative to provide a context for each scene.
This luxury edition with gold-embossing, stencilled page edge, beautiful endpapers and magnificent illustrations serve to bring the Bible to life as never before.
This luxurious hardback edition presents Dante's celebrated work, The Divine Comedy, with opulent gold cover embossing, striking illustrated page edges and classic illustrations by Gustave Doré.
Dante's Divine Comedy is regarded as a masterpiece of medieval literature, telling the story of Dante's descent into hell, his journey through purgatory and eventual ascent into heaven, with Virgil as his guide. Along with stirring adventures and boundless imagination are Dante's reflections on spirituality and the nature of faith and reason in the world.
From the pilgrim's deepening insight into the workings of evil and moral choice (Hell) through to the dramatization of the nature and purpose of moral conversion (Purgatory) to the blissfully mystical ascent before God (Paradise), Dante's cosmic vision remains unparalleled.
This beautiful hardback edition, with gold foil accents and stunning printed edges, includes Henry W. Longfellow's classic translation, 135 magnificent, full-page illustrations by Gustave Doré and a brilliant introduction by Anna Amari-Parker, full of accessible analysis of Dante's allegorical tale.
A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet
Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of
salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly
Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, sin, damnation and
forgiveness through a series of unforgettable encounters. This
edition features Longfellow's renowned translation and
reproductions of Gustave Dore's classic engravings from the 1867
publication.
All 50 of Doré's powerful illustrations for Milton's epic poem, with quotes from the text and a plot summary of the entire poem.
Dante's masterpiece of literature is well matched by the peerless
art of Gustave Dore. Dante and his guides, Virgil and Beatrice,
journey through the cantos in an allegory of the passage of the
soul through the Afterlife, with the subtle engraving of Dore's
illustrations perfectly complementing the movement from darkness
through to light.
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The Divine Comedy (Hardcover)
Dante Alighieri; Illustrated by Gustave Dore
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"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost
thou so fall?" Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--the three fates
of the deceased become the three pillars of an epic poem. The
Divine Comedy, written by Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the
fourteenth century, is considered the foremost work in Italian
literature. The journey begins with Dante's descent into the depths
of Hell where he witnesses those eternally separated from God. Then
he climbs the mountain of Purgatory where Christian souls undergo
final purification, before finally touring the celestial circles of
Heaven where he is filled with the image of God. An allegorical
work, the comedy is representative of the soul's journey towards
God. Influential for seven centuries, this classic is a must have
for lovers of great literature, and the luxurious leather-bound
edition from Canterbury Classics will make a stunning addition to
any library.
Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve,
horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their
monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus and visions of
the new Jerusalem. Each of the 241 plates is accompanied by the
appropriate verses from the King James version of the Bible.
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London: A Pilgrimage (Paperback)
Blanchard Jerrold; Illustrated by Gustave Dore; Introduction by Peter Ackroyd
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'London: A Pilgrimage' is a forgotten classic of social
journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty striken,
gin-swilling London of the nineteenth century, written in a
perceptive, bold and gripping style.
fantastic and grotesque scenes depict the passion and grandeur of one of Dante's most highly regarded works--from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise. Includes plates produced for The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. Illustrations accompanied by appropriate lines from the Longfellow translation.
Comprising the finest plates from the great illustrator's work,
this collection features outstanding engravings from such literary
classics as Milton's "Paradise Lost," "The Divine Comedy" by Dante,
Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Raven "by Edgar
Allan Poe, Sue's "The Wandering Jew," and many others.
Captions.
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Gustave Dore Tarot (Cards)
Pietro Alligo, Gustav Dore
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Doré's sympathy to Cervantes' satire was so complete that, of numerous interpretations by many artists, his has become standard. Here are 190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions.
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Inferno (Paperback, New edition)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by Anthony Esolen; Illustrated by Gustav Dore
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This groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece
includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and
appendices that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences.
This resource book contains beautiful Illustrations of Rime of the
Ancient Mariner made by Gustave Dore.
1890. This volume is a collection of engravings illustrative of the
Bible, the designs being all from the pencil of the greatest of
modern delineators, Gustave Dore. The original work from which this
collection has been made was immediately popular. Each illustration
has a page of explanatory letter-press facing it. Mr. Dore has
added the luster of his genius, bringing the beauties of this great
work into clearer view and warms them to a fuller life.
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