Lighting up readers' hearts and imaginations since it was first published in 1942, this is the story about a lighthouse that stands near the George Washington Bridge in New York City. Full color.

A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.

The major American artist invented the concept of a wordless novel with this evocative, text-free "woodcut" narrative. Autobiographical in nature, the novel recounts Ward's struggles with his craft and with life in the 1920s. The intricate woodcuts transcend all barriers of language, and fresh details reward the eye with every review. 139 black-and-white illustrations.

From the eve of the Great Depression to the start of World War II, Lynd Ward (1905-1985) observed the troubled American scene through the double lens of a politically committed storyteller and a visionary graphic artist. His medium--the wordless "novel in woodcuts"--was his alone, and he quickly brought it from bold iconographic infancy to subtle and still unrivalled mastery.
"Gods' Man" (1929), the audaciously ambitious work that made Ward's reputation, is a modern morality play, an allegory of the deadly bargain a striving young artist often makes with life. Madman's Drum (1930), a multigenerational saga worthy of Faulkner, traces the legacy of violence haunting a family whose stock in trade is human souls. Wild Pilgrimage (1932), perhaps the most accomplished of these early books, is a study in the brutalization of an American factory worker whose heart can still respond to beauty but whose mind is twisted in rage against the system and its shackles.
"Prelude to a Million Years" (1933) is a dark meditation on art, inspiration, and the disparity between the ideal and the real. "Song Without Words" (1936), a protest against the rise of European fascism, asks if ours is a world still fit for the human soul. "Vertigo" (1937), Ward's undisputed masterpiece, is an epic novel on the theme of the individual caught in the downward spiral of a sinking American economy. Its characters include a young violinist, her luckless fiance, and an elderly business magnate who--movingly, and without ever becoming a political caricature--embodies the social forces determining their fate.
The images reproduced in this volume are taken from prints pulled from the original woodblocks or first-generation electrotypes. The Library of America is proud to bring Ward's masterworks to a new generation of readers, together with nine illuminating essays about his craft, including those he wrote for the long out-of-print "Storyteller Without Words," a 1974 retrospective. Art Spiegelman contributes an introductory essay, "Reading Pictures," that defines Ward's towering achievement in that most demanding of graphic-story forms, the wordless novel in woodcuts.

The powerful imagery and psychological intensity of Ward's wordless works have elicited comparisons to the writings of Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, and they continue to influence modern graphic novelists such as Frank Miller. This 1930 work tells a gripping tale through imagery alone, consisting solely of hauntingly rendered woodcuts. 128 illustrations.

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

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This delightful children's storybook, written in 1952 by Carley Dawson, comes complete with the recreated original cover and it is fully illustrated. It tells the story of twelve-year-old Chris, who entered Mr. Wicker's shop to inquire about a job for his friend. However, he was so intrigued by Mr. Wicker that he took the job himself. So began an adventure beyond his wildest dreams, full of magic and adventure.

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