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Author : Charles Vess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : OCLC:502163047
Author : Neil Gaiman,Emma Bull,Charles De Lint,Elaine Lee,Sharyn McCrumb,Delia Sherman,Jeff Smith,Lee Smith,Midori Snyder,Jane Yolen
Publisher : Titan Comics
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781785869754
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri; min-height: 14.0px} Collecting together the critically acclaimed The Book of Ballads and Sagas series by the legendary fantasy artist Charles Vess. The award-winning compendium of English, Irish and Scottish fairy tales and folklore returns to print in a sumptuous new collection featuring stories written by multi-award winning author Neil Gaiman (‘Sandman’, ‘Coraline’, and ‘Stardust’), Eisner and Harvey Award-winning cartoonish Jeff Smith (‘Bone’), Aurora award-winning author Charles De Lint, New York Times Bestseller Sharyn McCrumb, Elaine Lee (‘Starstruck’) and acclaimed children’s writer Jane Yolen. This new collection also includes, for the first time since its original publication, back in 1995, Vess’ unfinished epic saga ‘Skade’, and includes an additional 10 pages of artwork that have never been seen before. “Each ballad is a little gem sparkling with restored vitality. It is all here: lust and humor, ghosts and demons, passion and terror, all the things that keep us up at night. What more could the fantasy reader desire?” – SciFi Dimensions “Here Vess reaches the peak of his art, standing proudly with the 19th and early 20th century illustrators who influence him.” – Publishers Weekly “A cloth of rare delight, rich with the perfume of the forest and its graces.” – James Gurney, author of Dinotopia
Author : Charles Vess
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0765312158
Now in trade paperback, a unique collection of ballads, folktales, and magical sagas, retold in graphic-novel form by an all-star cast of modern fantasists
Author : Charles Vess
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781621151616
The fantasy art of Charles Vess is acclaimed worldwide, his rich palette, striking compositions, and lavish detail second to none. Vess created memorable works for such best selling fantasy authors as Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, Charles De Lint, and George R. R. Martin, as well as a who''s-who list of publishers and clients. His art is breathtakingly singular while recalling the golden age of illustration, when paint and brush were the vessels that carried readers to distant lands, bygone ages, and realms of the imagination. Featuring a forword by Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
Author : Various
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781783294428
This limited edition oversized deluxe hardback collection contains original script pages from award-winning writer Neil Gaiman, as well as never-before-seen art and an amazing gallery of sketches. Illustrated and presented by one of the leading artists in modern fantasy, Charles Vess, The Book of Ballads presents the great songs and folktales of the English, Irish, and Scottish traditions re-imagined in sequential-art form, in collaboration with some of today's strongest fantasy writers.
Author : Charles Vess
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789097672
From Charles Vess’s personal archive, a breathtaking collection of his illustrations, from sketches to stunning paintings, for the acclaimed masterwork written by Neil Gaiman. Includes an exclusive introduction from Neil Gaiman. An elegant and lavish coffee table book revealing the origins, processes, and brilliant final paintings produced for the award-winning fantasy novel Stardust written by Neil Gaiman. From the moment Gaiman asked Vess to join him on the project, through the layouts, concept illustrations, pen-and-ink drawings, and breath-taking paintings—printed in an oversized format and including works from before they were adjusted to fit the text. Includes work for all of the different editions, and even the ultra-rare portfolio A Fall of Stardust with contributions from many famous cartoonists and illustrators including Mike Mignola (Hellboy), William Stout, Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo), and Sergio Aragones (Mad).
Author : Sharyn McCrumb
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250022684
The New York Times Bestseller Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb's crowning achievements. In 1833 Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl convicted of murder in Burke County, North Carolina. Through a detailed investigation, the local sheriff, and soon all the townsfolk, discover reason to question her guilt---but the wheels of justice were mercilessly unstoppable, and she was hanged. Now, more than a century later, another woman is convicted of murder in the lush hills of Tennessee. Her life is in the hands of Spencer Arrowood, a man who begins to discover that the convictions of these two women have deep and haunting parallels. Although Frankie's fate cannot be changed, there is still time to alter the fate of another innocent woman. In a voice that could only be Sharyn McCrumb's, the worlds of these two murders, these two women, intersect in this densely plotted and lyrical novel—and characters, generations, and history are breathlessly painted against an Appalachian canvas.
Author : George Low
Publisher : Carlton Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1844420590
Maori challenge The forgotten five War in the wet Test by battle Regan's Raiders Killing zone Outback Army Sub-Chaser Secret in the sand Island of fear Outlaw from the Outback The warlord.
Author : J. M. DeMatteis
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506709468
A romantic, unreliable narrator leads us through his interplanetary coming-of-age story, as an older Moonshadow recounts his strange mixed-species birth in outer space, his escape from a deep-space zoo, and his struggles to survive in a war-torn universe. With gorgeous watercolour artwork by Jon J Muth, this influential, timeless 'fairy tale for adults' has been digitally restored in a new deluxe hardcover. With a new introduction by writer J.M. DeMatteis and a new bonus section featuring concept art and early notes from the creative team.
Author : Charles Vess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1569710341
In the fantasy tradition of The Lord of the Rings comes this collection of magical tales, featuring The Children of the Stars' and several pieces of Vess' short fiction previously uncollected.'
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996902511
A lush compilation of fantasy illustrations and writing from celebrated artist Charles Vess with additional poetry and writing by others.
Author : Russell Gilbert Poole
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802067891
The Old Norse and Icelandic poets have left us vivid accounts of conflict and peace-making in the Viking Age. Russell G. Poole's editorial and critical analysis reveals much about the texts themselves, the events that they describe, and the culture from which they come. Poole attempts to put right many misunderstandings about the integrity of the texts and their narrative techniques. From a historical perspective, he weighs the poems' authenticity as contemporary documents which provide evidence bearing upon the reconstruction of Viking Age battles, peace negotiations, and other events. He traces the social roles played by violence in medieval Scandinavian society, and explores the many functions of the poet within that society. Arguing that these texts exhibit a mind-style so vastly different from our own present 'individualism, ' Poole suggests that the mind-set of the medieval Scandinavian could be termed 'non-individualist.' The poems discussed are the 'Darradarljód, ' where the speakers are Valkyries; 'Lidsmannaflokkr, ' a rank-and-file warrior's description of Canute the Great's siege of London in 1016; 'Torf-Einarr's Revenge'; 'Egil's Duel with Ljótr, ' five verses from the classic Egils saga Skallagrimssonar; 'A Battle on the Health, ' marking the culmination of a famous feud described in a very early Icelandic saga, the Heidarviga saga; and two extracts from the poem Sexstefia, one describing Haraldr of Norway's great fleet and victory over Sveinn of Denmark, and the other the peace settlement between these two kinds. The texts are presented in association with translations and commentaries as a resource not merely for medieval Scandinavian studies but also for the increasingly interwoven specialisms of literary theory and anthropology.
Author : Charles Willeford
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307488213
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge, and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, and her ex-con boyfriend and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp. Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you think of as the perfect cop, but he is one of the the greatest detective creations of all time.
Author : Pietro Rossi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110420722
Europe’s boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. This volume of bilingual essays from renowned European scholars outlines the transformation of Europe’s boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization, or the end of the explicit endeavor to “Europeanize” the world.From the decline of the Roman Empire to the polycentrism of today’s world, the essays span such aspects as the confrontation of Christian Europe with Islam and the changing role of the Mediterranean from “mare nostrum” to a frontier between nations. Scandinavia, eastern Europe and the Atlantic are also analyzed as boundaries in the context of exploration, migratory movements, cultural exchanges, and war. The Boundaries of Europe, edited by Pietro Rossi, is the first installment in the ALLEA book series Discourses on Intellectual Europe, which seeks to explore the question of an intrinsic or quintessential European identity in light of the rising skepticism towards Europe as an integrated cultural and intellectual region.
Author : Rob Walton
Publisher : Big Bang Incorporated
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : UOM:39015069368549
Wannabe super-villain Alice Hawkings seeks to find the all-powerful O-Ring in a cuttingly satirical universe filled with scheming politicians, secret organizations, celestial powers, aliens, and dinosaurs.