“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” --- Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay, "The Philosophy of Composition". The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens. Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship", and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout. "The Raven" was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. Its publication made Poe widely popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success. The poem was soon reprinted, parodied, and illustrated. Critical opinion is divided as to the poem's literary status, but it nevertheless remains one of the most famous poems ever written.

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Product Description: Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg in 1832. He was a child prodigy troublemaker, playing wild pranks on many people. At the age of fifteen, Doré began his career as a caricaturist for a French newspaper. In 1853, he was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron...read more

Product Description: Illustrated Classics - The Raven by Edgar Allan PoeThe RavenStory and 30 Original IllustrationsEdgar Allan PoeIllustrated by Gustave Dore;BRAND NEW EDITION"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere...read more

Product Description: Illustrations to History of the CrusadesGustave Dore This glorious collection includes 60  of Gustave Doré illustrations relating to the crusdaes, plates include:1.            The Ottomans Penetrate Hungary2...read more

Product Description: Biblical Illustrations The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations by Gustave Doré This volume, as its title indicates, is a collection of engravings illustrative of the Bible — the designs being all from the pencil of the greatest of modern delineators, Gustave Doré...read more

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Product Description: The hundred and thirty-six illustrations of this book in large format have been originally done for the French and American editions of the Divine Comedy, between the years 1857 and 1868. That is to say: the portrait of Dante Alighieri (page 1); 75 illustrations for the Inferno; 42 for the Purgatorio; and 18 for the Paradiso...read more

Product Description: This collection includes 103 illustrations of Miguel de Cervantes' classic book "Don Quixote." They were done in England by 19th Century artist Gustave Dore. He was a master of engraving and painting. He worked with immense skill from about 1850 to 1875, mostly in London...read more

A certain eighteenth-century German noble ventured abroad for military service and returned with a series of amusingly outrageous stories. Baron Munchausen's astounding feats included riding cannonballs, traveling to the Moon, and pulling himself out of a bog by his own hair. Listeners delighted in hearing about these unlikely adventures, and in 1785, the stories were collected and published as Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. By the nineteenth century, the tales had undergone expansions and transformations by several notable authors and had been translated into many languages.A figure as colorful as the Baron naturally appeals to the artistic imagination, and he has been depicted in numerous works of art. His definitive visual image, however, belongs to Gustave Doré. Famed for his engravings of scenes from the Bible, the Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, and other literary classics, Doré created theatrical illustrations of the Baron's escapades that perfectly re-create the stories' picaresque humor.

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Product Description: The editors of Canterbury Classics have chosen to print the King James version of the Holy Bible, which contains both the Old and New Testaments. The Holy Bible was first copied by scribes and, because of its length and the time it took to hand write each book, only the elite had a copy...read more

Product Description: This resource is the teacher guide for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Complete Student Guide for Learning the Classic Poem. This teacher guide includes: complete answers to the the student resource, teaching tips and directions, and additional resources.

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: With drawings from the work of Gustave Doré, the 19th century illustrator, this is a delightful, fantastical new book by the author of The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear.