A visual tribute to playwright William Shakespeare, featuring paintings and sketches of over sixty-five Shakespearean characters, with notes on the language, myths, murders, and other aspects of the Bard's stories.
Detailed charcoal drawings by sports artist LeRoy Neiman are used to illustrate the classic narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.
Reproduces 135 black-and-white illustrations created by nineteenth-century artist Gustave Dor? for "The Inferno," "Purgatory," and "Paradise," each accompanied by appropriate lines from the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation of Dante's work; and includes Dor?'s drawing of author Dante Alighieri.
Showcases the complete artwork created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Hobbit, including more than one hundred sketches, drawings, paintings, maps, and plans.
