17 June 2015

CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED

CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED COMIC BOOKS © Farouk Asvat 

THE JOYS OF LITERATURE 
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[] CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED COMIC BOOKS 

169 titles, including:

● ARABIAN NIGHTS: various unknown (middle east to china)
● THE JAPANESE LANTERN: traditional (japan)
● THE ILIAD: Homer (greece)
● THE ODYSSEY: Homer (greece)
● DON QUIXOTE: Miguel De Cervantes (spain)
● THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (spain) (conquistador)
● THE THREE MUSKETEERS: Alexandre Dumas (france)
● THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Alexandre Dumas (france)
● LES MISERABLES: Victor Hugo (france)
● THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME: Victor Hugo (france)
● TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: Jules Verne (france)
● AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS: Jules Verne (france)
● CYRANO DE BERGERAC: Edmond Rostand (france)
● THE DOWNFALL: Emile Zola (france)
● CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Fýodor Dostoyevsky (russia)
● THE COSSACK CHIEF: Nikolai Gogol (russia)
● WILLIAM TELL: Frederick Schiller (germany)
● FAUST: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (germany)
● HAMLET: William Shakespeare (Edward de Vere) (britain)
● MACBETH: William Shakespeare (Edward de Vere) (britain)
● ROMEO AND JULIET: William Shakespeare (Edward de Vere) (britain)
● A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: William Shakespeare (Edward de Vere) (britain)
● GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: Jonathan Swift (britain)
● ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Lewis Carroll (britain)
● THE JUNGLE BOOK: Rudyard Kipling (britain)
● KIM: Rudyard Kipling (britain)
● OLIVER TWIST: Charles Dickens (britain)
● GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Charles Dickens (britain)
● DAVID COPPERFIELD: Charles Dickens (britain)
● IVANHOE: Walter Scott (scotland, britain)
● ROBINSON CRUSOE: Daniel Defoe (britain)
● TREASURE ISLAND: Robert Louis Stevenson (britain)
● DR JEKYLL & MR. HYDE: Robert Louis Stevenson (britain)
● FRANKENSTEIN: Mary W Shelley (britain)
● THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: Arthur Conan Doyle (britain)
● THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: H G Wells (britain)
● THE TIME MACHINE: H G Wells (britain)
● WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Emily Brontë (britain)
● JANE EYRE: Charlotte Brontë (britain)
● LORD JIM: Joseph Conrad (poland / britain)
● BLACK BEAUTY: Anna Sewell (britain)
● MOBY DICK: Herman Melville (usa)
● HUCKLEBERRY FINN: Mark Twain (usa)
● TOM SAWYER: Mark Twain (usa)
● RIP VAN WINKLE & HEADLESS HORSEMAN: Washington Irving (usa)
● UNCLE TOM'S CABIN: Harriet Beecher Stowe (usa)
● THE CALL OF THE WILD: Jack London (usa)
● THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS: James Fennimore Cooper (usa)
● MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY: Nordhoff & Hall (usa)
● HOW FIRE CAME TO THE INDIANS: traditional (north america)


[] CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED JUNIOR COMIC BOOKS: 

77 titles including:

● ALADDIN AND HIS LAMP: unknown (middle east to china)
     from THE TALES OF A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS: various unknown
● THE GOLDEN FLEECE: mythology (greece)
● SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● CINDERELLA: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● SLEEPING BEAUTY: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● HANSEL AND GRETEL: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● RUMPELSTILTSKIN: Brothers Grimm (germany) ]
● THE FROG PRINCE: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● RAPUNZEL: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● THE PIED PIPER: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● THE GOLDEN GOOSE: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER: Brothers Grimm (germany)
● THE UGLY DUCKLING: Hans Christian Anderson (denmark)
● THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES: Hans Christian Anderson (denmark)
● THUMBELINA: Hans Christian Anderson (denmark)
● THE LITTLE MERMAID: Hans Christian Anderson (denmark)
● THE NIGHTINGALE: Hans Christian Anderson (denmark)
● BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: traditional (europe)
● PUSS-IN-BOOTS: traditional (europe)
● THE 3 LITTLE PIGS: traditional (britain)
● JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: traditional (britain)
● GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS: traditional (britain)
● PINOCCHIO: carlo collodi (italy)
● THE WIZARD OF OZ: L Frank Baum (usa)

     ● LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN!

classics illustrated comic books: 50 of 169 titles
classics illustrated junior comic books: 25 of 77 titles

© farouk asvat

composed: 2010 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].

* most of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm
& Hans Christian Anderson are traditional European tales.

[] Acknowledgements:
Classics Illustrated was previously published in:
     Weapons of Words (kindle, 2016);
     Weapons of Words (amazon paperback, p131, 2016).
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (comparative literature & literary criticism)

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