Literature Book Cover & Movie/Drama Posters & Prints 1/3
for classrooms and home schoolers, theme decor.

Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott
b. 12-20-1838; England
d. 10-12-1926

Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions is the story of a two dimensional world where the narrator, a humble square, guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. Isaac Asimov said in the Foreword that "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions."

• math & numbers posters
• computer posters
• notable teachers posters
• portrait of Edwin Abbot print

Little Women is the enormously popular novel by Louise May Alcott.
b. 11-29-1832; Germantown, PA
d. 3-6-1888; Concord

Little Women was first published on September 30, 1868, selling more than 2,000 copies immediately.

Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem set in the 5th century and based on oral traditions. The author is unknown and the only survivng manuscript (Nowell Codex) dates c. 1010.

Beowulf, a hero of the Geats (Geatland = modern southern Sweden), has three enemies: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall (Heorot) and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and an unnamed dragon. Beowulf is mortally wounded in the final battle.

• Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
• more Middle Ages posters

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
b. 11-16-1930; Nigeria

Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "stong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stroies traces Okonkowo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflicet between the individual and soiety. The second story, which is as modern as the first is aancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. Things Fall Apart is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within. (book flap)

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Tarzan and the Ant Men
Edgar Rice Burroughs
b. 9-1-1875; Chicago, IL
d. 3-19-1950; Encino, CA

Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is one of the most recognizable character in literature. The first book, Tarzan and the Ape Men was originally published in a magazine in 1912, the book format was released in 1914. The name "Tarzan" in copyrighted.

• Tarzan and the Ant Men (book)

The Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
b. 2-5-1914; Missouri
d. 8-2-1997; Kansas

• Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Alice and Humpty Dumpty, Cover Illustration for "Alice Through the Looking-Glass"
Lewis Carroll
John Tenniel, illustrator

• Lewis Carroll posters

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (edited by Boz)
Charles Dickens

• Charles Dickens posters

Deliverance
James Dickey, Poster
b. 2-2-1923; Georgia
d. 1-19-1997

• Deliverance

Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle

b. 5-22-1858; Scotland
d. 7-2-1930

• Arthur Conan Doyle portrait
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes
• Sherlock Holmes - Eat Smart poster

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
b. 3-3-1914; Oklahoma City, OK
d. 4-16-1994

Back cover text: First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be. ...

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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. 9-24-1896; St. Paul, MN
d. 12-21-1940

• Fitzgerald in 20th Century American Authors posters
• American Authors composite poster
• F. Scott Fitzgerald at Amazon.com

Save Me the Waltz
Zelda Fitzgerald
b. 7-24-1900; Alabama -
d. 3-10-1948; NC

• Save Me the Waltz - An autobiographical tale by F. Scott Fitzgerald's underrated wife.

Book Cover for 'Les Terres du Ciel' Written
Camille Flammarion
b. 2-26-1842; France
d. 6-3-1925

• Camille Flammarion photo
• Flammarion Woodcut
• Omega: The Last Days of the World; Flammarion

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
b. 5-1-1923; Brooklyn, NY
d. 12-12-1999; Long Island

• Catch-22

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
b. 7-26-1894; England
d. 11-22-1963

• Aldous Huxley portrait
• Brave New World book
• banned books page

Love's Comedy (1862)
Henrik Ibsen
b. 3-20-1828; Norway
d. 5-23-1906

Kjærlighedens Komedie (Love's Comedy) was written by Norwegian poet and playwright Henry Ibsen, in 1862.

• Four Major Plays : A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder

On the Road
Jack Kerouac
b. 3-12-1922; Lowell, MA
d. 10-21-1969

• Kerouac Street Sign print
• The Portable Jack Kerouac
• East Village Guide Map Poster

The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling are pourquoi ("why" in French) stories, also known as 'origin stories', which are fictional narratives explaining why somethings is the way it is - for instance "how the elephant got a long nose". Folk tales, myths and legends could be considered pourquoi stories.

Rudyard Kipling was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Man Who Died
D.H. Lawrence
b. 9-11-1885; England
d. 3-2-1930; Italy

• D. H. Lawrence photograph

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
b. 4-28-1926; Alabama

• To Kill a Mockingbird

Cover of 'Le Chateau Noir'
Gaston Leroux, 1922.

Gaston Leroux is the author of The Phantom of the Opera.