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classic literature comic books

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

classic literature comic books
What are your favorite literary names?

It can be from any genre of book really. Classic literature, SciFi, Romance, adventure, poetry, plays, comics, children’s books, (lol) anything.
oh i have a soft spot for Darcy myself. :) love it!

Juliet – Shakespeare
Phoebe -Shakespeare
Elizabeth – Pride and Prejudice
Anastasia – a Nora Roberts book, can’t think of the name
Tallulah – also can’t think of the book’s name
Charlotte – Charlotte Bronte
Templar – some really old Mills and Boon book where they were still innocent!
Maia
Gabby -from a Nick Sparks book
Ally – from a Nick Sparks book
Minnie Brandon – from Confessions of a Shopaholic (in fiction it is awesome, real life- no)It just suits
Savannah – Nick Sparks, I think it was The Choice
Imogen – Shakespeare
Hermione – Shakespeare/Harry Potter

MALES
Cian from the Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts (I think it is mainly because I really loved the character lol)
Roarke from the In Death series by JD Robb. Read the books and you will love the name
Romeo- Shakespeare
James – Twilight is the only book I could think of at the moment
Landon – A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Noah – The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Luke Brandon – Confessions of a Shopaholic
Chaz – from a Meg Cabot series, the Queen of Babble
Charlie – Twilight

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Graphic Classics


Graphic Classics


$9.46


Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker is completely revised, with an all-new comics adaptation of Dracula by Rich Rainey and Joe Ollmann. Returning from the first edition are “The Judge`s House” by Gerry Alanguilan, “Torture Tower” by Onsmith Jeremi, and “The …

Flaming Carrot Comics Presents, The Wild Shall Wild Remain!


Flaming Carrot Comics Presents, The Wild Shall Wild Remain!


$11.39


America`s first surrealist superhero! Be it killing criminals with baloney guns, fighting eight-foot long chicken wings, or romancing bodacious sidekicks, Flaming Carrot is the everyman`s kind of hero! From the creator of the cult-classic Mystery Men m…

Blazing Combat (Paperback)


Blazing Combat (Paperback)


$12.91


A volume of reproductions from the influential war-comics magazine offers insight into the periodical`s controversial publication of anti-war tales, in a collection that includes the classic short, “Landscape,” in which a jaded Vietnamese rice farmer b…

Gil`s All Fright Diner


Gil`s All Fright Diner


$6.92


Much wackiness ensues in this debut novel, a comic sendup of classic horror movies, buddy films, and Lovecraftian tropes. Earl,

Classic Comics Illustrators


Classic Comics Illustrators


$20.44


Celebrates four of the great all-time comic book artists: Frank Frazetta, Burne Hogarth, Mark Schultz, and Dave Stevens. Together they bridge almost seventy years of comics and fantasy art tied to tradition, craft, and an emphasis on the human form. …

Classic Crews


Classic Crews


$22.84


This anthology provides a good introduction to the comic, quirky works of Harry Crews. It includes two novels–THE GYPSY’S CURSE and CAR–as well as his memoir (A CHILDHOOD). and three essays.

Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (Paperback)


Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (Paperback)


$9.38


This volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford, providing along the way brilliant …

Graphic Classics


Graphic Classics


$9.85


The ninth in a series of books which present great literature in comics and heavily-illustrated format by some of the best artists working today in the fields of comics, book illustration and fine arts. This volume includes comics adaptations of “The S…

Harvey Comics Classics 5 (Paperback)


Harvey Comics Classics 5 (Paperback)


$13.43


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Masterpiece Comics (Hardcover)


Masterpiece Comics (Hardcover)


$14.81


R. Sikoryak is a master of parody–in an immediate, superficial, stylistic way and in a deeper, getting-at-the-heart-of-things way. In this collection of 14 pieces, Sikoryak riffs in equal parts on classics of the literary canon and classics of the Sun…

Encyclopedia of Hell


Encyclopedia of Hell


$16.04


A lavishly illustrated catalog of depictions of hell in popular culture: in film, television, music, classic literature, and art, as well as comic books, T-shirts, album covers, and more.

Bai Ganyo (Paperback)


Bai Ganyo (Paperback)


$14.81


A comic classic of world literature, Aleko Konstantinov’s 1895 novel Bai Ganyo follows the misadventures of rose-oil salesman Ganyo Balkanski (“Bai” is a Bulgarian title of intimate respect) as he travels in Europe. Unkemp…

Classics and Comics (Book)


Classics and Comics (Book)


$99


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Classics and Comics (Book)


Classics and Comics (Book)


$29.95


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Simpsons Comics Take on the Classics (Paperback)


Simpsons Comics Take on the Classics (Paperback)


$10.09


Features the Simpsons family in classic literature including Greek mythology, Bible stories, and fairytales.