http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library Print Store > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved 2009-11-23T05:19:23Z en-gb 86400 Digital Media Commerce Server from Media Storehouse Ltd Charles Dickens 's A Tale of Two Cities - portrait of Sydney Carton 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Illustration by Frederick Barnard (English illustrator 1846-1896) > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_937790/charles-dickens-s http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_937790/charles-dickens-s.jpg 2008-04-18T15:55:20Z dmcs-937790 Lorna Doone - novel by Richard Blackmore - illustration from Albert Armstrong 's 'Picture Play' - 'Jerry saves John 's life' . Blackmore -7 June 1825 - 20 January 1900 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_937824/lorna-doone-novel http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_937824/lorna-doone-novel.jpg 2008-04-18T15:57:45Z dmcs-937824 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - illustration and poem - showing couple in field - Persian poet and mathematician illustration by Gilbert James. Islamic art. Persia / Iran > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938592/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938592/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.jpg 2008-04-18T16:30:25Z dmcs-938592 MILTON - PARADISE LOST - Book 12 The Angel Michael leads Adam and Eve out of Paradise by the hand. English Poet. First published 1667. Reproduced from 4th edition 1757. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938657/milton-paradise-lost http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938657/milton-paradise-lost.jpg 2008-04-18T16:59:12Z dmcs-938657 MILTON - PARADISE LOST - Book 1 'Satan and his Angels now falling into Hell described here, not in the center... but in a place of utter darkness, firstliest called Chaos' English Poet. First published 1667. Reproduced from 4th edition 1757. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938658/milton-paradise-lost http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938658/milton-paradise-lost.jpg 2008-04-18T17:01:42Z dmcs-938658 MILTON - PARADISE LOST - Book 4 'Satan's first sight of Adam and Eve; his wonder at their excellent form and happy state.' English Poet. First published 1667. Reproduced from 4th edition 1757. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938659/milton-paradise-lost http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938659/milton-paradise-lost.jpg 2008-04-18T17:01:47Z dmcs-938659 Goethe 's poem Hermann and Dorothea. Illustrated scene, by F. Elssner. German poet, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, 1749-1832. Early 20th century postcard. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940062/goethe-s-poem-hermann http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940062/goethe-s-poem-hermann.jpg 2008-04-21T12:08:21Z dmcs-940062 Goethe 's poem Hermann and Dorothea. Illustrated scene, by F. Elssner. German poet, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher. 1749-1832. Early 20th century postcard. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940070/goethe-s-poem-hermann http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940070/goethe-s-poem-hermann.jpg 2008-04-21T12:09:06Z dmcs-940070 The Pilgrim 's Progress by John Bunyan - Scene as 'Christian and Hopeful Escape from Doubting Castle'. Full title of book- 'The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to that Which is to Come delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Published London, 1776. First published 1678. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940235/the-pilgrim-s-progress http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940235/the-pilgrim-s-progress.jpg 2008-04-21T12:28:59Z dmcs-940235 Charles Dickens character Dolly Varden, from the novel Barnaby Rudge. From the painting by W.P. Frith. English novelist: 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940283/charles-dickens-character http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940283/charles-dickens-character.jpg 2008-04-21T12:35:05Z dmcs-940283 Utopia - written by Sir Thomas More - illustration - plan of Utopia 1518 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940333/utopia-written-by http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940333/utopia-written-by.jpg 2008-04-21T12:42:02Z dmcs-940333 Laurence Sterne - 'Sentimental Journey' . English writer, 1713-1768. Illustration by Rowlandson (1756 -1827). Caption reads 'The Dance at Amiens'. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940343/laurence-sterne-sentimental http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940343/laurence-sterne-sentimental.jpg 2008-04-21T12:44:14Z dmcs-940343 Charles Dickens' book 'Oliver Twist' illustration by George Cruikshank of Oliver Twist with Fagin and his boys. English novelist, 1812-1870. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940362/charles-dickens-book http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940362/charles-dickens-book.jpg 2008-04-21T12:47:36Z dmcs-940362 William Makepeace Thackeray - Title page from the first edition of ' Mrs. Perkins's Ball ' ( 1847 ) by the English novelist born in India. 1811-1863. Author of Vanity Fair and other popular novels. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940381/william-makepeace-thackeray- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940381/william-makepeace-thackeray-.jpg 2008-04-21T12:51:10Z dmcs-940381 William Makepeace Thackeray - Portrait of the English novelist born in India. 1811-1863. Author of Vanity Fair and other popular novels. From a pencil drawing by Richard Doyle. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940382/william-makepeace-thackeray- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940382/william-makepeace-thackeray-.jpg 2008-04-21T12:51:25Z dmcs-940382 Jane Austen' s novel ' Northanger Abbey' - First published 1817. Caption reads: 'What an old gown she has got on'. edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1897. English novelist b. 16 December 1775 - 1817. Ball . Artist HT 1860 - 1920 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940429/jane-austen-s-novel http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940429/jane-austen-s-novel.jpg 2008-04-21T12:58:44Z dmcs-940429 Jane Austen' s novel ' Northanger Abbey' - First published 1817. Caption reads: 'Off they went, without a plunge or a caper'. Edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1897. English novelist b. 16 December 1775 - 1817. Horse and carriage. . Artist HT 1860 - 1920 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940430/jane-austen-s-novel http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940430/jane-austen-s-novel.jpg 2008-04-21T12:58:54Z dmcs-940430 Jane Austen' s novel ' Northanger Abbey' - First published 1817. Caption reads: ' The three villians in horsemen's greatcoats'. Edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1897. English novelist b. 16 December 1775 - 1817. . Artist HT 1860 - 1920 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940431/jane-austen-s-novel http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940431/jane-austen-s-novel.jpg 2008-04-21T12:59:02Z dmcs-940431 Jane Austen' s novel ' Northanger Abbey' - First published 1817. Caption reads: 'Mr Tilney!' she exclaimed.' edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1897. English novelist b. 16 December 1775 - 1817. Artist HT 1860 - 1920 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940432/jane-austen-s-novel http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940432/jane-austen-s-novel.jpg 2008-04-21T12:59:15Z dmcs-940432 Jane Austen' s novel ' Persuasion' - Written 1816 and published 1818. Caption reads: ' He carpentered' edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1897. English novelist b. 16 December 1775 - 1817. Carpenter. . Artist HT 1860 - 1920 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940433/jane-austen-s-novel http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940433/jane-austen-s-novel.jpg 2008-04-21T12:59:28Z dmcs-940433 Jane Austen' s novel ' Persuasion' - Written 1816 and published 1818. Caption reads: ' Looking on her with a face as pallid as her own' edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1897. English novelist b. 16 December 1775 - 1817. Heroine faints in hero 's arms. . Artist HT 1860 - 1920 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940434/jane-austen-s-novel http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940434/jane-austen-s-novel.jpg 2008-04-21T12:59:47Z dmcs-940434 Jane Austen' s novel ' Persuasion' - Written 1816 and published 1818. Caption reads: ' Sits at her elbow, reading verses', edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1897. English novelist b. 16 December 1775 - 1817. Heroine faints in hero 's arms. . Artist HT 1860 - 1920 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940435/jane-austen-s-novel http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940435/jane-austen-s-novel.jpg 2008-04-21T12:59:56Z dmcs-940435 Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin - A Tale of Life Among the Lowly' - First published 1852. illustration from early 20th century edition - 'Eliza's escape across the Ohio on the Ice'' - Harriet Beecher Stowe 14 June 1811 - 1 July 1896. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940442/harriet-beecher-stowe-s http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940442/harriet-beecher-stowe-s.jpg 2008-04-21T13:00:15Z dmcs-940442 Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin - A Tale of Life Among the Lowly' -. First published 1852. illustration from early 20th century edition - 'Eva and Uncle Tom in the Garden' - published by Frederick Warne, London - Harriet Beecher Stowe 14 June 1811 - 1 July 1896. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940443/harriet-beecher-stowe-s http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940443/harriet-beecher-stowe-s.jpg 2008-04-21T13:00:23Z dmcs-940443 Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin - A Tale of Life Among the Lowly' - First published 1852. . illustration from early 20th century edition - 'Topsy and Eva' - published by Frederick Warne, London - Harriet Beecher Stowe 14 June 1811 - 1 July 1896. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940444/harriet-beecher-stowe-s http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940444/harriet-beecher-stowe-s.jpg 2008-04-21T13:00:45Z dmcs-940444 Charles Dickens' book 'Our Mutual Friend'. Illustration from chapter II, book 2, 'The Person of the House and the Bad Child'. English novelist, 1812-1870. Illustrations by Marcus Stone from edition published by Hazell, Watson and Viney, London. Horse and carriage. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940460/charles-dickens-book http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940460/charles-dickens-book.jpg 2008-04-21T13:03:47Z dmcs-940460 Charles Dickens' book 'Our Mutual Friend' - Illustration from chapter VII, book 2, 'Pa's Lodger and Pa's Daughter'. English novelist, 1812-1870. Illustrations by Marcus Stone from edition published by Hazell, Watson and Viney, London. Horse and carriage. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940461/charles-dickens-book http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940461/charles-dickens-book.jpg 2008-04-21T13:03:58Z dmcs-940461 Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset. Illustration captioned 'Posy and her Grandpapa' from original 1867 edition. Trollope, English novelist, 24 April 1815 - 6 December 1882. Child is playing with a cat's cradle. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940464/anthony-trollope-the-last http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940464/anthony-trollope-the-last.jpg 2008-04-21T13:04:46Z dmcs-940464 Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset - Illustration captioned 'What is it that I behold'' from original 1867 edition. Woman fainting. Victorian. Trollope, English novelist, 24 April 1815 - 6 December 1882. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940465/anthony-trollope-the-last http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940465/anthony-trollope-the-last.jpg 2008-04-21T13:04:58Z dmcs-940465 Huck Finn holding gun and hare, hunting - main protagonist of Mark Twain's novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Illustration rfrom 1902 edition. (Novel first published 1885). Mark Twain, American author, 30 November 1835 - 21 April 1910. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940466/huck-finn-holding-gun http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940466/huck-finn-holding-gun.jpg 2008-04-21T13:05:06Z dmcs-940466 Tom Sawyer and his band of robbers - protagonists of Mark Twain's novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Illustration from 1902 edition. (Novel first published 1885). Mark Twain, American author, 30 November 1835 - 21 April 1910. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940467/tom-sawyer-and-his http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940467/tom-sawyer-and-his.jpg 2008-04-21T13:05:15Z dmcs-940467 Anthony Trollope's novel 'He Knew He Was Right' - Illustration captioned 'Nora's letter' from original 1869 edition. Trollope, English novelist, 24 April 1815 - 6 December 1882. Victorian woman at dressing table writing letter. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940468/anthony-trollopes-novel-he http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940468/anthony-trollopes-novel-he.jpg 2008-04-21T13:05:26Z dmcs-940468 Anthony Trollope's novel 'He Knew He Was Right' - Illustration captioned 'You haven't forgotten Mamma'' from original 1869 edition. Trollope, English novelist, 24 April 1815 - 6 December 1882. Victorian woman with her child. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940469/anthony-trollopes-novel-he http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940469/anthony-trollopes-novel-he.jpg 2008-04-21T13:05:40Z dmcs-940469 Anthony Trollope's novel 'He Knew He Was Right' - Illustration captioned 'It is hard to speak sometimes' from original 1869 edition. Trollope, English novelist, 24 April 1815 - 6 December 1882. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940470/anthony-trollopes-novel-he http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940470/anthony-trollopes-novel-he.jpg 2008-04-21T13:05:51Z dmcs-940470 Anthony Trollope's novel 'He Knew He Was Right' - Illustration captioned 'The Rivals' from original 1869 edition. Trollope, English novelist, 24 April 1815 - 6 December 1882. Two Victorian ladies in a salon, with fan. Illustration by Marcus Stone. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940471/anthony-trollopes-novel-he http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940471/anthony-trollopes-novel-he.jpg 2008-04-21T13:06:00Z dmcs-940471 Charles Dickens's novel 'Our Mutual Friend' - illustration entitled 'Lizzie, looking for her father, saw him coming, and stood upon the causeway that we might see her', by J. Mahoney. Dickens, British author, 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Our Mutual Friend was his last novel, first published 1864, in installments. River, sea. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940472/charles-dickenss-novel-our http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940472/charles-dickenss-novel-our.jpg 2008-04-21T13:06:09Z dmcs-940472 Charles Dickens's novel 'Our Mutual Friend' - illustration captioned 'Perched on the stool, with his hat cocked on his head, and one of his legs dangling, the youth of Fledgeby hardly contrasted to advantage with the age of the Jewish man as he stood with his bare head bowed', by J. Mahoney. Dickens, British author, 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Our Mutual Friend was his last novel, first published 1864, in installments. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940474/charles-dickenss-novel-our http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940474/charles-dickenss-novel-our.jpg 2008-04-21T13:06:44Z dmcs-940474 Charles Dickens's novel 'Our Mutual Friend' - illustration captioned ' 'You never charge me, Miss Wilfer' said the secretary, encountering her by chance alone in the great drawing-room, 'with commissions for home. I shall always be happy to execute any commands you may have in that direction'', by J. Mahoney. Dickens, British author, 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Our Mutual Friend was his last novel, first published 1864, in installments. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940475/charles-dickenss-novel-our http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940475/charles-dickenss-novel-our.jpg 2008-04-21T13:06:56Z dmcs-940475 Father William and the Youth, from Alice in Wonderland - by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English children's writer and mathematician 27 January 1832- 14 January 1898. First published 1865. Illustrations by John Tenniel 1820-1914. ''You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before, / And have grown most uncommonly fat ; / Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door- / Pray, what is the reason of that''' Upside down. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940476/father-william-and-the http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940476/father-william-and-the.jpg 2008-04-21T13:07:08Z dmcs-940476 Alice - returning from Wonderland, surrounded by cards and animals, 'ou are just a pack of cards'. from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English children's writer and mathematician 27 January 1832- 14 January 1898. First published 1865. Illustrations by John Tenniel 1820-1914. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940477/alice-returning-from http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940477/alice-returning-from.jpg 2008-04-21T13:07:18Z dmcs-940477 Alice going through the mirror, from Through the Looking-Glass (And What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English children's writer and mathematician 27 January 1832- 14 January 1898. First published 1872. Illustrations by John Tenniel 1820-1914. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940478/alice-going-through-the http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940478/alice-going-through-the.jpg 2008-04-21T13:07:29Z dmcs-940478 Alice, the Lion and the Unicorn, ('Then hand round the plum-cake Master,' the Lion said.' from Through the Looking-Glass (And What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English children's writer and mathematician 27 January 1832- 14 January 1898. First published 1872. Illustrations by John Tenniel 1820-1914. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940479/alice-the-lion-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940479/alice-the-lion-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:07:41Z dmcs-940479 The Walrus and the Gardener - from Through the Looking-Glass (And What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English children's writer and mathematician 27 January 1832- 14 January 1898. First published 1872. Illustrations by John Tenniel 1820-1914. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940480/the-walrus-and-the http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940480/the-walrus-and-the.jpg 2008-04-21T13:07:50Z dmcs-940480 Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' - tinted postcard, 'A relic of befo' the War in Florida', of cabin in field. Harriet Beecher Stowe: 14 June 1811 - 1 July 1896 - deep south, slave, slavery, abolition. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940487/harriet-beecher-stowe-s http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940487/harriet-beecher-stowe-s.jpg 2008-04-21T13:09:21Z dmcs-940487 The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Original illustration captioned: The Baron's Descent from the Moon. The Baron is suspended by a rope from a crescent moon. Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-1794) & Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Baron (Freiherr) von Musen (1720-1797) . Raspe was the first author to transcribe Munchausen's war stories into a book, which was subsequently expanded by other writers. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940499/the-surprising-adventures-of http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940499/the-surprising-adventures-of.jpg 2008-04-21T13:12:12Z dmcs-940499 Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais - Engraved frontispiece to the 1537 series. Son of Gargantua. Two giants travelling in a world of greed, stupidity, violence, grotesque jokes. circa 1484 - circa 1553. French monk, writer, humanist, physician, master of political and religoius satire. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940501/pantagruel-by-francois-rabelais http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940501/pantagruel-by-francois-rabelais.jpg 2008-04-21T13:12:42Z dmcs-940501 Gargantua by Francois Rabelais - Engraved frontispiece to the 1537 series. Two giants travelling in a world of greed, stupidity, violence, grotesque jokes. circa 1484 - circa 1553. French monk, writer, humanist, physician, master of political and religoius satire. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940502/gargantua-by-francois-rabelais http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940502/gargantua-by-francois-rabelais.jpg 2008-04-21T13:12:50Z dmcs-940502 The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens' - 'A new edition revised and corrected. To be completed in ten numbers.' illustration by George Cruikshank . Published London, Bradbury & Evans, 1846, English novelist, 1812-1870. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940517/the-adventures-of-oliver http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940517/the-adventures-of-oliver.jpg 2008-04-21T13:15:29Z dmcs-940517 'Prn and the Marquise de Merteuil' - engraving by Triens after Monnet, for the 'Liaisons Dangereuses' by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 1782. The Count Prevan raises his sword against the Marquise. Laclos 18 Oct 1741-5 Sept 1803. French novelist and army officer. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940543/prn-and-the-marquise http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940543/prn-and-the-marquise.jpg 2008-04-21T13:20:34Z dmcs-940543 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' Jorinda and Jorindel' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940564/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940564/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:24:15Z dmcs-940564 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' The Elves and the Shoemaker'' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940565/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940565/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:24:26Z dmcs-940565 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' The Turnip' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940566/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940566/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:24:41Z dmcs-940566 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' The Jew in the Bush' /the Jew among Thorns Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940568/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940568/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:25:00Z dmcs-940568 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' The King of the Golden Mountain' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940570/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940570/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:25:09Z dmcs-940570 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' Rumpel-Stilts-Kin' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940572/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940572/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:25:28Z dmcs-940572 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' The Goose-Girl' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940573/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940573/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:25:39Z dmcs-940573 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' The Blue Light' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940574/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940574/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:25:57Z dmcs-940574 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' The Young Giant and the Tailor' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940575/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940575/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:26:03Z dmcs-940575 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' The Young Giant and the Tailor' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940576/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940576/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:26:13Z dmcs-940576 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for ' Pee-Wit' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1878 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940577/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940577/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:26:30Z dmcs-940577 Brothers Grimm Children's and Household Tales - published in 1812-15. Later known as Grimm's fairy tales. Illustration for 'The Nose' Jacob Grimm: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859. Illustration by George Cruikshank in 1868 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940580/brothers-grimm-childrens-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940580/brothers-grimm-childrens-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:26:41Z dmcs-940580 A Thousand and One Nights - Arabian Nights tale. Caption reads: 'Sheherazade relating her first story to the Sultan'. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Scheherazade, Shahrazad > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940590/a-thousand-and-one http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940590/a-thousand-and-one.jpg 2008-04-21T13:27:27Z dmcs-940590 The Story of Sindbad the Sailor - Arabian Nights tale. Caption reads: 'Sindbad in the Tub'. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Sinbad. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940591/the-story-of-sindbad http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940591/the-story-of-sindbad.jpg 2008-04-21T13:27:37Z dmcs-940591 The Story of Sindbad the Sailor - Arabian Nights tale. Caption reads: 'Sindbad kills the old man of the sea'. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940593/the-story-of-sindbad http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940593/the-story-of-sindbad.jpg 2008-04-21T13:28:04Z dmcs-940593 Arabian Nights Tale - Arabian Nights tale. Caption reads: 'The concert at the palace of Schemselnihar '. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940594/arabian-nights-tale- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940594/arabian-nights-tale-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:28:21Z dmcs-940594 Arabian Nights tale - Caption reads: 'Ganem presentng the two slaves to Fetnab'. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940595/arabian-nights-tale- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940595/arabian-nights-tale-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:28:30Z dmcs-940595 The History of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp - Arabian Nights tale. Caption reads: 'The Magician commanding Aladdin to give up the lamp'. Illustration by Houghton. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940596/the-history-of-aladdin http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940596/the-history-of-aladdin.jpg 2008-04-21T13:28:41Z dmcs-940596 The History of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp - Arabian Nights tale. Caption reads: 'Aladdin sees the princess Badroulbourdour on the way to her bath'. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940597/the-history-of-aladdin http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940597/the-history-of-aladdin.jpg 2008-04-21T13:28:51Z dmcs-940597 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Arabian Nights tale. Caption reads: 'Ali Baba entering the cave'. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940598/ali-baba-and-the http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940598/ali-baba-and-the.jpg 2008-04-21T13:29:00Z dmcs-940598 Arabian Nights tale - Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Caption reads: 'Morgiana dancing before Cogia Houssain'. From Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainment > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940599/arabian-nights-tale- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940599/arabian-nights-tale-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:29:10Z dmcs-940599 Oliver Twist - illustration of a scene from the book by English novelist Charles Dickens with Oliver and Fagin. Caption reads: 'The Jew stepped gently to the door, which he fastened. He then drew forth, as it seemed to Oliver, from some trap in the floor, a small box'. Written in 1838. CD: 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940642/oliver-twist-illustration http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940642/oliver-twist-illustration.jpg 2008-04-21T13:37:30Z dmcs-940642 Ivanhoe - picture of a scene from the book by Sir Walter Scott of 'the disinherited knight collapsing after receiving from Rowena the Wreath of Chilvary.' Scottish writer and poet, 14 August 1771 - 21 September 1832. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940645/ivanhoe-picture-of http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940645/ivanhoe-picture-of.jpg 2008-04-21T13:38:07Z dmcs-940645 Ivanhoe - picture of a scene from the book by Sir Walter Scott of 'Rebecca challenging the trial by combat.' Scottish writer and poet, 14 August 1771 - 21 September 1832. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940646/ivanhoe-picture-of http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940646/ivanhoe-picture-of.jpg 2008-04-21T13:38:15Z dmcs-940646 Vanity Fair - picture of a scene from the book by William Makepeace Thackeray of 'Glorvina trying her fascinations on the Major'. English novelist, 18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863. Illustration by the author, > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940648/vanity-fair-picture http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940648/vanity-fair-picture.jpg 2008-04-21T13:38:39Z dmcs-940648 'The Three Musketeers' - illustration from the book by Alexandre Dumas of d'Artagnan being attacked by 'Milady'. French author, 24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870. Illustration by Sir John Gilbert . Book written 1844. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940649/the-three-musketeers- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940649/the-three-musketeers-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:38:48Z dmcs-940649 'The Vicar of Wakefield' - illustration from the book by Oliver Goldsmith. Caption reads: 'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding-gown'. Irish author and physician, 10 November 1730 - 4 April 1774. Drawing by William Mulready . Written in 1766. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940650/the-vicar-of-wakefield http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940650/the-vicar-of-wakefield.jpg 2008-04-21T13:38:54Z dmcs-940650 'The Vicar of Wakefield' - illustration from the book by Oliver Goldsmith. Caption reads: 'then the poor woman would sometimes tell the 'Squire that she thought him and Olivia extremely of a size' Irish author and physician, 10 November 1730 - 4 April 1774. Drawing by William Mulready from ', Written in 1766. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940651/the-vicar-of-wakefield http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940651/the-vicar-of-wakefield.jpg 2008-04-21T13:39:00Z dmcs-940651 'The bibliomaniac at his desk' - caricature from Sebastian Brant 's 'Ship of Fools'. SB: German satirist, 1457 - 10 May 1521. Book lover. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940652/the-bibliomaniac-at-his http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940652/the-bibliomaniac-at-his.jpg 2008-04-21T13:39:08Z dmcs-940652 The Woman in White - illustration of a scene from the book by William Wilkie Collins with a woman dressed in white leaving through a door into the night. WWC: British writer, 8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940700/the-woman-in-white http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940700/the-woman-in-white.jpg 2008-04-21T13:48:22Z dmcs-940700 'The Divine Comedy, Hell' by Dante Alighieri - La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno - Canto II (2). Illustration by Gustave Doror lines 70-71: 'I, who now bid thee on this errand forth,/ Am Beatrice.' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940716/the-divine-comedy-hell http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940716/the-divine-comedy-hell.jpg 2008-04-21T13:49:47Z dmcs-940716 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto VI (3): illustration by Gustave Doror lines 49-52 'Thy city, heap'd with envy to the brim,/ Aye, that the measure overflows its bounds/ Held me in brighter days. Ye citizens/ Were wont to name me Ciacco.' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940717/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940717/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:50:08Z dmcs-940717 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto VII (7): illustration by Gustave Doror lines 8-9 'Curst wolf! Thy fury inward on thyself/ Prey, and consume thee!' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940718/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940718/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:50:28Z dmcs-940718 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto IX (9): illustration by Gustave Doror lines 87-89 'To the gate/ He came, and with his wand touch'd it, whereat/ Open without impediment it flew.' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940719/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940719/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:50:53Z dmcs-940719 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto XII (12): illustration by Gustave Doror lines 11-14 'And there/ At point of the disparted ridge lay stretch'd/ The infamy of Crete, detested brood/ Of the feign'd heifer' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940720/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940720/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:51:06Z dmcs-940720 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto XIII (13): illustration by Gustave Doror line 120 ' 'Haste now,' the foremost cried, 'now haste thee, death!' ' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940721/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940721/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:51:20Z dmcs-940721 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto XVIII (18): illustration by Gustave Doror lines 130-132 'Thais this, the harlot, whose false lip/ Answer'd her doting paramour that ask'd,/ 'Thankest me much'' ' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940722/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940722/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:51:35Z dmcs-940722 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto XXI (21): illustration by Gustave Doror lines 50-51 'This said,/ They grappled him with more than hundred hooks.' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940723/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940723/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:51:53Z dmcs-940723 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto XXIII (23): illustration by Gustave Doror lines 117-120 'That pierced spirit, whom intent. Thou view'st, was he who gave the Pharisees/ Counsel, that it were fitting for one man. To suffer for the people.' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940724/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940724/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:52:04Z dmcs-940724 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto XXXIV (34): illustration by Gustave Doror lines 20-21 ' "Lo!" he exclaimed, "lo! Dis; and lo! The place/ Where thou hast need to arm thy heart with strength." ' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940725/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940725/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:52:17Z dmcs-940725 Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, L'Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Hell) - Canto III (3): illustration by Gustave Doror line 76-78 'And, lo! Toward us in a bark/ Comes on an old man, hoary white eld,/ Crying, "Woe to you, wicked spirits!" ' Dante, Italian poet, c. 29 May 1265 - 13/14 September 1321. DorFrench artist, 6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940726/dante-alighieri-la-divina http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940726/dante-alighieri-la-divina.jpg 2008-04-21T13:52:27Z dmcs-940726 Cinderella - illustration from the fairy tale of a Royal footman finding Cinderella's slipper. Modern version by Charles Perrault, French author, 12 January 1628 - 16 May 1703. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940739/cinderella-illustration-from http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940739/cinderella-illustration-from.jpg 2008-04-21T13:54:49Z dmcs-940739 Elinor Brent-Dyer - illustration from the book 'Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School' by the English writer, of a young girl calling for help. Published 1930, from the series of 'Chalet School' series of books. Schoolgirl 1894 - 1969. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940740/elinor-brent-dyer-illustration http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940740/elinor-brent-dyer-illustration.jpg 2008-04-21T13:54:54Z dmcs-940740 Cinderella - illustration from the fairy tale of Cinderella with her two ugly sisters. Modern version by Charles Perrault, French author, 12 January 1628 - 16 May 1703. From 'Old Time Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes', 1931. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940741/cinderella-illustration-from http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940741/cinderella-illustration-from.jpg 2008-04-21T13:55:05Z dmcs-940741 The Diary of a Nobody - illustration of a scene from the book by George and Weedon Grossmith, titled 'I seized her round the waist, and we were silly enough to be executing a wild kind of polka when Sarah entered.' Illustration by Weedon Grossmith. From Pan Books edition, 1946. First appeared in the magazine Punch in 1892. GG: English actor and comic writer, 7 December 1847 - 1 March 1912. WG: English writer, 1852 - 1919. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940748/the-diary-of-a http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940748/the-diary-of-a.jpg 2008-04-21T13:56:44Z dmcs-940748 La Case de l'oncle Tom / Uncle Tom's Cabin - scene from a play based on Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel scene of a slave market taking place. Production July 1901 Thre de la Porte Saint-Martin. HBS: 14 June 1811 - 1 July 1896. Abolition, human rights. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940750/la-case-de-loncle http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940750/la-case-de-loncle.jpg 2008-04-21T13:56:57Z dmcs-940750 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne . Dust jacket / cover Published London, Dean. Adventure travel story. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940772/around-the-world-in http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940772/around-the-world-in.jpg 2008-04-21T13:59:53Z dmcs-940772 Lalla Rookh : An Oriental Romance - illuminated title page for the book by Irish poet and writer Thomas Moore. 28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852. First published 1817. Persian style. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940789/lalla-rookh-an http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940789/lalla-rookh-an.jpg 2008-04-21T14:03:07Z dmcs-940789 The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan' - illustration from the book Lalla Rookh by Irish poet and writer Thomas Moore. The heroine (Lalla Rookh) surrounded by dancing handmaidens with tambourines, anklets with bells, and flowers. Caption reads, 'He sees a group of female forms advance.' 28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852. (First published 1817.) 1861 edition with illustrations by John Tenniel. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940790/the-veiled-prophet-of http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940790/the-veiled-prophet-of.jpg 2008-04-21T14:03:28Z dmcs-940790 The Light of the Haram - illustration from the book Lalla Rookh by Irish poet and writer Thomas Moore. The Enchantress casts a spell with flowers. Caption reads, 'Fill'd with the cool, inspiring smell, the Enchantress now begins her spell.' 28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852. (First published 1817.) 1861 edition with illustrations by John Tenniel. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940791/the-light-of-the http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940791/the-light-of-the.jpg 2008-04-21T14:03:38Z dmcs-940791 Colour cover for adventure book, 'Sunk Without Trace', early 1930s. A boat in a stormy sea with a sailor unconscious on deck. Boys own adventure story > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940801/colour-cover-for-adventure http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940801/colour-cover-for-adventure.jpg 2008-04-21T14:04:57Z dmcs-940801 Charles Dickens 's 'The Pickwick Papers' : portrait of Alfred Jingle. Novel completed in 1837. Illustration by Frederick Barnard (English illustrator 1846-1896) English novelist: 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940803/charles-dickens-s http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940803/charles-dickens-s.jpg 2008-04-21T14:05:16Z dmcs-940803 Oliver Goldsmith 's 'The Vicar of Wakefield' : Mr Burchell rescuing Sophia Primrose. Irish poet and playwright 1730-1774. Artist: Thomas Hearne > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940838/oliver-goldsmith-s-the http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940838/oliver-goldsmith-s-the.jpg 2008-04-21T14:10:21Z dmcs-940838 Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn (nStevenson) - scene from Cranford: Our Society. 1810-1865. Artist: Hugh Thomson. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940839/gaskell-mrs-elizabeth-cleghorn http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940839/gaskell-mrs-elizabeth-cleghorn.jpg 2008-04-21T14:10:27Z dmcs-940839 Children playing with animals, 1923 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940847/children-playing-with-animals http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940847/children-playing-with-animals.jpg 2008-04-21T14:11:30Z dmcs-940847 Charles Dickens 's 'The Pickwick Papers' : the fat boy awake. Illustration by Harold Copping, 1924. English novelist: 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940867/charles-dickens-s-the http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940867/charles-dickens-s-the.jpg 2008-04-21T14:13:00Z dmcs-940867 Charles Dickens 's 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' : Wackford Squeers and the new pupil. English novelist 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Illustration by Harold Copping, 1924. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940868/charles-dickens-s-the http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940868/charles-dickens-s-the.jpg 2008-04-21T14:13:08Z dmcs-940868 The History of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote and the bachiller. Spanish author, 1547-1616. Picaresque adventure. Don Quijote. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940922/the-history-of-don http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940922/the-history-of-don.jpg 2008-04-21T14:17:45Z dmcs-940922 Stephane Mallarm illustration for the French Symbolist poet 's 'L'aprmidi d'un faune', 1876 ( The Afternoon of a Faun) by the French artist Edouard Manet. 19th Century drawing. 18 March 1842 - 9 September 1898. The poem formed the basis of Claude Debussy 's 'Prde 'aprmidi d'un faune' and Vaslav Nijinsky 's ballet L'aprmidi d'un faune. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940951/stephane-mallarm-illustration http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940951/stephane-mallarm-illustration.jpg 2008-04-21T14:20:15Z dmcs-940951 Giovanni Boccaccio' s tale of Griselda from the collection the Decameron. Woodcut from a Florentine edition of the Decameron, dated before 1500. The husband takes the newborn girl to test Griselda's constancy. Italian poet. 16 June 1335 - 21 December 1375 > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940961/giovanni-boccaccio-s-tale http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940961/giovanni-boccaccio-s-tale.jpg 2008-04-21T14:21:11Z dmcs-940961 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's poem 'The Song of Hiawatha'. Portrait related to Hiawatha lines. 'Clad in all their richest raiment, robes of fur and belts of wampum.' Native American. American Indians. Red Indian. Indigenous Peoples of America. American poet, 27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940979/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-s http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940979/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-s.jpg 2008-04-21T14:23:42Z dmcs-940979 Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Illustration for the English poet's poem, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1797), by Patten Wilson. 21 October 1772-25 July 1834. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940992/samuel-taylor-coleridge- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940992/samuel-taylor-coleridge-.jpg 2008-04-21T14:25:36Z dmcs-940992 Charles Dickens ' novel, 'The Chimes' (1844). First Quarter. Portrait of Trotty Veck. . English novelist. 'There's nothing', said Toby, 'more regular in its coming round than dinner-time, and nothing less regular in its coming round than dinner. That's the great difference between 'em.' 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Trotty. Toby Veck. Toby 'Trotty' Veck. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941017/charles-dickens- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941017/charles-dickens-.jpg 2008-04-21T14:29:47Z dmcs-941017 by Arnold Bennett. 1931. Caption reads: The architecture of the Five Towns is an architecture of ovens and chimneys'. AB: English novelist, 27 May 1867 - 27 March 1931. Illustratrion by John Morton Sale. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941470/the-old-wives-tale http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941470/the-old-wives-tale.jpg 2008-04-21T15:42:03Z dmcs-941470 'Peter Pan and Wendy' by James Matthew Barrie. Wendy sewing on Peter Pan's shadow. Title page. JMB: Scottish novelist and dramatist, 9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941472/peter-pan-and-wendy http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941472/peter-pan-and-wendy.jpg 2008-04-21T15:42:43Z dmcs-941472 'Peter Pan and Wendy' by James Matthew Barrie. Peter Pan and Wendy by the side of the Treehouse. Title page. JMB: Scottish novelist and dramatist, 9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941473/peter-pan-and-wendy http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941473/peter-pan-and-wendy.jpg 2008-04-21T15:42:56Z dmcs-941473 'Cranford' by Elizabeth Gaskell. Narrated by the charater Mary Smith. Caption reads: 'We sedulously talked together'. (The ladies of Cranford). EG: English novelist and and short story writer, 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865. Illustration by Hugh Thomson. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941481/cranford http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941481/cranford.jpg 2008-04-21T15:43:27Z dmcs-941481 'Cranford' by Elizabeth Gaskell. Narrated by the charater Mary Smith. Caption reads: 'Don't 'but Martha' me'. (Martha and Mary Smith). EG: English novelist and and short story writer, 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865. Illustration by Hugh Thomson. > Fiction Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941482/cranford http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941482/cranford.jpg 2008-04-21T15:43:33Z dmcs-941482