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Prelude to a million years Song without words ; Vertigo /
From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in wood...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group (USA),
©2010.
New York : [2010] |
| Series: | Library of America ;
211. |
| Physical Description: |
xxv, 693 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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| Summary: | From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from infancy to a still unrivaled richness of drama, characterization, imagery, and technique. |
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| Physical Description: |
xxv, 693 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781598530810 159853081X 9781598530827 1598530828 |