Plotted : a literary atlas / by Andrew DeGraff ; with essays by Daniel Harmon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeGraff, Andrew, artist, author.

Harmon, Daniel, author.

Contributor:

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imaginary places.

Geographical myths in literature.

Imaginary places--Maps.

Literary landmarks--Maps.

Literary landmarks.

Imaginary places in literature.

Genre:

Pictorial maps.

Maps.

Physical Description:

126 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Pulp, an imprint of Zest Books, [2015]

Summary:

This wide-ranging collection of maps -- all inspired by literary classics -- offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, Lord of the Flies, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, The Handmaid's Tale, and more.

Contents:

The voyage of Odysseus (from the Odyssey / by Homer)

Elsinore (from The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / by William Shakespeare)

No man is an island (from Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe)

The course of true love (from Pride and prejudice / by Jane Austen)

Ebenezer Scrooge: Time traveler (from A Christmas Carol / by Charles Dickens)

Up from slavery (from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / by Frederick Douglass)

The Pequod and its quarry (from Moby Dick, or, The whale / by Herman Melville)

Route zero (from "A narrow fellow in the grass" / by Emily Dickinson)

Phileas Fogg's incredibly credible circumnavigation (from Around the world in eighty days / by Jules Verne)

Huckleberry Finn's Mississippi River journey (from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain)

An education (from "A report to an academy" / by Franz Kafka)

Infinite intelligence (from "The library of Babel" / by Jorge Luis Borges)

Converging paths (from "The Lottery" / by Shirley Jackson)

Journey to nowhere (from Invisible man / by Ralph Ellison)

The waiting room (from Waiting for Godot / by Samuel Beckett)

Flannery O'Connor's family vacation (friom "A good man is hard to find" / by Flannery O'Connor)

The wrinkled time continuum (from A wrinkle in time / by Madeleine L'Engle)

The warrens (from Watership Down / by Richard Adams)

Those who leave and those who stay (from "The ones who walk away from Omelas" / by Ursula K. Le Guin).

Notes:

2015 Booklist Editor's Choice/Adult Books for Young Adult.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781936976867

1936976862

OCLC:

898424437