The Book of Ballads

ISBN: 9780765312150

出版社: St Martins Pr

出版年: 2006-3

页数: 192

定价: $ 16.89

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Illustrated and presented by one of the leading artists in modern fantasy, "The Book Of Ballads" gives us some of the great songs and folktales of the English, Irish, and Scottish traditions, re-imagined in sequential-art form, in collaboration with some of today's strongest fantasy writers. Here is "New York Times" bestselling author Neil Gaiman retelling "The False Knight on the Road"; popular mystery author Sharyn McCrumb re-imagining "Thomas the Rhymer"; acclaimed children's writer Jane Yolen with "King Henry" and "The Great Selchie of Sule Skerrie"; popular novelist Charles de Lint's contemporary re-working of "Twa Corbies"; comics superstar Jeff Smith with "The Galtee Farmer"; Emma Bull's version of "The Black Fox," and much, much more. A finalist for 2005's Eisner Award, "Ballad" is an event in the worlds of fantasy and graphic storytelling alike...