Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 2D Ed. (Paperback)

from michaelg16

When I was in fifth grade I handed in a book review of Moby-Dick and got an A. Obviously I hadn't read the actual text at that age but I had read the Classics Illustrated version many times so I was confident that I could review the book and I plunged ahead. The teacher never said anything -thoug...

from LA12Hernandez

I always loved Classic Illustated and learning the stories behind the pen was facinating. This book had lots of great pictures and graphics with plenty of information about the people who brought the Classics to life. Now I'll have to read the first edition.

from dds1981

This book was great fun for a comic nerd like me. Classics Illustrated were among some of the first comics I read, although I learned by reading this book that I was on the very tail end of the phenomenon and most of my reads were reprints of earlier editions. The publishing history was interesti...

from TomKitten

Comic books were just one of many forbidden fruits of my childhood - along with rock 'n' roll records, cleats on heels and any hair style longer than a crew cut. Oddly enough, my brothers and I were allowed to have comic books during those blissful ten days we spent at the lake cottage every summ...

from jburlinson

In 1979, Christopher Lasch wrote The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations , in which he argures that post-war America has produced a personality-type consistent with clinical definitions of "pathological narcissism". This pathology is not akin to everyday nar...