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Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archives) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gustave Dore
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 133085
Media: Paperback
Edition: New
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 8.9 x 0.2
ISBN: 0486277194
Dewey Decimal Number: 769.92
EAN: 9780486277196
ASIN: 0486277194
Publication Date: September 22, 1993
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Product Description
This volume presents superb royalty-free reproductions of all 50 plates Dore created for a 19th-century edition of "Paradise Lost." Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from Heaven, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the nine-day fall of Lucifer's legions to Hell, the Creation, the temptation of Eve and the Flood.
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 Bad Printing Quality February 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
well, this book has my favorite drawings of gustave dore , but the priting quality is really bad , you better get pictures from somewhere. or may be look for another published version may be ...
 A necessary companion to the Literary Masterpiece February 23, 2003
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Dore, known perhaps best for his woodcuts of Dante's "Divine Comedy", was not only a fantastic illustrator, but a prolific one as well, producing scores of woodcuts for great literature, including "The Holy Bible" and "Orlando Furioso". Before there were movies, a person could look at these pictures for motion, excitement, and dramatic storytelling.
This is a necessary companion to "Paradise Lost", a great work in its own right. Dore's illustrations clarifies, vivifies, and expands on the reading experience. The pictures are brilliantly reproduced here at a small cost to the consumer. The book stands alone for great artwork and is worth the minimal price.
Stunning Display of Woodcut Artistry December 30, 2001
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
It is amazing how such complex woodcuts could be done! Some of these are used in books. An example is the book cover illustration of the book "Raising Hell: A Concise History of the Black Arts and Those Who Dared Practice Them" (ISBN: 0399522387).If you like to see high standard of woodcuts, get this book.
An exceptional gathering of his finest work! February 27, 1999
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is with out a doubt the best of Gustave's biblically inspired works. His mastery is proven by creating a visually stunning and poetic world of a time long ago but not forgotten. It's hard to remember what I used to imagine when I thought of the Garden of Eden or the descension of the fallen angels must've been like prior to reading this work.
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