Enki Bilal
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Superstar comic artist Enki Bilal reimagines the Louvre as a ghostly place in this series of 22 portraits. The Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, a reclining Christ, an Egyptian bust--these and other works of art are seen through the eyes of their own particular phantom. The motley collection of men, women, and children presented in these vignettes-- a Roman legionary, a muse, a painter, and a German officer, among others--have little in...
3) Immortal
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A floating pyramid has emerged in the skies above, inhabited by ancient Egyptian Gods. They have cast judgment down upon one of their own, stripping him of immortality. Now he must find a human body to inhabit and search for a way to regain his status.
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George Orwell's most celebrated work, '1984', and the prescient vision it contains of a society governed by Big Brother predates the constant monitoring of people and data we are familiar with today by almost 70 years. But his life was every bit as fascinating and forward-looking as his books. Orwell studied at Eton, joined the police in Burma, fought in the Spanish Civil War, fiercely opposed Stalinism, and lived in London's slums while working as...
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"That key moment when a clear-cut split occurs, a mutation, a personal revolt or a large-scale revolution that tips us from one world into another, from one life to an entirely new one, is explored in this innovative anthology. this instant, this momentous change, can be the beginning of a sotry or its end, one's pinnacle or fall: the tipping point" -- page 4 of cover.