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Classics in Graphic Form

If you’ve ever had trouble reading a literary “classic,” maybe you’ll want to try one in a graphic novel form. We’ve got graphic adaptions of fiction, nonfiction, and some good collections of works your English teacher would be thrilled to see you read.
Click on the title below to find the book in our online catalog.

Fiction
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (also available as an eBook on hoopla)
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Poe: Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

NonFiction
Anne Frank’s Diary : The Graphic Adaptation
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species : A Graphic Adaptation
The Epic Bible : God’s Story from Eden to Eternity
The Great American Documents. Volume 1, 1620-1830
A People’s History of American Empire : A Graphic Adaptation
The United States Constitution : A Graphic Adaptation

I Want to Read Them All!
The Graphic Canon, Volume 1 : From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons
The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 : From “Kubla Khan” to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Graphic Canon, Volume 3: From The Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest

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