Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/2008 archive
This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Literature in 2008. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
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The Difficult Lesson (1884), a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
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This selection is from one hundred prints illustrating the Japanese poetry anthology called the Hyakunin Isshu, which was compiled by the poet Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241).
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Joseph Marmette, a Canadian novelist and historian.
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Cover of the first edition of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
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The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
Statue of the Persian poet Ferdowsi on Ferdowsi Square in Tehran, Iran.
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Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring.
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Felbrigge Psalter, the earliest example of an embroidered book in existence.
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Cover of Undine, a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.
Cover of Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский), an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin.
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Cover of The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery.
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Edgar Allan Poe, by W. S. Hartshorn.