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With this graphic interpretation of the modern classic, which also constitutes a homage to the golden era of the newspaper comic strip, Ulysses can be newly discovered in a delightfully unexpected form.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742234583313,"sku":"NGR9780857429933","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50938468434193,"sku":"CIN0857429930G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52456572682513,"sku":"NIN9780857429933","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53602000109841,"sku":"GOR013158070","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0857429930.jpg?v=1750980966"},{"product_id":"alice-in-sussex-book-nicolas-mahler-9780857429926","title":"Alice in Sussex","description":"A twist on the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style.     Alice is back in Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, who leads her down into his rabbit hole in search of an illustrated edition of H. C. Artmann's Frankenstein in Sussex. Over the course of the novel, Alice repeatedly runs into the Rabbit, who quotes freely from other literary works by the likes of Herman Melville and E. M. Cioran.     Unlike in Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice is not traveling the Wonderland we know. Rather, in Nicolas Mahler's whimsical graphic novel retelling, she is in a house deep beneath the ground. On subsequent floors, she encounters the famous creations of Lewis Carroll: the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, and many others. One after the other, these creatures address the terrors of childhood and youth. It is only when Alice reaches the ground floor of the house that we arrive at the inevitable climax: face to face with Frankenstein's Monster.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742262436113,"sku":"NGR9780857429926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0857429922.jpg?v=1751012341"},{"product_id":"completely-kafka-book-nicolas-mahler-9781805331582","title":"Completely Kafka","description":"The young Franz Kafka has too many fears to name. Mirrors, clothing, his own body, almost everything causes him to fret. How did this 'anxious and small bundle of bones' become one of the world's great writers?  With telling details and sharply minimal illustrations, Nicolas Mahler tells a wickedly funny story of the development of Kafka's genius, offering a tribute that is as playful as it is profound.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49751022272785,"sku":"NGR9781805331582","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50446184087825,"sku":"GOR013955027","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054449623313,"sku":"NIN9781805331582","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326679843089,"sku":"CIN1805331582VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1805331582.jpg?v=1777629012"},{"product_id":"lone-racer-book-nicolas-mahler-9781891830693","title":"Lone Racer","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50393929580817,"sku":"CIN1891830694G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1891830694.jpg?v=1751347156"},{"product_id":"angelman-fallen-angel-book-nicolas-mahler-9781606995341","title":"Angelman: Fallen Angel","description":"\u003cb\u003eHilariously wry full-color super hero satire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eEasily the funniest super-hero comic to come down the pike since Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood's \"Superduperman!,\" \u003ci\u003eAngelman\u003c\/i\u003e is Austrian cartoonist Nicolas Mahler's sardonic take on super-heroes, their fans, the businessmen behind them, the current media obsession with them, not to mention fancy-ass \"Ultimate\" collections of dopey super-hero comics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreated by Korporate Comics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism appalling even by their standards, Angelman's powers (which include empathy and the ability to be a good listener) prove less than adequate to deal with the sinister threat of the insane plastic-surgeon villain Gender Bender -- or for that matter with the fickleness of fashion, the rapacious super-heroine Lady Dentata, the increasingly desperate re-boot attempts by Korporate Comics, his oddly twin-like wife, a disastrously bad movie adaptation that single-handedly brings the vogue for super-hero movies to a screeching halt... all delineated in Mahler's trademarked ultra-minimalism (albeit this time in spectacular color), and with his drier-than-dry wit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncludes a special checklist\/price list of \u003ci\u003eAngelman\u003c\/i\u003e comics, a gallery, and extensive historical and explanatory footnotes by the author, this book will occupy a place of pride on the bookshelf of any comic book geek -- or anyone who just likes hilarious comics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51332244209937,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332246339857,"sku":"CIN1606995340VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1606995340.jpg?v=1751182399"},{"product_id":"in-search-of-lost-time-book-nicolas-mahler-9780857429940","title":"In Search of Lost Time","description":"A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style.     Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important works of French literature-if not the most important. Reading it can be life-changing. Nicolas Mahler's comic is not a retelling of this classic, nor a shortened version of Proust's monumental work. Rather, it is a surprisingly funny graphic novel, comically disrespectful of the celebrated work yet completely permeated by Proustian spirit. Complemented by his clear and sparse illustrations, Mahler's minimal nature of text use is easy on the eye, even for those uninitiated into graphic novels. For long-time fans of graphic novels, it is a perfect entry into a beloved literary classic.     A compact picture stream through time and space, Mahler's In Search of Lost Time is a brilliantly complex house of mirrors replete with Proustian motives and perceptions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53005715931409,"sku":"NGR9780857429940","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780857429940.jpg?v=1767880682"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-nicolas-mahler.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}