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Richard Appignanesi Book order
Richard Appignanesi is an author and editor known for his successful comic book series aimed at young readers. His work showcases a talent for adapting classic literary works and themes into visually engaging formats, thereby making complex literature accessible to a new generation. He specializes in manga adaptations of Shakespearean plays, preserving the essence of the originals while enhancing their comprehension for contemporary audiences. His approach highlights the power of visual storytelling and its potential for interpreting and popularizing literary classics.







- 2023
- 2014
Introducing Graphic Guide Box Set - Why Am I Here?, 3 Vols.
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
The box set to get you through those long dark nights of the soulcontains Existentialism,Sartre, and Camus.
- 2013
Park
- 154 pages
- 6 hours of reading
The Park is a delicate examination of how anger, repression and powerlessness can overwhelm even the most logical and well-intentioned person in a confusing modern world.
- 2012
Based on his most famous case study - that of Russian aristocrat,Sergei Pankejeff - Sigmund Freud recounts the history of anobsessional neurosis. Pankejeff's troubling dream of a walnut tree full of white wolves earned him the title of 'The Wolf Man'. Pankejeff is one of five clinical case histories from which Freud extrapolated his theories of transference, the Oedipus complex, super-ego and psychosexual development. Freud's now classic psychoanalytic writing blurred the boundary between science and literature, which continues to provoke fierce debate to this day.
- 2009
Close to Home is the catalogue of an exhibition of lens-based work by a group of eight artists from across South East Europe. The exhibition explores themes of migration and displacement as part of the wider agenda being addressed by the British Council project Living Together. One of the underlying aims of the exhibition is to begin an investigation into the impact of certain migrant communities on a contemporary society that remains largely unaware of their existence and how these communities adapt to new landscapes and evolve within new social structures. The exhibition was previewed in London in March 2008 and launched in Belfast in May 2008 as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, before embarking on an eight-country tour to the cities of Sofia, Tbilisi, Nicosia, Thessaloniki, Yerevan, Bucharest and Krakow, the exhibition's last destination in March 2009.
- 2009
King Lear
- 134 pages
- 5 hours of reading
This manga version of King Lear is set during the era of the Last of the Mohicans - circa 1759, during a crucial time of invasion and displacement along the American frontier. Lear is a venerated Mohican chieftain entering his final days. His elder daughters, Regan and Goneril - the evil pairing - are the more Westernised; Cordelia, with the looks of an Indian princess, is the traditionalist. In this unique interpretation of Shakespeare's tragic tale, a mountaintop snowstorm makes for a dramatic backdrop where savage torture and plentiful scalpings make for bloody action.
- 2009
The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.
- 2009
YA. Graphic Novel. Latest title in this series of graphic novel adaptations of the works of Shakespeare, sympathetically abridged and adapted, and with cutting-edge manga artwork by Patrick Warren.
- 2008
- 2008
Notes on the story, language, construction, and background accompany the text of the play about the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.



