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.
The Difficult Lesson (1884), a painting by
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
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).
Joseph Marmette, a Canadian novelist and historian.
Cover of the first edition of
The Jungle Book by
Rudyard Kipling.
The Irish playwright
George Bernard Shaw.
Statue of the Persian poet
Ferdowsi on Ferdowsi Square in
Tehran, Iran.
Rachel Carson, author of
Silent Spring.
Felbrigge Psalter, the earliest example of an embroidered book in existence.
Cover of
Undine, a novel by
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.
Cover of
Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский), an unfinished novel by
Alexander Pushkin.
Cover of
The Story Girl by
L.M. Montgomery.
Edgar Allan Poe, by W. S. Hartshorn.
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.
The Difficult Lesson (1884), a painting by
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
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).
Joseph Marmette, a Canadian novelist and historian.
Cover of the first edition of
The Jungle Book by
Rudyard Kipling.
The Irish playwright
George Bernard Shaw.
Statue of the Persian poet
Ferdowsi on Ferdowsi Square in
Tehran, Iran.
Rachel Carson, author of
Silent Spring.
Felbrigge Psalter, the earliest example of an embroidered book in existence.
Cover of
Undine, a novel by
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.
Cover of
Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский), an unfinished novel by
Alexander Pushkin.
Cover of
The Story Girl by
L.M. Montgomery.
Edgar Allan Poe, by W. S. Hartshorn.