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Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/2008 archive

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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.


January 2008


The Difficult Lesson (1884), a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).


February 2008


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).


March 2008


Joseph Marmette, a Canadian novelist and historian.


April 2008


Cover of the first edition of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.


May 2008


The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.


June 2008


Statue of the Persian poet Ferdowsi on Ferdowsi Square in Tehran, Iran.


July 2008


Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring.


August 2008


Felbrigge Psalter, the earliest example of an embroidered book in existence.


September 2008


Cover of Undine, a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.


October 2008


Cover of Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский), an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin.


November 2008


Cover of The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery.


December 2008


Edgar Allan Poe, by W. S. Hartshorn.