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.
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.