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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Book – Faeries (Froud/Lee)

Book – Faeries 
Authors  & illustrators : Brian Froud & Alan Lee
Score: 8/10
Year: 2002 ; 25th anniversary edition for the 1977 original work
Publisher: Pavilion
ISBN 1-86205-558-0
Pages not numbered (216p) 
Language: English 
Size : 21,2X1,3x30,4 CM 

Both Brian Froud and Alan Lee added introductions for this 25th anniversary edition of their 1977 original book, exploring the world of fairies in myth, folk & legends, presenting their combined talents and nearly 200 sketches and drawings, in color or in black & white, of all sizes, in this beautiful art book.

As specified above, it is a rather big book, in soft-cover. 


It is presented as if the world of Fairies and rules about warding off their harmful, dangerous aspects, as well as how to properly thank them for rendered services as if all of it was a real world, with real folk. 

As a reader and viewer, it's not always clear who composed or drew a particular piece, although many can be inferred. 
Fonts vary a lot and include semi-cursive text which appears almost hand-written, which were at times difficult for me to decipher. 

Faeries was enjoyable overall, but I must warn parents as to content (some nudity, some grotesque art, and some horrible descriptions of acts done by fairy-creatures).  
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