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The Caterpillar is a character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a novel that is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. This illustration is noted for its ambiguity; the Caterpillar's head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin, or being the head end, with two legs, of an actual caterpillar.
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The Cowardly Lion is a character in L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This illustration, from the book's first edition, depicts the book's protagonist, Dorothy Gale — accompanied by the Tin Woodman, Toto, and the Scarecrow — meeting the lion for the first time.
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Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. Widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and a masterpiece of world literature, it is divided into three parts; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. This scene, from Inferno, depicts Charon approaching to ferry souls across the subterranean river Acheron.
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Majnun Layla ("Possessed by madness for Layla") is a love story that originated as a short poem in ancient Arabia, and was later expanded and popularized by 12th century Iranian poet Nizami Ganjavi. This illustration depicts the lovers Layla and Majnun fainting from extreme passion and pain after seeing each other after years of forced separation.
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Scientific romance is an archaic term for the genre science fiction, and now refers to the science fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, primarily that of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle. This illustration, from the french book Le Vingtième Siècle ("the Twentieth Century"), depicts a nineteenth-century conception of life in the twentieth century.
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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a didactic moral fable written in the 1860s by Reverend Charles Kingsley. Its themes include Christian redemption, support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and opposition to child labor. This illustration depicts the protagonist, having been newly transformed into a water baby, learning from a salmon and his wife of the existence of other water babies.
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The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott; a member of his Waverley Novels series. Set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, it tells a tragic love story that Scott indicated was based on an actual incident. This illustration depicts the two lovers, Lucy Ashton and Edgar Ravenswood, the Ashton family's political enemy.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a humorous novel by Laurence Sterne, published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767. Written as a biography of the fictional titular character, its style is marked by digression and amplification. This illustration depicts two characters puffing a hookah-like cannon-firing device.
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The Hunting of the Snark is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking Glass. This illustration depicts some of the members of the crew of the vessel trying to hunt the titular Snark.
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Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Widely considered one of the greatest works of fiction ever published, it follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. This illustration depicts Quijano before he begins his quest.
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A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys is a children's book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he rewrites myths from Greek mythology. This illustration is from his retelling of the story of King Midas, who wished for and was granted the ability to turn everything he touched with his hands into gold. In Hawthorne's retelling, among the things Midas turned to gold was his daughter.
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"The Queen of Hearts" is a poem based on the characters found on playing cards, by an anonymous author, that was first published in The European Magazine in April 1782. Published alongside three other poems, each on a different suit, "The Queen of Hearts" proved the most popular, and became well known as a nursery rhyme. This illustration is from republication in a 1901 edition of Mother Goose.
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Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated son of an English merchant who travels to the North of England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt, encountering the title character, Rob Roy MacGregor, along the way. This illustration depicts Rob Roy (left) delivering a message to the narrator, which results in the narrator becoming involved in the Jacobite risings.
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Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals the societal issues of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. This illustration, one of the two earliest illustrations of the book, depicts Elizabeth speaking with her father about Mr. Darcy, who would later in the novel become her romantic interest.
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"The Canterville Ghost" is a popular short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887. A humorous work, this illustration depicts the titular ghost falling victim to a prank by two occupants of the house that he is haunting.
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. This illustration, which depicts a giant described in Canto I, Stanza 39, is the frontispiece to an 1825 printing of the book.
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Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith is a play by W. S. Gilbert, styled "A Three-Act Drama of Puritan times". The play focuses on Dan'l, a superstitious blacksmith that raises a girl left in his house by a pair of thieving army deserters. This illustration depicts Hermann Vezin portraying the titular character in the play's first run.
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The Three Little Pigs is a fable featuring anthropomorphic pigs who build three houses of different materials. A big bad wolf is able to blow down the first two pigs' houses, made of straw and wood respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house, made of bricks. This illustration, from a 1904 adaptation of the fable, depicts the wolf demolishing the house of straw.
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Oenone or Œnone is a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1829. The poem describes the Greek mythological character Oenone and her witnessing of the events in the life of her lover, Paris, as he is involved in the events of the Trojan War. This illustration of the titular character is from the 1901 collection The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle, and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. Though not explicitly described, he is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg. This illustration was the cover of a 1904 telling of the story.
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Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. This illustration accompanied the chapter "The Knights of the Joyous Venture".
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"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294). It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world, its traditional use being to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight. This illustration accompanied a 1841 printing of the poem.
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The Song of Los, written in 1795, is one of William Blake's epic poems, known as prophetic books. The poem consists of two sections, "Africa" and "Asia". In the first section Blake catalogues the decline of morality in Europe, while the second section consists of Los urging revolution. This illustration of Urizen presiding over the decline of morality served as the work's frontispiece.
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Guy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. It tells the story of Harry Bertram, the son of the Laird of Ellangowan, who is kidnapped at the age of five, and follows the fortunes and adventures of Harry and his family in subsequent years. This illustration depicts several of the main characters in a ruined hamlet, Dernclough, which serves as a recurring location in the story.
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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. In this illustration from a 1901 edition, one of the main characters confronts another about a stolen bracelet, later the subject of an attempted blackmail.
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Water Margin is a novel attributed to Shi Nai'an. Considered one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, the novel tells the story 108 outlaws that gather to form a sizable army, are granted amnesty by the government, and are sent on campaigns to resist foreign invaders and suppress rebel forces. This woodblock print depicts Yang Lin, the hero of the novel.
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