Gustave Doré

About The Author

An artist who worked across many media, the multi-skilled Gustave Doré remains unequalled as a supremely talented illustrator, whose detailed and imaginative engravings for major works of literature – from Cervantes’s Don Quixote to Dante’s Divine Comedy, and even the Bible – have hugely influenced the way we see many cultural and literary characters and still inspire today.

Books by Gustave Doré

Paradise Lost & Other Poems
By John Milton
Created by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science) / Foreword by Dr. Angelica Duran / Illustrated by Gustave Doré
Alongside the Homeric epic tales, Paradise Lost is one of the greatest works of literature, now in a gorgeous edition from Flame Tree.

Paradise Lost tells of the expulsion from Eden and the war of Heaven that followed, exploring the fall of humanity and the rebellion o...
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The Divine Comedy

Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

By Dante Alighieri
Foreword by Robin Kirkpatrick / Illustrated by Gustave Doré
Dante’s masterpiece of literature is well matched by the peerless art of Gustave Doré. Dante and his guides, Virgil and Beatrice, journey through the cantos in an allegory of the passage of the soul through the Afterlife, with the subtle engraving of Doré’s illustrations perfectly complementing t...
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