Volume 3 of this critically acclaimed series rounds out Kick’s maniacally ambitious effort to collect graphic adaptations of world literature throughout history by focusing on the twentieth century. Here there is less repetition of authors in favor of casting a wider net through the cultural currents that dominated the literary century and a greater use of excerpts and single-image representations of entire works. This affords the joy of being able to compare, say, Tara Seibel’s surrealist take on Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams with Peter Kuper’s paranoid visualization of Kafka’s fever dreams, or seeing Dan Duncan’s look at Hemingway’s tough-as-nails A Matter of Colour side by side with T. Edward Bak’s look at Hammet’s tough-as-nails The Maltese Falcon, all sandwiched among Yeats, Joyce, Pynchon, Robert Crumb, and Lisa Brown. Although much of the excerpting and wordless adaptations assumes prior knowledge of these classics, all are once again accompanied by Kick’s brief but insightful introductions. Delightfully, women are well represented (though as adapters more than original authors), and the entire project remains an astounding survey of the state of the art form itself.

Heart of darkness / --The awakening / -- The interpretation of dreams / -- The wonderful Wizard of Oz / -- "The new accelerator" / -- "Reginald" / -- Mother / -- "IF--" / -- John Barleycorn / -- "Araby" (from Dubliners) / -- "The metamorphosis" / -- The voyage out / -- "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" / -- "The mowers" / -- "Sea Iris" / -- "A matter of colour" / -- The madman / -- "Hands" (from Winesburg, Ohio) / -- The dreaming of the bones / W.B. Yeats ; art/adaptation by Lauren Weinstein. Cheri / -- The age of innocence / -- "Dulce et decorum est" / -- "The second coming" / -- "The penitent" and "The singing-woman from the wood's edge" / -- "The top" and "Give it up!" / -- "The Negro speak of rivers" / -- "Rain" / -- Ulysses / -- Ulysses / -- "Living on $1,000 a year in Paris" / -- "The emperor of ice-cream" / -- "The hill" / -- Siddhartha / -- "The waste land" / -- The great Gatsby / -- Steppenwolf / -- Lady Chatterley's lover / -- The sound and the fury / -- Letters to a young poet / -- The maltese falcon / Daheill Hammett ; art/adaptation by T. Edward Bak. Brave new world / -- Poker! / -- Black elk speaks / -- "Strange fruit" (a.k.a. "Bitter fruit") / -- Nausea / -- The grapes of wrath / -- Three stories / -- The stranger / -- Animal farm / -- "The heart of the park" / -- Nineteen eighty-four / -- The man with the golden arm / -- "The voice of the hamster" / -- Waiting for Godot / -- "The dancer"/ Gabriela Mistral ; -- illustration by Andrea Arroyo -- Lord of the flies / -- The doors of perception / -- Lolita / -- Four beats ; -- art and design by Tara Seibel -- On the road / Jack Kerouac ; illustration by Yeji Yun. Naked lunch / -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / -- The bell jar / -- Last exit to Brooklyn / -- Diaries / -- The master and margarita / -- One hundred years of solitude / -- In watermelon sugar / -- Gravity's rainbow / -- Crash / -- "I bought a little city" / -- "What we talk about when we talk about love" / -- Blood and guts in High School / -- Blood meridian / -- Foucault's pendulum / -- Wild at heart / -- The famished road / -- Einstein's dreams / -- The wind-up bird chronicle / -- Infinite jest / David Foster Wallace ; illustrations by Benjamin Birdie.