Literary Art and Illustration – Page 190 – Images and Thoughts to Inspire Your Intellect and Infuse Your Imagination!

Henderson The Rain King, by Saul Bellow (I) – March, 1972 (1958) [Bill Preston]

Here is the first of “two takes” on Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King.

This post illustrates Viking Press’ 1972 paperback edition of Bellow’s novel, with cover art by Bill Preston. You can view Roy Ellsworth’s strikingly different 1983 cover art – combining elements of symbolism, humor, and irony – here.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder – November, 1927 [Mary Drevenstedt] [Revised post]

This blog post (my first blog post, from August of 2016) displays the cover, and Mary Drevenstedt’s interior illustrations, for the first (1927) edition of Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

You can view cover art for paperback editions of the novel here.

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