
Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes; The Doll's House; Dream Country [slipcase edition]
by Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch, and The Observer. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman. show more The series has won every major industry award including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award. He writes both children and adult books. His adult books include The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which won a British National Book Awards, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for 2014; Stardust, which won the Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults in 1999; American Gods, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards; Anansi Boys; Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances; and The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, which is a New York Times Bestseller. His children's books include The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; Coraline, which won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards; The Wolves in the Walls; Odd and the Frost Giants; The Graveyard Book, which won the Newbery Award in 2009 and The Sandman: Overture which won the 2016 Hugo Awards Best Graphic Story. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Morpheus; The Sandman; Dream of the Endless; John Dee; Lucifer
- Important places
- The Dreaming
- Epigraph
- "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living ... for the price of wisdom is above rubies."
THE BOOK ... (show all)OF JOB, Chapter 28, verses 12, 13, 18
"D is for lots of things."
John Dee, All Fools' Day 1989. - Dedication
- For Dave Dickson: oldest friend.
Neil Gaiman
To my wife Kathy, my pal Tim, and
to everyone in jail.
Sam Kieth
To friends & lovers. To Sam, Malcolm, and Neil;
may your talents never dim. Y... (show all)ou made working
on this book an indescribable pleasure, To Karen,
Tom and Art (without whom this book would
not have been possible), thanks for the time and
your super-human patience. Special thanks to
Beth, Matte, Sigal, the incomparable Barbara
Brandt (a.k.a. Victoria), Rachel Sean F., Shawn S.,
Mimi, Gigi, Heather, Yann, Brantski, Mai Li,
Berni Wrightson (for Cain & Able) and,
as ever, to Cinamon.
Mike Dringenberg
To Little Malcom.
Malcolm Jones III - First words
- SANDMAN never lived up to my initial expectations.
--Introduction - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Pleasant dreams.
--Afterword - Publisher's editor
- Berger, Karen
- Blurbers
- Davis, Erik
- Original language
- English UK
- Disambiguation notice
- The first three volumes together of the ten-volume sequence of collected editions of the issues of The Sandman 1-75. Please do not combine with the one-volume "Preludes & Nocturnes".
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
- LCC
- PN6728 .S26 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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