Lineages
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Bring any book to the centre: what it draws on is to its left, what draws on it to its right.
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Bring any book to the centre: what it draws on is to its left, what draws on it to its right.
Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer, AD 1979
Open the bookNo later great works in our collection draw on it yet.
Of its time
Every line in the atlas, by place or by time. Tap a work to bring it to the centre.