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A review by sarabearian
From Hell by Alan Moore
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This amazing, but challenging, graphic novel has indeed been challenged and even banned in Australia for several weeks in 2000. Moore, the author of such classic novels as Watchmen and V for Vendetta, takes on the story of Jack the Ripper, basing his work both on historical fact and artistic license. His theory of the murderer being a well-respected physician, Sir William Gull, charged by Queen Victoria to protect Prince Albert Victor's reputation, after fathering a child with a shop girl, Annie Crook is intriguing, though not widely accepted by historians. Readers are plunged into a world of Freemasonry, prostitution, poverty, privilege and madness, as Sir William, himself insane, goes overboard in his mission, slaughtering four women who try to blackmail an artist (and friend of the Prince) with threats of exposing the existence of the illegitimate child with royal connections. It's a slow read in parts, but fascinating, as Moore connects the crimes of the 1880s with visions of the horrors of the new century to come. – Louisa A.
Banned & Challenged Books | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues
This amazing, but challenging, graphic novel has indeed been challenged and even banned in Australia for several weeks in 2000. Moore, the author of such classic novels as Watchmen and V for Vendetta, takes on the story of Jack the Ripper, basing his work both on historical fact and artistic license. His theory of the murderer being a well-respected physician, Sir William Gull, charged by Queen Victoria to protect Prince Albert Victor's reputation, after fathering a child with a shop girl, Annie Crook is intriguing, though not widely accepted by historians. Readers are plunged into a world of Freemasonry, prostitution, poverty, privilege and madness, as Sir William, himself insane, goes overboard in his mission, slaughtering four women who try to blackmail an artist (and friend of the Prince) with threats of exposing the existence of the illegitimate child with royal connections. It's a slow read in parts, but fascinating, as Moore connects the crimes of the 1880s with visions of the horrors of the new century to come. – Louisa A.
Banned & Challenged Books | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues