Coinciding with the centenary of the publication of Joyce’s Ulysses, this show at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino (15 January–2 May) considers how novelists and their readers have mapped out fictional worlds. Highlights include one of Joyce’s typescript drafts, Lewis Carroll’s 1876 edition of The Hunting of the Snark, Robert Louis Stevenson’s maps from Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and a board game from the 1890s inspired by the writing of Nellie Bly. Find out more from the Huntington’s website.
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First edition of Ulysses, printed 1922. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Round the World with Nellie Bly game board (1890), McLoughlin Bros. Courtesy Jay T. Last. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens., San Marino
“Shamus Town” The Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Los Angeles, the Wonder City of America (2014), Loren Latker. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens., San Marino
Detail of a map of Treasure Island, from Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883).