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“This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy collegian . . . and any adult who wishes for greater mastery of the subject. . . . Mullins leav[es] readers with an expansive, no-regrets appreciation of art and the human story.”

—Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal

“Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness,’ that ‘joyful eagerness’ for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova—and reading about him.”

—Gregory Dowling, Wall Street Journal

“Franz Kafka’s drawings are neither ‘scribblings’ (as he called them) nor illustrations meant as mere accompaniments to text . . . Kafka saw pictures and words as not complementary but independent, even irresolvable. The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves.”

—Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review

“Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles.”

—Carlos E. Cortés, University of California, Riverside

A resplendent celebration and journey into the imaginative world of Guo Pei, China’s first couturier and one of the world’s most innovative fashion designers.