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The Complete MAUS Paperback – Import, 24 November 2003

by Art Spiegelman (Author)
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 11,084 ratings
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2021 is the 35th anniversary of Maus - the million-selling, Pulitzer-winning, father-son memoir about the Holocaust

'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics' - Washington Post

Maus is the harrowing story of the author's parents, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living in Hitler's Europe, and then his father dealing with Art Spiegelman's questions as he explores this past - all drawn with cats and mice. Vividly detailing the unspeakable through the pictorial and diminutive,it blends tragedy and comedy by turns. Against a backdrop of history too large to pacify, Art Spiegelman brilliantly meditates upon the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents.

This is a contemporary classic of immeasurable significance.
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  5. Dimensions
    23 x 16 x 1.79 cm
  6. ISBN-10
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The first masterpiece in comic book history ― New Yorker

One of the clichés about the Holocaust is that you can't imagine it - Spiegelman disproves this theory ― Independent

A brutally moving work of art ― Boston Globe

In the tradition of Aesop and Orwell, it serves to shock and impart powerful resonance to a well-documented subject. The artwork is so accomplished, forceful and moving ― TimeOut

Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics' history: something that actually occurred. Maus is terrifying not for its brutality, but for its tenderness and guilt ― New Yorker

An epic story told in tiny pictures ― New York Times

The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust ― Wall Street Journal

Maus is a book that cannot be put down, truly, even to sleep...when you finish Maus, you are unhappy to have left that magical world and long for the sequel that will return you to it -- Umberto Eco

A remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event ― New York Times Book Review

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in 'drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust' ― New York Times

A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics ― Washington Post

All too infrequently, a book comes along that' s as daring as it is acclaimed. Art Spiegelman's Maus is just such a book ― Esquire

A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution... at one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir, and a comic book. Brilliant, just brilliant -- Jules Feiffer

Maus is a masterpiece, and it's in the nature of such things to generate mysteries, and pose more questions than they answer. But if the notion of a canon means anything, Maus is there at the heart of it. Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect -- Philip Pullman

Spiegelman's Maus changed comics forever. Comics now can be about anything -- Alison Bechdel

Reading [his work] has been an amazing lesson in storytelling ― Etgar Keret

It can be easy to forget how much of a game-changer Maus was. ― Washington Post

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2016 is the 30th anniversary of Maus - the million-selling, Pulitzer-winning, father-son memoir about the Holocaust

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0141014083
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin (General UK); 1st edition (24 November 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141014081
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141014081
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23 x 16 x 1.79 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Kylie Betts
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
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Nicola Tennent
5.0 out of 5 stars Mindblowing
Reviewed in Australia on 12 April 2023
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While I thought I knew a lot about the Holocaust, this is a very different book. Firstly, the drawings are so expressive, and the animal races are so perfectly executed. A tiny line makes a cutting nuance. Then there is the beautiful juxtaposition between the old man now and the young man then. The father's tendency to go off piste, the frustration he causes his son, the pedestrian nature of some of his experience seen through a historical lens, and the real relationship between the son and father. This is the stuff of families - deep love, a feeling you would do anything for them, pangs of tenderness, and total annoyance and frustration (why aren't they different?) The stories from the old man told in snatches and fragments of wispy memory are chilling in the way that they relate to the horrors of the Holocaust, but more than that, the triviality of people just trying to get by, just trying to make the best of a situation they've been presented with. A book that will chase me down at night and one I'll dip back into over and over, I know.
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Daniel Josling
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Survival Story of the Holocaust
Reviewed in Australia on 5 January 2023
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You get a fantastic depiction of the holocaust. There were many things in this book that I had no idea about until after reading it.

It is viewed as one of the best comic books of all time and is definitely a must-read for people who like comics and history.
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Iris Wu
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating way to tell such story
Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2022
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I’m up to Chapter 2 right now. The worst is yet to come but I always feel very heavy and my heart is in pain to keep up. It’s a interesting read and personal story to open a history like this is unique! Good way to not to repeat the tragic is to remember it. Don’t know why American ban this book from students. I also bought Rape of Nanking (the holocaust Japanese did to Chinese) I’m killing myself…
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Neal Salan
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a brilliant work well deserving to be on the reading list for everyone everywhere.
Reviewed in Australia on 17 May 2022
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The work itself is an extraordinary achievement and the hardcover edition is beautiful. It should be required reading for every High School student in the world and for every politician.

Unfortunately, our copy arrived with the back cover split and coming away from the rest of the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a brilliant work well deserving to be on the reading list for everyone everywhere.
Reviewed in Australia on 17 May 2022
The work itself is an extraordinary achievement and the hardcover edition is beautiful. It should be required reading for every High School student in the world and for every politician.

Unfortunately, our copy arrived with the back cover split and coming away from the rest of the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Arrived on time and in good condition
Reviewed in Australia on 24 March 2023
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Camilo
4.0 out of 5 stars it will always be a classic
Reviewed in Australia on 9 July 2021
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If you are starting to get into comics, you'll see this title everywhere. I can see how this could have been a great/ground breaking comic when it was first released. But if you are picking it up around 2019/2020 then it might not blow your mind as much as it did back then. There is a lot more material now that covers the horrible things that happened in Auschwitz so don't go into this book expecting something new. I'm only saying this from the point of view of someone getting into comics, I'm not ignoring the fact that this is a classic. Its like hearing Beethoven, you know its a classic and you appreciate its quality, but its not like you'll be playing it on the background at a house party.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the all time greats
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What more needs to be said? A necessary read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful boxset
Reviewed in Canada on 29 March 2024
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Carolina Barboza Lima
5.0 out of 5 stars Meu filho adorou
Reviewed in Brazil on 23 January 2024
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Fernanda H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Un cómic increible
Reviewed in Mexico on 5 January 2024
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Jamás había llorado tanto con un cómic, una historia increíble, la edición en pasta dura es bastante buena, de buenísima calidad y las hojas también son increíbles. Merece completamente la pena, la mejor compra para empezar el año.
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Karissa Eckert
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing graphic novel, so well done!
Reviewed in the United States on 8 March 2022
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Series Info/Source: This is the complete Maus graphic novel. I got a copy of this as a Christmas Gift.

Thoughts: The dense writing style and heavy lined black and white artwork were a bit intimidating at first but once I got started reading the story I didn’t even notice it or find it hard to read. This story is completely engrossing. Spiegelman does an amazing job of alternating between the past and the present and recounting the intense and sad story of his father living through the Holocaust. What amazed me is he did in a way that was incredibly impactful without ever being too dark.

I was completely engrossed in this book from page one. And I quickly grew to love Maus’s father and his family. I was continually surprised how much of Maus’s father’s survival was because of how resourceful his father was. His father is extremely adaptable and takes on every chance he has to learn a new skill, this (along with quite a bit of luck) is the number one thing that leads to him surviving the nightmare of the Holocaust.

Is this an uplifting book? Not really, it is more of a cautionary tale. Even though his father survives the Holocaust, the effects continue to echo through his life many years later. The people who survived the events of the Holocaust have to live with the Holocaust forever in their minds and this continues to affect their families generations later. So much thought and skill went into telling this story; it was just incredibly well done.

There is some irony to the fact that I asked for this for Christmas and then shortly after it was banned in Texas because of inappropriate content. I don’t know how to tell people this…but the whole Holocaust was inappropriate and it would be really hard to tell an accurate story of what happened without going into some of the violence and death that happened.

Is the violence and death presented in an excessive way in this book? Most definitely not. Discussions of the gas chambers and killing of children in the streets of ghettos are addressed matter of factly. Hiding in piles of dead people’s shoes and witnessing the aftermath of a gas chamber are things that really happened. At the time these people were trying to survive one atrocity after another; the atrocities were fact and they are presented as such in this book. People did what they could to keep themselves and their families safe.

Should you have your five year old read this? Well do you want to explain the Holocaust to your 5 year old? I might hold off for a bit. We talked about the Holocaust with my son in late elementary/early middle school. He actually checked out this very book from his middle school library and had A LOT of questions for us after he read it. They were excellent questions and we had some very good and thoughtful discussions as a family because of this book. This is a incredibly valuable way to learn about the Holocaust. I think it should be available for everyone in middle school and older to read.

My Summary (5/5): Overall I was incredibly impressed with this graphic novel and the amazing job it did blending the past of the Holocaust with the effect it continues to have on people’s day to day lives. I would recommend to middle grade and up readers because the Holocaust is a complicated topic and kids need to be a certain age in order to begin to comprehend cruelty on this scale. Is this book excessively violent or “Inappropriate”? No, not at all. It addresses the topic with excellent candor wrapped into an incredibly engaging story of one man’s survival of these horrific events.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read.
Reviewed in India on 8 November 2023
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Beautiful book. Loved the art and the quality. Delivery was quick too. Bought paperback, cause easy to hold.
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Beautiful book. Loved the art and the quality. Delivery was quick too. Bought paperback, cause easy to hold.
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