In this dazzling illustrated edition of the instant classic that has sold more than a million
copies award-winning illustrator Levi Pinfold brings Neil Gaiman's bravura rendition of the
Norse gods and their world to life. Bursting off the page with breathtaking full-color art
are tales of fierce battles with giants storied quests for knowledge and the gods in Asgard:
Odin the highest of the high wise daring and cunning Thor Odin's son incredibly strong
yet not the wisest of gods and Loki-son of a giant-blood brother to Odin and a trickster and
unsurpassable manipulator. Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that
takes us from the genesis of the legendary nine worlds to Ragnorak the twilight of the gods
and the rebirth of a new time. Through his epic storytelling and Pinfold's enthralling images
these gods emerge with their fiercely competitive natures their susceptibility to being duped
and to duping others and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions breathing vivid
life into these long-ago myths. "Who else but Neil Gaiman could become an accomplice of the
gods using the sorcery of words to make their stories new?" -Maria Tatar translator and
editor of The Annotated Brothers Grimm "Gaiman brings rakish mischief and severe glamour to
the Norse canon." - The New Yorker "Remarkable. . . . Gaiman has provided an enchanting
contemporary interpretation of the Viking ethos." -Lisa L. Hannett Atlantic "A lively funny
and very human rendition of Thor the thunder god his father Odin and the dark-hearted
trickster Loki (plus countless other gods and monsters)." -Petra Mayer NP
