

"Classic adventure comics for adults, enjoyable but with depth.

Series winner of the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material. This complexly plotted graphic novel was among Hugo Pratt's most philosophical ruminations on the imagination. Visiting the writer Hermann Hesse while researching alchemists with his old friend Professor Steiner, Corto drinks from the "source of the Alchemy Rose" and becomes immersed in a surreal and dreamlike adventure that involves Klingsor, the quest for the Holy Grail, Death, the Devil, and the Sandman, among others.
