Icon and idea

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

1843

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

1508

Don Quijote de la Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1600

Aeneis

Publius Vergilius Maro

1592

Twice-Told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1800

Poetics

Aristotle

1536

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin

1800

Picasso

Pablo Picasso

1926