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Description

V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first... read more

Memorable Quotes

  • “Justice is meaningless without freedom.”
    V

First Sentence

Good evening, London. It's nine o'clock and this is the voice of fate broadcasting on 275 and 285 in the medium wave...it is the fifth of the eleventh, ninteen-ninety-seven.

Glossary

  • anarchy: a state of society in which government does not exist and human beings live in voluntary association without coercion or hierarchy

Errata

The story takes place after a nuclear holocaust - something which the author did not realize at the time that human beings would not likely survive.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Alan Moore (Author)
  2. David Lloyd
 

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Books That Influenced This Book

   
  • 1984
  • The Magic Faraway Tree
  • The Enchanted Wood
  • Brave New World
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  • Judge Dredd
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Batman: The Killing Joke

Books Influenced by This Book

   
  • Watchmen

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