Story Without Words (French: Histoire sans paroles: 60 images dessinées et gravées sur bois), is a wordless novel of 1920 by Flemish artist Frans Masereel.
In 60 captionless woodcut prints the story tells of a man who strives to win the love of a woman.
[1] The book was first published in Geneva in 1920 under the French title Histoire sans paroles: 60 images dessinées et gravées sur bois.
A German edition from Kurt Wolff appeared in 1922 under the title Geschichte ohne Worte: 60 Holzschnitte.
[3] In black-and-white, captionless woodcut images, Masereel places the woman to the left in each composition, where her reaction to her wooer's attempts to impress her are displayed in her facial expression, sometimes favourable and sometimes not.