The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. They do this by proactively collaborating with partners in the field to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to broaden digital access to information. Recovering The Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original book covers for some of the greatest works in the public domain, where anyone can contribute.
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Artist Statement I love reading because sometimes I want to escape from reality and it allows me to do that, but when I want to delve deep into reality, books...
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Artist Statement I actually have this old notebook where I write favorite quotes from books I read and I have like 12 pages filled with favorite P&P quotes. It’s my...
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Artist Statement For this cover, I wanted to design something classic and romantic, but a cover that reflected his writing style. That's why you'll definitely see a mixture of thin...
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Artist Statement I made this book cover by using a manual process. I watercolored the hills and put a black path with a micron pen. The photographed the painting and...
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Artist Statement I designed the cover the way it is, because I've always liked simplistic covers on books. I wanted to create a cover that every reader could imagine their...
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Artist Statement I made a design for the cover based on broadside posters from the time period using Adobe illustrator. I chose this design because I think it really catches...
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Artist Statement This cover relates to the story with the elements of the map and the type during this time period of the story. - Taylor Wiens
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Artist Statement I created this version of Around The World In 80 Days based off the importance of time throughout the story with a large clock and type that references...
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Artist StatementI decided to design this book cover because it wasn't one that had been designed for often and it was one of the books on the list that I...
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Artist StatementI wanted to magnify an element of the book that is rarely or shown little in previously designed covers that has a significant role in the story. I chose...
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Artist StatementI wanted to magnify an element of the book that is rarely or shown little in previously designed covers that has a significant role in the story. I chose...
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Artist StatementI picked The Lost Continent because I had not read or heard of it before, and it had an intriguing plot synopsis. I found the book to be rather...
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Artist StatementI have always been fascinated with the stars and this design is a nod to the quote "Second star to the right and straight on til morning". — Dominic...
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Artist Statement"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever...
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Artist Statement"To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface;...
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Artist Statement"It's a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"'Alan,' I cried, 'I can stand no more of this.'" — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it...." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"And that is best of all, Ceddie,—it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived—even ever so little better,...
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Artist Statement"To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"She had a new feeling, the feeling of danger; on which a new remedy rose to meet it, the idea of an inner self or, in other words, of...
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Artist Statement"Everything had something behind it: life was like a long corridor with rows of closed doors." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"'I am what I am, and intend to be it,' for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?" — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"You remind me of a smoked cigarette." — Ed Gaither
