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 StatementThe main character as the focal center of the cover, surrounded by the subjects on the book (life, death, people, relationships etc) - Roberlan Paresqui
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Artist StatementThe Moon Maid - Roberlan Paresqui
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Artist StatementThe cover shows in a colorful and surrealist way the main character Arsene Lupin how the stories are separated but they all unite around him. - Roberlan Paresqui
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Artist StatementSimple and minimalistic cover focused on the typography. Showing the fox hiding - Roberlan Paresqui
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Artist StatementF. Scott Fitzgerald was the "It" guy for a literary moment. He wrote about himself, his hopes and dreams, his generation. He crashed when the Jazz Age crashed, too....
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Artist StatementVeblen thought about useful objects and conspicuous consumption, and why there is a difference, and what that means. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementCharles Darwin really looked at the finches of the Galapagos Islands. They were different and he thought about why. - Vivian Chang
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Artist Statement Surreslist piece exploring the ego and ID - Roberlan Paresqui
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Artist StatementGood advice if you're gonna fight. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementCandy colored doll house is too small for Barbie. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementJacob grows from a little kid to a young man in splendid England before WW1. In the background, He doesn't notice, but Europe is getting ready for war. -...
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Artist StatementI made a simple pigeon illustration and used a purple "rootabaga" palette and 1970s inspired typography to evoke the spirit of this book of children's stories. - Trevor Messersmith
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Artist StatementThe woof and warp of Puritan society is the framework of the story. She slowly and carefully stitches an "A" onto her dress, symbolic of her state. Needlework takes...
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Artist Statement With this cover I wanted to stay away from the clichés, but bring a new perspective to the clichés of this story. So, I created a digital cover...
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Artist Statement The cover I made is made from nails, wood, paint, and string to create a map, like one of a pirate, because of the child imagination in this...
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Artist StatementFor my Graphic Design class, one of our assignments was to create three different book covers for one story that we have written from this list. I chose Frankinstein...
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Artist StatementFor my Graphic Design class, one of our assignments was to create three different book covers for one story that we have written from this list. I chose Frankinstein...
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Artist Statement I've been a Burroughs fan for quite some time now and when I saw "Tarzan and the Golden Lion" on the list, I knew I had to tackle...
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Artist StatementI created this design using custom type elements and a photo collage I made from my own photographic work (of a woman walking hurriedly through Grand Central Terminal). The...
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Artist StatementThis design uses hand drawn script lettering and an illustrated profile of Virginia Woolf (as a bust of Athena) as its primary elements. - Trevor Messersmith
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Artist Statement Always wanted to create a cover for this book. Wanted it to be completely different than any others I have seen so far. So, I hope I achieved...
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Artist Statement Unfortunately while I love Little Women I don't actually trust it! There's a lot of reactive and reductive ideology hidden inside a really well-written book (it's both so...
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Artist Statement"All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness..." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"The gentle kangaroos...it wasn?t love he felt for them, but a dark, animal tenderness..." - Ed Gaither
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Artist StatementThis design handles science fiction through type and space - custom typography echoing the "moon" of the title. - Trevor Messersmith
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Artist StatementI created this design with the idea of the fox as a mask for the underlying tensions the characters experience in D.H. Lawrence's novel. - Trevor Messersmith
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Artist Statement"Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"The house is a machine for living in." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement The silhouette of Sherlock Holmes is part of the frame with the title in smoke from his pipe. Behind the smoke, as the main body of the cover,...
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Artist Statement"alas we were chaste on earth we ghosts" - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"The sons of rich men are proverbially wild." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"Our course would bring us within about twenty thousand miles of the Moon, and as we neared it I believe that the sight of it was the most impressive...
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Artist Statement"Her chin was pressed down, and his eyes were looking up. They met her eyes. And he knew her."" - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"It was wonderful to awaken amidst it, wonderful to fall asleep to this mysterious and melancholy whispering." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement "They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches." - Ed Gaither
