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 StatementEmerald City and the famous yellow brick road: the inspiration for the book cover. I used the colors and did more of a color blocking design. Along with that,...
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Artist StatementI wanted to design something that represented movement and chaos, but with a clean and simple design. I feel the design represents the theme of the book without making...
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Artist StatementSince the book is about the mysterious "woman in white", I wanted to make a figure that represented her, yet not giving away her identity. Additionally, I thought it...
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Artist StatementMy main focus was to make a crown. Since the story focuses on Russian nobility, I wanted the cover give the perspective reader(s) an idea of its' major theme....
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Artist StatementI made the title "War & Peace" likes a scale. The reason I did that because War causes a lot of damages to the country. When war starts, there...
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Artist StatementI chose Henry James' The Turn of the Screw because it seems to particularly languish in poorly-designed tropes, particularly the trope of a stock image of a governess. There...
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Artist StatementThe shape of the words Moby Dick is the form of a whale. — Dustin Axline
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Artist StatementI designed my piece to mimic how dark and boarder line abstract the stories are within the book. — Colin Immesoete
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Artist Statementan allegory of humanity’s progression from nature to civilization — Charles Thompson
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Artist Statement“To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest,...
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Artist Statement"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be...
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Artist Statement"There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery,...
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Artist Statement"I want to go about like the light-footed goats." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness" — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind...
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Artist Statement"For an instant I was dumbfounded." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend." — Ed Gaither
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Artist StatementBook cover design based on Gustave Dore's rendition of Lucifer at the bottom of the pit of hell in Alighieri's epic. The cover was made for the 50x50 Missouri...
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Artist StatementThis is one of Amanda's favorite childhood stories. The cover was made for the 50x50 Missouri exhibit hosted at the Olin Library in Washington University in St. Louis back...
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Artist StatementMinimal and modern Buddha in muted tones. Vector illustration. — Meredith Watson
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Artist StatementModern and minimal vector illustration — Meredith Watson
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Artist StatementSimple and minimal vector illustration — Meredith Watson
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Artist StatementI wanted to keep it simple and modern yet still reflect the roaring 20s — Meredith Watson
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Artist StatementI used acrylic paint. The concept of my book cover is the battle between good and evil, which is also the main theme of the Grimm's Fairy Tales. The...
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Artist StatementI played off of the optical illusions that show two faces depending on how you look at it. I wanted this cover to be relatively minimalistic, but to reveal...
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Artist StatementI recently re-read Uncle Tom's Cabin with my book club. We remarked on how the issues addressed are still important and current. I was inspired by the book's early...
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Artist Statement I found this photo of Mary Pickford and it was so beautiful I had to do something with it. — Marie Mundaca
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Artist StatementThis is essentially a homage to the cover of the novel The Portable Veblen: A Novel by Elizabeth McKenzie, a book about a bright underachieving woman who is trying...
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Artist StatementI used Sir Thomas Lawrence's painting of actress Elizabeth Farren (c. 1790). I was drawn to the melancholy clouds, but the way the trees part, bringing the viewer into...
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Artist StatementA major theme in the novel is that enlightenment can only be achieved through the full examination of human experience. Siddhartha recrosses his path along the river through his...
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Artist StatementInspired by minimalist design philosophy, this cover conveys the savage energy that Dracula innately possesses through the use of fully saturated colors, highlighted by the piercing of innocence of...
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Artist StatementThe Unique and unusual illustration and book cover for Kafka's classic. — Wojciech Kasprowicz
