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 StatementA typographic depiction of the garden, with the robin which led to its discovery. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementA typographic depiction of the main character\'s eventual disfigurement. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementThe design surreally depicts a doorway and a key to the main character\'s personality, which is viewed differently by those who knew him. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementThe design abstractly depicts lightning in the scientific reanimation of life. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementThe illustration depicts turn of the century Dubliners. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementThe design alludes to the main character\'s nonconformity to \"The American Dream\", as well as his profession in real estate. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementThe illustration alludes to various scenes in the book -- happy and sad -- involving water. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementA typographic depiction of war. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementâThis hobble of being alive is rather serious, donât you think so?â â Thomas Hardy — Karl Orozco
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Artist StatementThe unraveling of the man. — Eldo Mathew
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Artist StatementI made my book cover using Adobe Photoshop CS6. Using different tools and a lot of thought, I created an illusion that told a story within the picture. I...
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Artist Statement* Hi I saw this title on the list but now I can\'t find the site. Now uploading it I\'ve just realised that it is not included. Maybe it...
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Artist Statement\"I wish someone would make my story into a sweater.\" -Charles Dickens* *not really, but I\'m sure he\'d be cool with it — Charles Thompson
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Artist StatementI read Anne of Green Gables when I was in 6th grade, and remember thinking that Anne\'s puffed sleeves were REALLY COOL. I wanted to include a picture of...
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Artist StatementA stylized representation of Dracula, rendered in a monochromatic palette. — George Harbeson
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Artist Statement\"I really donât know,\" the old lady brought out hesitatingly, \"you see Iâve never sold the dead before.\" — Ed Gaither
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Artist StatementI wanted to hint at the decaying decadence and feeling anonymous and uprooted. Sitting on a standing horse is generally a brief silence before moving. I also believe the...
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Artist StatementUsing period references, but without being to direct, I tried to create a sense of the novel without really giving it away. — Eben Haines
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Artist StatementThe original art for this cover is a drawing I made using graphite, acrylic, oil, and beeswax. Pulling from nineteen 20s imagery, and using very sparse text, I was...
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Artist StatementThis work was created to reflect an underlying element involved within the story of \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\". The design focuses on the secondary character, Glinda the Good...
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Artist StatementThis was one of those books that made an impression on me in school. The hand print represents the desperate bloodied soldiers in the dirt. The hole in the...
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Artist Statementone not of a set — Nick Fairbank
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Artist Statementone of a set — Nick Fairbank
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Artist Statementone not of a set — Nick Fairbank
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Artist Statementone of a set — Nick Fairbank
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Artist Statementone not of a set — Nick Fairbank
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Artist Statementone of a set — Nick Fairbank
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Artist StatementAnother \"one-shot\" but this one has a special cool marbling that comes when oil and acrylic paint fail to connect. This is especially satisfying and #1 of the last...
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Artist StatementThis is another painting done in \"one shot\" after careful selection of colors and getting them into a bowl separately. The Secret gardens that are so spiritual and sensual...
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Artist StatementThis piece is made of only white paint glue, and flotsam and jetsam found on Highland beach, Florida. texture is realized via sand and dried seaweed. The coconut is...
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Artist StatementThis was an expression painted about a month after my father died. I rarely let one small blob take over a piece, but in this case, it was done....
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Artist Statement... — Diana Polanco
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Artist StatementâGwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?â...
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Artist StatementCan you use the other one I sent he other day Harriet Beecher Stowe gives so much insight into nuanced and complicated characters both for and against slavery. Character...
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Artist Statement For this design, the themes of enlightenment and the beautiful geography of India begged to be highlighted, so that\'s what I focused on. I depicted the most important...
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Artist Statement... — Dimitri Fisher
