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 StatementThis entirely typographic cover shows the interlocking chains that follow Edmond Dantes even after he breaks after prison, that there is no Count of Monte Cristo without the prison...
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Artist StatementEdmond Dantes is sentenced to prison, and spent several years in a dark cell. This book cover conveys what it must have been like to feel hopeless. But, the...
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Artist StatementIn the Count of Monte Cristo, Edmound Dantes goes through a transformation from sailor going to be captain, to unjustly sentenced prisoner, to wealthy count. This book cover conveys...
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Artist Statement Anne Elliott is young and people tries to persuade her about a good marriage. She doesn''t give attention to them. She lost her mother and is just concerned...
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“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Artist Statement "When I was a kid we would grab our poles and ride our bikes to the creek. All day long it was like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer....
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Artist Statement I decided to reinterpret the figure Qin Shi Huang, first great Chinese emperor, who won over almost all the Chinese territories of the age of Sun Tzu: he...
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Artist Statement This a continuous one line drawing of Edgar Allen Poe. It is done in ballpoint pen and idea came from seeing a child's drawing. Ballpoint pen portraits are...
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Artist Statement Growing up I've always been intrigued by the original Grimm's Fairy Tales. Having gone back as an adult to see how many that I missed out on getting...
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Artist Statement I wanted to convey all of the knights of the round table in a classical representation, rather than the fantastical representation that they are so often depicted as....
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Artist StatementConrad wrote a complicated novella about a complicated problem - the imperialism that created Belgian Congo. As a European, and as a human, he is implicated in "the horror."...
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Artist Statement For this campaign I wanted to do a recovery of the classical illustrations by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! As someone who always loved this story growing...
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Artist StatementA very young Aldous Huxley, a bit self-consciously, writes Antic Hay - same initials!. In this novel of ideas, one man can't approach women unless he wears a full...
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Artist StatementJules Verne imagines what might be in the center of the Earth, in 1864. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementPoe wrote strange tales, and created gothic style, science fiction and the detective story. He gets a little Hannibal Lecter with his byline. - Vivian Chang
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Artist Statement Made for a "shotgun" project in Applied 2D Graphics class at Cincinnati State. Assigned by professor Joel Knueven. - Markayla Romohr
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Artist StatementA split portrait of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, when they were young and enmeshed. Because we know how it ends. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementBig Ben tolls out the hours. Mrs. Dalloway and the soldier work towards their destinies - she has a party and he jumps out of a window. She admires...
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Artist Statement I tried to reflect (ha pun) on how White Fang faces under the struggle of who he is; a wolf or a dog. - Vic Berrios
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Artist Statement The image I created centers on a huge, distorted shadow of a man representing Frankenstein's monster. Symbolizing the monster's origin, the shadow stems from a distraught man (Frankenstein)...
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Artist StatementThis great Maxfield Parrish illustration is now part of the public domain, and it still has the magic of strange adventure on foreign seas. - Vivian Chang
