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 StatementI hand drew the text and edited it in illustrator and photoshop. I wanted the letter "R" to look like the layers of the earth to emphasize the "center...
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Artist StatementI read this book a while back and when I thought of a cover I wanted to convey the image of Nora as the perfect doll wife, always under...
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Artist StatementUtilizing traditional and digital techniques brings more freedom to my work. In this piece I used india ink, water color, and Adobe Illustrator to compose it. I wanted to...
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Artist StatementWith the hit musical "Hamilton" on the rise, it's about time the man's work got some recognition of its own. Pen and ink on paper, edited in Photoshop —...
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Artist StatementI created my cover inspired by the cheshire cat. I split his face to add a whimsical feeling and used part of the cat-ear shape within my lettering to...
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Artist StatementOut of the list of books provided, The Jungle Book stood out to me. There are characters created with vibrant personalities, the setting is based off of the beautiful...
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Artist StatementFor my cover I wanted to get a classic closeup on the phantom and Christine, depicting a dramatic and authentic feel for the story — Chandler Johnson
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Artist StatementFor Inferno, I decided to play off of the three headed devil in the book. I just have the teeth showing so that there is a mystery to it...
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Artist StatementThis cover is purely symbolic of the title, but I wanted to make it a very abstract interpretation. I liked the way this used a familiar location (Tokyo's Shibuya...
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Artist StatementI wanted to convey a sense of foreboding and drama in my interpretation of this book. I used a very graphic image, to simplify the composition, and one in...
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Artist StatementI wanted to present the iconic "Sherlock Holmes" symbols in a way that would be unexpected. This cover reflects my personal style of graphic design with a humorous twist...
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Artist StatementUsing multiple different layers I wanted to give this cover the feel of Sleepy Hollow and how my mind created the world that I read. The type I used...
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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
