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 StatementLove is always a lesson in duality. — C A Speakman
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Artist StatementIn Jane Eyre, fire symbolizes Jane\'s strengths and her personality while the red room she is forced into during childhood is symbolic of the restrictions that are forced upon...
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Artist StatementAcrylic on canvas — Candy Carver
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Artist StatementThis piece was created using masking and layering techniques in the medium of acrylic on canvas. — Candy Carver
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Artist StatementI chose to draw and paint Piz Corvatsch, the iconicpeak visible from Nietzsche\'s Summer residence in the Swiss Town of Sils im Engadin. Whereas Nietzsche climbed it in Summer,...
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Artist StatementPeople always scoff and âeep!â at the sight of a city rat, but they have always been inspiring to me. City rats know the ins and the outs; the...
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Artist StatementI have creed this piece digitally using bold and vibrant hues to give off a feeling of action and warmth to give the reader an idea of the main...
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Artist StatementUsing a combination of watercolor pencil and digital manipulation, I created a scene showing the invisible man at the desk in his study. He is holding the quill pen...
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Artist StatementI like to do portraits of ordinary people. The image I used for this book cover was from a painting I did of a homeless man I met by...
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Artist StatementEveryone is familiar with the classic Little Women, and is not so familiar with its sequel, Little Men. So I took it as a challenge to create a friendly...
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Artist StatementThe face in the window is based on a chapter in the book, when a character named Lockwood sees the ghost of Cathy, the dead lover of Heathcliff. Her...
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Artist StatementIn my piece, I wanted to represent both the power and the innocence of both the characters of Gaston\'s story. I enlarged the Phantom, to demonstrate the control and...
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Artist StatementFor this piece, I wanted to demonstrate the close relationship of both sisters. I wanted to give hints of their personalities and style of fashion. One sister seems much...
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Artist StatementI took the different photos needed for the cover - the sky, the fence and the paint can. The person on the cover is a photo of my nephew.I...
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Artist StatementSiddhartha has always been my favorite book since my formative years as a teenager. But, in many ways, I never exactly knew why. I appreciated that he pursued different...
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Artist StatementI created an original ink drawing on vellum and colored it in Photoshop. I wanted to achieve movement through line-work and typography, as well as use bold colors fitting...
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Artist StatementSarah Crewe survives her difficult circumstances by using the powers of her vivid imagination. This cover is meant to illustrate the contrast between the cold and snowy London rooftop...
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Artist StatementWhat is being depicted for the viewer is a moment where Dracula has already claimed his most recent victim. The viewer has this moment to gaze into the eye...
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Artist StatementThis cover represents the eerieness and themes of death in Dante Alighieri\'s Inferno. — Montana Laschanzky
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Artist StatementWhile listening to Siddhartha in audiobook form, the cover image of the river and of the title character - bold, simple and abstract - slowly revealed itself to me....
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Artist StatementThis cover depicts the decent into the darkness that is Dante Alighieri\'s, Inferno. I made this digital cover in Adobe Illustrator CC. — Montana Laschanzky
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Artist StatementI manually created this cover. I took pictures of the flowers with the foil road laying in them. I used both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create the rest...
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Artist StatementI wanted to represent the darkness in the story but also have just a candle representing hope the Main character Jean Valjean has when it comes to his future....
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Artist StatementIn the story the main character Jean Valjean\'s life is chaotic. I wanted to represent chaos for that and also the blood shed during the french revolution. — Tanner...
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Artist StatementThe silver candlesticks are a big symbol of the story. They represent the promise that Jean Valjean keeps with Myriel to start being a better man. — Tanner Boesiger
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Artist StatementThis composition was done completely digitally, with Adobe Illustrator. I was inspired by the smooth movements of the forms, and Jane Eyre\'s personality. I chose lavender, gray and white...
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Artist StatementFor this composition, I painted the background on a canvas with acrylic paint as a manual process. I then photographed the piece, and added text with Adobe Illustrator. I...
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Artist StatementI tried to make a clear statement about the work solely through typographic signs and a very limited colour palette — Ernesto Peña
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Artist StatementI made this as an example for a class that I am teaching. — Paul Bond
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Artist Statementone of a set — Nick Fairbank
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Artist StatementThe background of the image, and the ribbons with the title and author are meant to be evoke Christmas wrapping paper. The image is completed with three ghosts to...
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Artist StatementChristmas is my favourite season, and Charles Dickens\' A Christmas Carol is a favourite book. Instead of using common images from the story that we see so often such...
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Artist StatementThe shape in the center is a visual description of a three dimensional object passing through two dimensional space. The other elements are depictions of the two dimensional beings...
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Artist StatementGeometric Exploration of the cover with red tones — Roberlan Borges
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Artist StatementOliver Twist envisioned as an old letterpress poster — Roberlan Borges
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Artist Statementone of a series — Nick Fairbank
