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 StatementFor the Dracula book cover, I wanted to get away from the style that is usually used. All of the book covers I have seen for Dracula have had...
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Artist StatementWhat Drew Me to This Particular Book? Most of the modern covers fundamentally misunderstand the author’s intentions. When interviewed Sinclair regretted that his book became popular mainly because the...
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Artist StatementImage combines type lost in waves, and the lying silhouette of a bearded man looking up towards a craggy island with an sinister outline. The waves are hand-drawn and...
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Artist StatementWhen I think of Grimm's Fairy Tales, there are a few things that immediately pop into my head: Cinderella's glass slipper, the apple that poisoned Snow White, and a...
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Artist StatementI wanted to show through a simple symbol (the red star) one of the main ideas of the book-- how the working class is oppressed by an upper class....
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Artist StatementThe best of worst worlds. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementOui the People. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementI chose Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland because growing up and even to this day I felt I could relate to her story. I wanted to create a visual that...
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Artist Statement I love reading because sometimes I want to escape from reality and it allows me to do that, but when I want to delve deep into reality, books...
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"I wanted to create a piece that embodied the pain that we still carry from slavery today." -Gemynii E. Gemynii is a self taught artist who mainly works with painting....
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Artist Statement\'The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.\' The Art of War, written in 6th century B.C. by Sun Tzu, continues to stand the test of time. Do...
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Artist StatementCan you dig it? — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementEvolution of Buck throughout his journey. — Kirsten Mischler
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Artist StatementâIf all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty...
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Artist StatementEveryone needs a challenge, why not a hundred book covers. — Michael Nikola
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Artist Statement Darwin’s considered and accessible account of why animals exist in the forms they do is not only one of the most important scientific studies, it’s also a delightful...
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Artist StatementâAll for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.â â Alexandre Dumas — Bryan Bromstrup
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Artist StatementAlready sent with previous upload. — Emily Adams
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Artist StatementGeryon rises out of the underworld -- \"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.\" â Dante Alighieri — Bryan Bromstrup
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Artist StatementChingachgook - Surviving member of the Mohican tribe. — Bryan Bromstrup
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Artist StatementA humorous graphic depiction of an Earthling eye confronting a Martian eye, with their respective planets as eyeballs. — Robert Wallman
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Artist StatementâPieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!â â Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island — Bryan Bromstrup
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Artist StatementI felt a bit sheepish about this design but, I hope ewe like it. — Charles Thompson
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Artist StatementAnother one-shot. This one can also be hung upside down, and then it changes to an African orator in profile. The solitude and agony of Monk-hood seemed an appropriate...
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Artist Statement... — Guillermo Guzman
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Artist Statement... — Guillermo Guzman
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Artist Statement... — Chris Arnold
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Artist StatementThe Federalist Papers were an inspiration for the birth of the United States of America. One can help distill the magnitude of the book\'s contents by showing its great...
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Artist Statement... — Tristan Garrett Young
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Artist StatementWhen I began the planning phases of this project I pondered how I could create a cover that would be considered fresh and new. As an illustrator my strengths...
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Artist StatementThis is a photo I took of myself where I become a woman entranced by the power of Fitzgerald\'s words and finally give in to him. — Claudia Corletto
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Artist StatementThis has been one of my favorite all time books ever since my third grade teacher read it to us in class. The transformation by nature, of Mary -...
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Artist StatementWhen I was given the opportunity to design a cover for âRecovering the Classicsâ , I had already been working on a series of fairy tale illustrations for a...
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Artist StatementThe concept of a mirror world is fascinating with all of the opportunities for reversing not just images but time, history and fate. — C A Speakman
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Artist Statementone of a series — Nick Fairbank
