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 Statement"All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness..." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"The gentle kangaroos...it wasn?t love he felt for them, but a dark, animal tenderness..." - Ed Gaither
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Artist StatementThis design handles science fiction through type and space - custom typography echoing the "moon" of the title. - Trevor Messersmith
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Artist StatementI created this design with the idea of the fox as a mask for the underlying tensions the characters experience in D.H. Lawrence's novel. - Trevor Messersmith
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Artist Statement"Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"The house is a machine for living in." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement The silhouette of Sherlock Holmes is part of the frame with the title in smoke from his pipe. Behind the smoke, as the main body of the cover,...
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Artist Statement"alas we were chaste on earth we ghosts" - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"The sons of rich men are proverbially wild." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"Our course would bring us within about twenty thousand miles of the Moon, and as we neared it I believe that the sight of it was the most impressive...
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Artist Statement"Her chin was pressed down, and his eyes were looking up. They met her eyes. And he knew her."" - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"It was wonderful to awaken amidst it, wonderful to fall asleep to this mysterious and melancholy whispering." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement "They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches." - Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement For this cover, I wanted to design something classic and romantic, but a cover that reflected his writing style. That's why you'll definitely see a mixture of thin...
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Artist Statement I made this book cover by using a manual process. I watercolored the hills and put a black path with a micron pen. The photographed the painting and...
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Artist Statement I designed the cover the way it is, because I've always liked simplistic covers on books. I wanted to create a cover that every reader could imagine their...
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Artist Statement I made a design for the cover based on broadside posters from the time period using Adobe illustrator. I chose this design because I think it really catches...
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Artist Statement This cover relates to the story with the elements of the map and the type during this time period of the story. - Taylor Wiens
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Artist Statement I created this version of Around The World In 80 Days based off the importance of time throughout the story with a large clock and type that references...
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Artist StatementI decided to design this book cover because it wasn't one that had been designed for often and it was one of the books on the list that I...
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Artist StatementI wanted to magnify an element of the book that is rarely or shown little in previously designed covers that has a significant role in the story. I chose...
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Artist StatementI wanted to magnify an element of the book that is rarely or shown little in previously designed covers that has a significant role in the story. I chose...
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Artist StatementI picked The Lost Continent because I had not read or heard of it before, and it had an intriguing plot synopsis. I found the book to be rather...
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Artist StatementI have always been fascinated with the stars and this design is a nod to the quote "Second star to the right and straight on til morning". — Dominic...
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Artist Statement"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever...
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Artist Statement"To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface;...
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Artist Statement"It's a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"'Alan,' I cried, 'I can stand no more of this.'" — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it...." — Ed Gaither
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Artist Statement"And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you." — Ed Gaither
