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 StatementMy usual watercolor didn't quite suit this piece, so I stuck with a flat style that works much better. I wanted something a little surreal and dark, but I...
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Artist Statement"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" — Ed Gaither
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Artist StatementCover design for This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Sawsan Chalabi
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Artist StatementAnother print from a personal series re imagined as a playful take on the Nautilus. Let the adventure begin! — Wade Greenberg
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Artist Statement"...a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled..." A story that is like the veins that snake through our body pumping...
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Artist StatementEvils of man can never be escaped in the mind. — Louise Norman
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Artist StatementGrimm's Fairy Tales actually has a history of beautiful book covers as well as top notch interior illustrations. However, I tried my best to try to design a cover...
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Artist StatementI wanted it to be something simple, yet not unappealing. I think I've managed to create something of the sort. - Sanved Bangale
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Artist StatementI created this book cover in Adobe Illustrator. I looked at other book covers and realized how plain they looked and how unattractive they were to younger audiences who...
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Artist StatementI recently re read Peter Pan and was really taken with it and the story. I was wanting to challenge myself and my illustration style so I decided to...
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Artist Statement The game is on... - Sugarmaa Bataa
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Artist StatementBasically what I made is three different compositions of my book cover. I made one manual, a typographic, and a digital and focused on the symbolism. I decided to...
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Artist StatementThis was one of three solutions I made for this book. This one being a manual solution. - Jameson Officer-Thurston
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Artist StatementThis take on Grimm's Fairy Tales explores the dark nature of the tales in the book. - Mercedes Apodaca
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Artist StatementI chose to depict a darker representation of King Arthur's story. In the center is Excalibur, tangled in twisting, thorny vines that represent the constant hardships and evils that...
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Artist StatementIn my first year in community college our teacher had us read A Doll's House, and it was probably my favorite thing we read the whole semester! I thought...
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Artist StatementI remember really enjoying Aesop's Fables as a child so I decided to pick this classic title! I created this work digitally with Procreate on my iPad. - Alex...
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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 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
