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 this cover I started with a blind contour drawing and went back in and added the scribble lines to up the creep factor. I took heavy inspiration from...
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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 wanted to show the main character finding her awakening at the bottom of the ocean. The ocean is important because in the book, this is where she has...
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Artist StatementI used traditional and digital methods to create a book cover for Jane Austen's Emma. I've always been an Austen fan, and I've never seen very fun covers for...
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Artist StatementBecause this story is centered on the story of Satan's fall from heaven and his influence in the original sin, I wanted the focus of the cover to be...
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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 StatementI chose to re-imagine Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' as it holds a special place in my heart, as a child, my mom owned an old, tattered copy...
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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 Anne Elliott is young and people tries to persuade her about a good marriage. She doesn''t give attention to them. She lost her mother and is just concerned...
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“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Artist Statement "When I was a kid we would grab our poles and ride our bikes to the creek. All day long it was like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer....
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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
