Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, cover and illustrations by Matthew Woodson:
William Golding's Lord of the Flies, cover and illustrations by Sam Weber (last seen in this post):
John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, cover and illustrations by Tim Laing:
And here's George Psychoundakis's The Cretan Runner, last seen here, cover by Neil Gower:
See? These are all good covers! This blog hasn't degenerated into a freakshow of horrors!
10 comments:
Oh, you're back to those beautiful covers again. So nice to have you back, although I do appreciate the comic relief every once in a while.
The cover of "lord of the flies" is very "Sin City" looking to me. It also reminds me of Dr. Beaker in Frank Miller's original Electra: Assassin series from 1987.
The picture of the child with his fingers up to his mouth actually gave me a chill down my spine.
Dr Beaker! Thank you--I've been trying to work out what it reminded me of!
It's a very effective painting--his website's full of other good/alarming things.
Oh, thank Jeebus! Elegance again.
Most of the time I would rather they left the books without illustrations. It can really ruin them for me.
Every year I succumb to the Folio soc, but wait until their half-price offer! This year I got Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy which I recently re-read - the illustrations were wonderfully modern and evocative of NYC and did enhance my reading hugely.
Of this year's new batch, the Le Carre looks fab.
Love that Cretan Runner spread. The Lord of the Flies cover reminds me not only of Miller but also of Straw Dogs (the Dustin Hoffman with broken glasses poster); doesn't make it any less effective anyway.
You could probably do an entire piece on blank white eyeglasses.
Check out the old independent comic Mr. X by Dean Motter, the Hernandez Bros and others:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17395
Those Le Carré illustrations are very nice.
Thanks for the Motter link--I did do a piece on covers using smashed spectacles: http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2008/11/smashing-specs.html
Dyno-mite! These covers are superb. The Dr. Beaker reference was a slap on the forehead. Thank you, Christy. And, you know, voyages into sleaze are just fine by me.
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