They make a pleasant change from the usual old paintings on classics covers, but do they work?
Showing posts with label Modern Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern Library. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Anachronisms
Just a quick post/question: what do people think about wildly and deliberately anachronistic cover images? Here, for example, are two recent-ish Modern Library Classics editions of nineteenth-century Russian novellas, but with decidedly 21st-Century covers which, while thematically appropriate, are obviously not at all accurate for the contents of the books.
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