Lurid Paperback Covers
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Slate has a trashy paperback cover sideshow:
In the 1950s, some publishing houses opted to release literary fiction with pulp covers. A striking edition of The Sheltering Sky, for example, promised "a strange tale in the exotic desert"—a tagline that is, when you think about it, both pulpy and apt. Taking such efforts as our inspiration, we asked a handful of designers to create lurid new book jackets for classics from The Iliad to Animal Farm. Click here to see the results.
Comments
Incredible - hilarious covers. Is this a joke - I mean are these covers for real?! Little Women is about the funniest - this book is forthe reading pleasure of young girls - but with this cover it looks young debauchees limbering up for an orgy!
Posted by: Anonymous | May 13, 2009 9:04 AM
Reality is fuller of better jokes than anything we can make up.
Posted by: Richard | May 13, 2009 1:18 PM