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muriel_volestrangler

(102,756 posts)
Fri Mar 12, 2021, 03:09 PM Mar 2021

50 Very Bad Book Covers for Literary Classics

Sometimes they're horribly literal:



sometimes a single word in a title has triggered a thought in someone clearly on a deadline but who has no idea what the book is about:



and sometimes they just appear to be a random image:



https://lithub.com/50-very-bad-book-covers-for-literary-classics/

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50 Very Bad Book Covers for Literary Classics (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2021 OP
;-{) Goonch Mar 2021 #1
Outstanding! Big rec! Ponietz Mar 2021 #2
No excuses for such ignorance... But fun to be shocked! Karadeniz Mar 2021 #3
Too funny hermetic Mar 2021 #4

hermetic

(8,693 posts)
4. Too funny
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 12:00 PM
Mar 2021

Raises some questions. Does every publisher reprint the classics, just because they can? Every five years? I mean, there was just so many of them.

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