Top Ten Tuesday: These are really terrible covers of famous classic novels. They all seem to miss the mark on so many levels...themes, aesthetics, general appeal, you name it.
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005. Okay, I take it the monster had teeth but is that the main point of his creation?
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Heinemann Educational Books, LTD., 1966. Was this the school version used by students in the 1960s? Where are Scout, Jem, and Bo Radley?
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, CreateSpace Publishing, 2009. Way too modern for the story and why is someone self-publishing this book which is still in print?
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Mass Market Publishing, 2003. The cover conveys chaos, but what is that brown beaver-looking thing in the middle? Ugly.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Penguin Classics, 2009. The cover isn't ugly, it just doesn't seem to have anything to do with the story. Odd.
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Penguin Classics, 2000. Upsetting and ugly. I couldn't read this version of the story because of the cover.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Vintage Classics, 2016. Weirdly colorful and cheery, which doesn't seem to match the story at all. Perhaps because the book begins with the purchase of flowers?
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Modern Library Classics, 2004. The placement of the book's title is so odd. Why is it placed right over his head?
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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Public Domain Books, 1998. What the heck is this supposed to be? It is so weird it makes me laugh.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker, Oxford University Press, 2011. Um, isn't this the wrong monster?
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-Anne
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