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Amazing redesigned book covers
When is great design even better than usual? Well, when it's also for a great cause.
This awesome project pulled together 100 artists from 28 countries to create alternative book covers for some of the greatest books of all time. It's all to support the fight against illiteracy. We've selected 30 of our favourites to share with you below.
You can find the full list here, where you can also buy them.
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyo…
Designer: Ilya Donets More details
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The Portrait Of A Lady (Hen…
Designer: Sara Jaffer More details
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Robert…
Designer: Sandra Monatf More details
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Designer: Amy Blackwell More details
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A Passage To India (EM Fors…
Designer: Patrick Latimer More details
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Designer: Ian Caulkett More details
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David Copperfield (Charles …
Designer: Jade Janssens & Hadewych Becuwe More details
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Br…
Designer: Lara Crow More details
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Designer: Jennifer Collier More details
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Alice In Wonderland (Lewis …
Designer: Tim Van Den Broeck More details
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray …
Designer: Jans Dawn More details
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The Adventures Of Huckleber…
Designer: Medhi Dewalle More details
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Jude The Obscure (Thomas Ha…
Designer: Susumu Fujimoto More details
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Designer: Brandon Bedaw More details
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As I Lay Dying (William Fau…
Designer: Emma Cook More details
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The Great Gatsby (F Scott F…
Designer: Carol Reznor More details
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The Big Sleep (Raymond Chan…
Designer: Chad Lewis More details
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The Plague (Albert Camus)
Designer: Seonaid MacKay More details
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Things Fall Apart (Chinua A…
Designer: Stephen Krohn More details
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One Hundred Years Of Solitu…
Designer: Margarita Stchetinskaya More details
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Designer: Yasmeen Ismail More details
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To Kill A Mockingbird (Harp…
Designer: Paul Boardman More details
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Song Of Solomon (Toni Morri…
Designer: Dimitri Sakelaropolus More details
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Money (Martin Amis)
Designer: Blanca Gómez More details
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The Artist Of The Floating …
Designer: Paper Collective More details
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LA Confidential (James Ellroy)
Designer: Liam Bushby More details
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Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Designer: Laura Schillemans More details
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If On A Winter's Night A Tr…
Designer: Valentina Montagna More details
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Designer: Lauren Gentry More details
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The BFG (Roald Dahl)
Designer: Inge Lavrijsen More details
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