New York Fashion Week may be over, but the newly facelifted Penguin Classics Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and The Scarlett Letter, are here to stay.
Featuring modern new covers by noted illustrator and artist Ruben Toledo (and designed to coincide with New York Fashion Week) Penguin’s intention was to attract new readers to classics in a vein similar to that employed by Quirk Books that has made new readers give Jane Austen a second glance with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the newly released Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (which I am reading right now – it is great!).
According to Toledo, Penguin gave him free rein to redesign the covers as he saw fit with the only instruction to, “…make art that would make [young adults] want to read — to introduce these stories to a new public no matter what age” (for the full text of Toledo’s interview with WWD Lifestyle click here).
In spite of owning previous copies of all three of these titles, I just purchased the Toledo-illustrated version of Wuthering Heights…and I think I might buy the other editions too.
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