I'll be the first to admit I judge books by their covers. I will pore through the versions at bookstores, find the prettiest copy on Amazon, and even dole out extra dollars just to get the copy of
One Hundred Years of Solitude with the most gorgeous tropical-like cover.
So I was psyched to find out that fashion illustrator Ruben Toldeo was designing book covers for three pieces of classic literature: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. The artist told NYLON magazine that he had never read any of the books before, but was excited to have an excuse to sit down and read them. And the results came out great. Pride and Prejudice features Elizabeth Bennett rejecting Mr. Darcy, but his foot is tellingly on her petticoat as she walks away. Wuthering Heights has a desperate, windswept Catherine Earnshaw wandering the Yorkshire moors of the story. And the herione of The Scarlet Letter gets a technicolor makeover, holding her illigetimate daughter Pearl and with strands from her scarlet letter clinging to her arm.
The fashionable new books will be released August 25, and is available for preorder.
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