Book Traveling Thursday (18) | My favorite classic

It’s Thursday and time for another Book Traveling Thursday. This weekly meme was created by Cátia @ The Girl Who Read Too Much and Danielle @ Danielle’s Book Blog. Visit their Goodreads group to learn more about Book Traveling Thursday 🙂

The rules are to share covers related to the weekly theme where you include the original cover, the cover from your country, your favorite, and your least favorite. I’ve decided to go for a top 3 and bottom 3 arrangement, because that’s more fun and I get to showcase more covers. 

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This week’s theme is “your favorite classic.” My favorite of the ones I’ve read is definitely Wuthering Heights. It’s so dark and gloomy and the characters are fucked up. The prim and proper Pride and Prejudice kind of books aren’t for me, so eeey Emily Brontë, you speak my language. I really wish this wasn’t her only novel. 

I hope this post won’t take forever to make XD Classics have a million different covers…

ORIGINAL COVER

This might be it. But I could be wrong. It looked something like this anyway. 

COVERS FROM NORWAY

There are probably more, but these were the ones I could find with a quick google search. My favorite out of these is the bottom left one, it’s probably the newest out of all of these. It might be too pretty/delicate for this book, but it’s really aesthetically pleasing to me. The worst one is the red one. 

TOP 3 FAVORITE COVERS

I am not looking through all 65 pages on Goodreads. Just nope, not happening. So I’m choosing the ones I already know of and love. Just look at this Penguin Couture edition, isn’t it gorgeous? It’s like they let Tim Burton loose on it. And all the Knickerbocker classics look so good in real life, I drool all over them every time I’m at the bookstore. And the Mr. Boddington’s editions must be the prettiest of them all, I mean look at them. I don’t even know if they’re available to buy anymore ;_;

BOTTOM 3 COVERS

So many classic covers are ugly, let’s just admit that. So this is a difficult one, since there are so many to choose from. I’m just going to pick some that catch my eye, because, again, I’m not going through 65 pages. These aren’t necessarily my least favorites of them all, but instead just examples of the type of cover I don’t like. 

The first one is some English edition, not sure who published it. But it’s basically just a photo of some trees with some text slapped on top. The Barnes & Noble Classic is just an example of those ~dramatic painting of nature~ covers I don’t particularly like. And the last one, which seems to be the cover of an audio book, is too bodice-ripper looking for me. 

What’s your favorite classic? What type of cover do you prefer for classics? Dramatic paintings? Old-school leatherbound? Modern flower prints??

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