The state of their cover design game really makes me sad because i LOVED their old classics covers that feature old paintings :( i actually LOVE their covers for their Mystery/Supernatural books! I was so surprised to see "The Whisperer in Darkness" cover! I have that in my bookshelf and i thought it was such a cool cover! :)
The cover art of Wordsworth editions is excellent ! I like every one of those art covers. Wordsworth editions also an introduction and a preface, which others do not always have. The print size is good and good quality paperback.
Penguin Classics are my favourite. I'm here to see if anyone besides me is outraged by the terrible covers of Wordsworth Classics. I can't believe they produce such bad covers. I'm puzzled. BTW you have a sweet voice.
I feel like Wordsworth can have really nice covers with paintings (I have another edition of Persuasion with a painting of a woman dressed in white on a pier, and a Jekyll and Hyde with a painting also looking great for the subject matter), but some of their covers look a bit tacky…
I took at look at this after you hinted that you'd be looking at modern WW covers last week. What struck me is how un-artful they look...almost as if I could have thrown them together in MS Publisher. The Russian ones are bizarre!
I hate when they put the real pictures which are really tacky. I think for Persuasion they are using corset because it forced the shape of the body into something else👏 I think they look tacky be she they put like people pasted on the cover. The only ones are like are the Thomas Hardy one.
I am not that particular about cover design. However cover design of wordsworth classics, especially covers with persons, is a bit weird to me as a Korean. It sometimes looks like a photo of real persons and sometimes looks like a really realistic picture. In South Korea, sometimes you receive a booklet on the street. It is from some kind of church. The booklet says their church can cure your evils like cancer, mental illness and sexuality and we should prepare the last day and etc. The same kind of pictures as covers of wordsworth classics are used in that booklets. So weird to me.
Some of them are ok. 😂 Makes no difference to me when reading. Only 4-5 of the books I've ever read have been Wordsworth. As you said though, you wouldn't want them on your bookshelf/display. I have since sold my Wordsworth editions and bought Penguin editions. 😂 The only decent ones I've seen are Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby and maybe The Picture of Dorian Gray. They are the only ones I've had though. 😂 Never again.
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The state of their cover design game really makes me sad because i LOVED their old classics covers that feature old paintings :(
i actually LOVE their covers for their Mystery/Supernatural books! I was so surprised to see "The Whisperer in Darkness" cover! I have that in my bookshelf and i thought it was such a cool cover! :)
Yes, I'd love to see the mystery design applied to their other titles! I still need to get their Lovecraft book 😁
The cover art of Wordsworth editions is excellent ! I like every one of those art covers. Wordsworth editions also an introduction and a preface, which others do not always have. The print size is good and good quality paperback.
Penguin Classics are my favourite. I'm here to see if anyone besides me is outraged by the terrible covers of Wordsworth Classics. I can't believe they produce such bad covers. I'm puzzled. BTW you have a sweet voice.
Intrigued 👌
I feel like Wordsworth can have really nice covers with paintings (I have another edition of Persuasion with a painting of a woman dressed in white on a pier, and a Jekyll and Hyde with a painting also looking great for the subject matter), but some of their covers look a bit tacky…
Do collins classics later!
I took at look at this after you hinted that you'd be looking at modern WW covers last week. What struck me is how un-artful they look...almost as if I could have thrown them together in MS Publisher. The Russian ones are bizarre!
I hate when they put the real pictures which are really tacky.
I think for Persuasion they are using corset because it forced the shape of the body into something else👏
I think they look tacky be she they put like people pasted on the cover.
The only ones are like are the Thomas Hardy one.
Oh, I didn't even think of that re: Persuasion! That would make sense at least. 🙂
I thought that would be why they did it
I am not that particular about cover design. However cover design of wordsworth classics, especially covers with persons, is a bit weird to me as a Korean. It sometimes looks like a photo of real persons and sometimes looks like a really realistic picture. In South Korea, sometimes you receive a booklet on the street. It is from some kind of church. The booklet says their church can cure your evils like cancer, mental illness and sexuality and we should prepare the last day and etc. The same kind of pictures as covers of wordsworth classics are used in that booklets. So weird to me.
That does sound strange. I think aesthetic design is much more difficult than most people realize!
Some of them are ok. 😂 Makes no difference to me when reading. Only 4-5 of the books I've ever read have been Wordsworth. As you said though, you wouldn't want them on your bookshelf/display. I have since sold my Wordsworth editions and bought Penguin editions. 😂
The only decent ones I've seen are Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby and maybe The Picture of Dorian Gray. They are the only ones I've had though. 😂 Never again.