Penguin Modern Classics Obsession Part One:
My obsession with the UK/Canada line of Penguin Modern Classics begins last December, during a visit to a local bookshop, when I see this book cover:
I just about burst into flames at the awesomeness of this cover. Its simplicity, its symmetry, its monochromatic sleekness, its cleverly oblique reference to the content of the book — foregrounding Burgess’s grimly funny image of violent young men drinking glasses of milk, caught between adulthood and childhood. A startlingly subdued cover for a very unsubdued book, and a smart piece of graphic design.
