'The Bell Jar' Cover Inspires Online Parodies
When the UK publisher Faber released the cover art for a 50th anniversary edition of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, online critics attacked the controversial cover image. What do you think? Below, we've collected parody book covers inspired by the updated cover, including A Hunger Games-themed cover
- Here is the new cover for the classic book...
Debate raging about new @FaberBooks cover for 'The Bell Jar'. Too chick-lit? What do you think? http://pic.twitter.com/Xl29DF9L- Here are a few of the parody covers created by Twitter readers.
Based on what little I know about the novel, I have made a book cover of "The Bell Jar" Hire Me! http://pic.twitter.com/A6kQddvK
I was hired freelance to do a little damage control re. Sylvia Plath's THE BELL JAR cover. Here's the new one - http://pic.twitter.com/triRC1A9
Guys it's okay Faber have announced that they're revising their cover of The Bell Jar http://pic.twitter.com/ulfEvBqt
RT @NellFrizzell: Don't worry guys, I've fixed The Bell Jar front cover http://pic.twitter.com/p5E2bPVj
I quite like the new cover design for The Bell Jar: http://pic.twitter.com/8DX540wu- The controversy also inspired other readers to create new covers for other classic works of literature...
Hey @ka_williams “@tkingdoll asking for new (bad) book cover ideas to @FaberBooks after their new (bad) Bell Jar cover pbs.twimg.com/media/BCAb6BeC…”
Following on from The Bell Jar, here's another classic with a contemporary redesign. http://pic.twitter.com/iqrFzgzx
RT @guanoman: After The Bell Jar's chick-lit redesign, another literary classic gets a makeover. http://pic.twitter.com/25CGMFsf
I'm so stoked about the new BELL JAR cover lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/01/3… that I've redesigned another classic http://pic.twitter.com/2mf4E5rH
RT @immutableC: Inspired by @FaberBooks new cover of The Bell Jar, here's my idea for the special edition of the Lord of the Flies... http://pic.twitter.com/lPRgEmtk
After The Bell Jar, rebranding more books for our tiny ditzy ladybrains "@stuarthoughton: http://pic.twitter.com/cJEv3JU3" Well done Faber.- One reader compared the original cover art to the new cover art for "The Bell Jar."
thanks to @LJBookie who found this hideous revamp of The Bell Jar. Sylvia is rolling in her grave as we speak. http://pic.twitter.com/szOkcQ2x- Other readers shared other cover images from previous editions of The Bell Jar.
MY copy of The Bell Jar has just got this blonde random on it http://pic.twitter.com/fBSa6Qta
- Finally, one reader dug up the original review of The Bell Jar.
Lots of discussion about Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar today. 1st Guardian review was 1 Feb 1963 exactly 50 years today! http://pic.twitter.com/WMxLpFcb
