Literature Book Cover & Movie/Drama Posters & Prints 3/3
for classrooms and home schoolers, theme decor.

William Makepeace Thackeray satirized early 19th century English society in his work “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”.

• Becky Sharp and Lord Steyne, illustration by Howard Pyle

Cover of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', Mark Twain

• more Mark Twain posters

Slaughterhouse-Five, or
The Children's Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five begins with the bombing of Dresden in World War II and uses time travel as a plot device to analyze the human condition.

The Color Purple is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by African-American author Alice Walker (b. 2-9-1944; Georgia).

• The Color Purple (1985) DVD

The Invisible Man, a 1897 science fiction novella by Herbert George Wells, tells the story of the brilliant and flawed research scientist ‘Griffin’ who is unable to reverse his experiment of making himself invisible.

• The Invisible Man (1933) DVD

The Importance of Being Earnest,
Oscar Wilde
b. 10-16-1854; Dublin
d. 11-30-1900; Paris

This cover design features a detail from The Yellow Book, 1894, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.
• The Importance of Being Earnest

Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
b. 3-26-1911; Mississippi
d. 2-25-1983

This 1947 cover for Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams was designed by Alvin Lustig. Lustig, who studied under the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, went on to change the face of American book jacket design forever.

P. G. Wodehouse's most famous work, “Very Good, Jeeves”, is narration by the wealthy and scatterbrained Bertie Wooster of the improbable and unfortunate situations in which he and his friends find themselves, and the manner in which his ingenious valet Jeeves is always able to extricate them.

• P.G. Wodehouse : Five Complete Novels (The Return of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It, The Old Reliable)

Mrs. Dalloway is a portrait of a single day in the life of Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway who, while occupied with the last-minute details of party preparation, remembers the past filled with youthful loves, decisions, wars, and the prospects of aging.

First Edition cover designed by Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister.