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Dropped $85 on a 1962 copy of Fahrenheit 451 with the original cover, and now I get why it was pulled
My used bookstore guy in Tucson warned me the first edition cover literally showed a man burning, which is why schools yanked it, and seeing that image next to the text made the whole censorship story click in a way no article ever did, so does anyone here track cover art changes as their own censorship record?
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hayden58711d ago
That part about seeing the image next to the text making it click hits hard. I always figured cover art was just marketing, you know, whatever sells the book. But then I saw an old edition of 1984 with this bleak as hell cover and it felt totally different than the plain one I read in school. Now I'm noticing how often the art shifts right around when a book gets challenged somewhere. Like they soften it up to keep it on shelves, or crank up the shock value after it gets banned. Never really bought that covers mattered much before, but I was wrong.
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