valentine's day: popular literature with heart centered covers

the cover of ‘in search of lost time’ by marcel proust is tailored to include a heart graphic by eurydyka kata & rafał szczawiński

valentine’s day is upon us, and what better way to celebrate love than through literature. designers eurydyka kata & rafał szczawiński have had fun with the surprisingly versatile shape of the heart to create graphics for the cover of each book that somehow cleverly weaves the form into the image. each picture uses the shape as the center of the composition around which a symbolic illustration and typography are arranged. the novels range from pulp romances through to venerable classics to postmodernist experiments – but all feature some version of the eternal love theme. happy valentine’s day!

the cover of ‘the vagina monologues’ by eve ensler

the cover of ‘lolita’ by vladimir nabokov

the cover of ‘a good year’ by peter mayle

the cover of ‘memoirs of a geisha’ by arthur golden

the cover of ‘bridget jones’s diary’ by helen fielding

the cover of ‘the hunchback of notre-dame’ by victor hugo

the cover of ‘homer’s daughter’ by robert graves

the cover of ‘the gambler’ by dostoyevsky

the cover of ‘cider house rules’ by john irving

the cover of ‘ireland’ by frank delaney

the cover of ‘quo vadis quo vadis’ by henryk sienkiewicz

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