Man’s Fate Covers

Posted: November 27th, 2010 | No Comments »

I’ve done a couple of Penguin Classics Lunches for the celebration of Penguin’s five years in China. I talked about Malraux’s Man’s Fate and hopefully inspired a few folk to read the book – certainly a few got sold so maybe they’ll also get read – no guarantee of that though!

(and I’ve still got to do the Man’s Fate lunch at the Beijing Bookworm on December 3rd)

Anyway, here’s a bunch of various covers of Man’s Fate that are perhaps interesting to browse.

The Gallimard edition in the traditional,but stylish, cover style of that house

The Modern Library edition which has a very cool and inexplicable cover

A French edition that stresses Malraux’s Prix Goncourt in 1933

A later edition that seems to be playing to an interest in the 1949 revolution and Maoist China rather than the early days of 1927

A fairly nice and red starred cover from a fairly recent re-edition

And the new (ish) Penguin Modern Classics cover- ‘up the revo comrades’ being emphasised

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