Ruben Toledo for Penguin Classics

Just in time for the back-to-school season, Penguin Classics will roll out a trio of timeless tales with a 21st-century twist. The publishing house recruited graphic artist Ruben Toledo to bring his signature à la mode elegance to the covers of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Part of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions line, the books will be published later this month. Penguin has previously enlisted the likes of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, and Roz Chast to illustrate Deluxe Classics covers. One of our all-time favorites is Charles Burns' striking carcass cover for a 2006 edition of The Jungle, muckraker Upton Sinclair's slaughterhouse exposé.