American Literature The Various Covers for The Street

As far as I know, there have been three major publishers of Ann Petry's novel, The Street. Each one used a different cover image to sell the novel to readers. The most common publisher has used three different cover illustrations, in the 1940s, 1990s and now in the 2000s. Each of these cover illustrations sends different messages to the reader about the contents of the book.

Click on the thumbnail images below to see a larger version and analysis of each cover.

1946 Houghton Mifflin	1960's Pyramid/Jove	1985 Beacon Press	1991 Houghton Mifflin	2000 Houghton Mifflin	title page illustration

If there are other versions of this novel with different cover illustrations that I don't know about, please contact me