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    The 50 Best Slaughterhouse-Five Covers from Around the World

    by Emily Temple Mar 29, 2019 1 minute

    Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, turns 50 this week. Originally published on March 31, 1969, the novel—a genre-bending WWII story about a soldier who becomes “unstuck in time”—was Vonnegut’s first to become a bestseller, and 50 years later, it’s still his most beloved and influential. Many a teenage mind has been blown by Slaughterhouse-Five, and many an adult mind, too. To celebrate the birthday of this essential American novel, I looked at how it’s been covered over the years—both at home and abroad. Some of the below covers are beautiful, some impactful, and some simply odd, but they all make me want to read the book again.

    First Edition cover, Delacorte, 1969

    Mondadori (Italian), 1969

    Gyldendal (Danish), 1969

    Meulenhoff (Dutch), 1970

    Hoffmann und Campe (German), 1970

    Dell first edition paperback, 1971

    Kirjastus Eesti Raamat (Estonian), 1971

    Mladá fronta (Czech), 1973

    BIGZ (Serbian), 1973

    J’ai Lu (French), 1973

    Dell paperback, 1976

    Editorial Bruguera (Spanish), 1977

    早川書房 (Japanese), 1978

    Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó (Hungarian), 1980

    Vintage, 1982

    Military Publishers (Bulgaria), 1982

    Mondadori (Italian), 1988

    Polish edition, 1990

    Dell paperback, 1991

    Vintage 1991

    Swedish edition, 1996

    Vintage UK, 2000

    Maecenas Könyvkiadó (Hungarian), 2001

    Anagrama (Spanish), 2006

    Kitos knygos (Lithuanian), 2006

    Argo (Czech), 2008

    Folio Society, ill. John Holder, 2008

    АСТ Москва (Russian), 2009

    Bertrand Editora (Portugese), 2011

    Tammi (Finnish), 2012

    Norstedts (Swedish), 2013

    AST (Russian), 2014

    Feltrinelli (Italian), 2014

    Видавництво Старого Лева (Ukranian), 2014

    ART (Romanian), 2014

    Helikon (Hungarian), 2014

    April Yayıncılık (Turkish), 2015

    დიოგენე (Georgian), 2015

    Penguin Australia Vintage Classics edition, 2016

    麥田出版社 (Chinese), 2016

    Slovart (Slovak), 2016

    HoCa – Belletristik (German), 2016

    Points (French), 2016

    Argo (Czech), 2016

    Gyldendal (Danish), 2016

    ART (Romanian), 2017

    Knygos (Lithuanian), 2017

    Zysk i S-ka (Polish), 2018

    Penguin UK Vintage Classics, 50th Anniversary Edition, 2019

    Intrínseca (Portuguese), 2019

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