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Originally Posted by Waylander
I agree with sun surfer, basically on everything he says. The girl is surely Veruca Salt, can no-one see that? This is what she is like in the book, or are we going to start demanding that someone censor the cover? If the cover was censored then we should censor the entire book, as that is what the cover is based on. This edition is aimed at a more mature audience, so of course it was going to be different. The cover is done in the same style as all other Penguin Modern Classics, same with the typography. The cover is creepy, but that is surely the point. From the comments so far, it seems as though most people on here think everyone should be morally outraged and disgusted with Penguin, but I just find it a creepy picture, not overly sexualised.
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Creepy or not, character or not, it's an ugly cover with hard-to-read text unless it's large.
Generally speaking, while there were some dark overtones to the book that most audiences would probably miss (choose to miss?) given the other light-hearted elements there is NOTHING in this cover that makes it striking or appealing to any audience IMO. If this were an indie cover...well, at least if it were an indie cover, it would be getting a lot of discussion and being made fun of far and wide and probably garner some sales as a result. Which is pretty much what is happening here. Maybe that was their plan? It has gotten discussion if nothing else.
I don't think it represents the book at all--even if you can sort of try to relate it to one character or another.