Book-Alikes: Mirrors & Echoes

I started The Master & Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) last night and was immediately hooked. I stayed up late reading it--the first book I've done that with in a long time.

Right off the bat, it's funny and deep. It reminds me of the effect of Apocalypse Now & Downfall: we can easily see that evil exists.
The echo comes back: goodness must, too.

But it's funny. (Is Pratchett & Gaiman's Good Omens a descendant?)
How does a demon cat get on a trolley when NO CATS ALLOWED?

Googled it--there are many, many illustrations of the cat Behemoth. Even a Soviet stamp--fittingly, as the curtain closes on the USSR in 1991:

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Speaking of things being like other things:
I've gathered some of my favorite book-alikes here.
Sometimes the faces look alike––
sometimes it's the cover designs.

Sometimes a mirror, sometimes an echo.

Two especial favorites:

BELOW Left: A Yoruba queen, 12th-13th cent. (at the Smithsonian):
Right: Boy from Belarus, 2004, by Wendy Ewald, "Uryi"

BELOW, left: illus. by Gunter Grass for his novel Dog Years (1965)
Right: Wood Finishing (1956)

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BELOW: Gurdjieff & Piglet! Was this was intentional?

BELOW: Left, Mary McCarthy (1912–1989);
Right: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

BELOW, Left: Icon of the Madonna Glykophilousa ("Sweet-kissing" her baby, or "Loving Kindness"), 4th century,
...and, right, a sweet horse.

BELOW: Barbie & Simone de Beauvoir?

BELOW: Vietnam & Camelot

BELOW: Left: Poet George Byron (1788–1824),
& Comedian Sarah Silverman (b. 1970– )

The Absurd.

Everyone likes a good hat. . .

And, more hats. Left,  Selvedge magazine cover (Mar/Ap 2018)––I wish I'd kept this (more cool back issues here);
Right: A Soldier Priest Talks to Youth (1963)

Always time for Tea-time!

A few echoes . . .

(For more pictures of book covers,
I labeled 86 posts here 'Book Displays'--
mostly not look-alikes though.)