books by Everyman's Library

books by Everyman's Library

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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library)

Joan Didion

Everyman's Library, 2006

Beautiful Collection
What I had read from Didion in my college comp. class could not have prepared me for the depth and beauty of her body of work. In retrospect, I cannot believe that my professor only asked us to read ONE essay from this remarkable woman. Her work is amazing! Now I ...

Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Vladimir Nabokov

Everyman's Library, 1993

A road movie of the mind
Praise be to Graham Greene, who was not only an interesting novelist (e.g. The Quiet American), but he also has the merit of saving Nabokov's Lolita from obscurity. When the book found no publisher in the US, it was first brought out by a shady Parisian company that ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

Everyman's Library, 1992

Still Relevant
1984 has come and gone but this still is one of the most important books you could read about why it's important to protect our Freedom. Orwell wrote it to condemn Stalin and the Bolshevists but power for the sake of Power happens everywhere the government gets too ...

The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)

Dante Alighieri

Everyman's Library, 1995

Superb Book!!!
This is such a GREAT book. I've decided to use it for my HS graduationn project. It is very in depth and provides a great recollection! It is just like the original Divine Comedy written by Dante hisself!!

The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

P.G. Wodehouse

Everyman's Library, 2007

Some information
I don't own this anthology, just became aware of it half an hour ago, but a little Googling reveals that it comes in at about 500 pages. Introduction by John Mortimer. It contains two complete novels, one Jeeves and one Blandings Castle: The code of the Woosters (1938) ...

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library)

Naguib Mahfouz

Everyman's Library, 2001

Great book for a long trip
Naguib Mahfouz relates a distant time in a far away place with simple sentences and rich details. He relates the breadth of human experience equally well, offering depth and understanding of women as well as men. For the first time I feel that I have some ...

The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)

Margaret Atwood

Everyman's Library, 2006

A typical futuristic tale from Margaret Atwood
An interesting read from Margaret Atwood. This is definitely a story noire, set in the not too distant future in a dictatorial, 'Orwellian' society . Life is a struggle and one does whatever one has to do, just to get by. And whatever one has to do just to get by, ...

David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Irene Nemirovsky

Everyman's Library, 2008

Exceptional Reading
There are many reasons for loving a book ... of course content, the manner in which the author has painted a picture for the reader, a love for the time period in which a story is set, perhaps a specific character - heaven knows - I have fallen in love with a ...

Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's ...

John Updike

Everyman's Library, 1995

When a novel becomes a friend
There is always that sad feeling at the end of a great character-based novel. It's as if you just got to know and love someone and they vanish. This series is spectacular for so many reasons, but I particularly love how well I know Rabbit by now (I'm in the 3rd book), ...

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)

Cormac Mccarthy

Everyman's Library, 1999

the single most influential series i've read in my life
Cormac McCarthy has the amazing abilitly to envoke emotion using description of action and place. One never gets inside of his characters heads directly (at least not in this particular series) and yet it is the most emotionaly powerful series i have ever encountered. ...

The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Umberto Eco

Everyman's Library, 2006

Excellent
This is a very beautiful novel, the first 50 pages are bit hard to digest as the writer delves deeply into Christian theology, but go ahead and there awaits you an incredible novel about a priest and his neophyte trying to solve a murder that takes place at a monastery ...

The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

Alexander Pushkin

Everyman's Library, 1999

Thrilling Tales of Adventure and Romance!
This book contains the major prose works of Aleksandr Pushkin, which include "The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin", "Dubrovskii", "The Queen of Spades", "The Captain's Daughter", and "A History of Pugachev". Also included in the book are many unfinished stories ...

The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library)

Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 1994

Five stars for Waugh, 0 stars for Everyman's Library
Though "Brideshead Revisited" may be his best known work, nothing conveys Waugh's sense of the world better than "The Sword of Honour" trilogy. His sacramental view of earthly reality is best expressed in a memorable exchange between Guy Crouchback, the book's ...

The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)

Albert Camus

Everyman's Library, 2004

Love, Exile, and Suffering Illuminated by Life around Death
What is the meaning of life? For many, that question is an abstraction except in the context of being aware of losing some of the joys of life, or life itself. In The Plague, Camus creates a timeless tale of humans caught in the jaws of implacable death, in this case a ...

The Complete Novels (Everyman's Library)

Flann O'Brien

Everyman's Library, 2008

One of the Best Irish Writers
On the dust jacket for The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien, the author is lumped in with Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, perhaps the two most famous figures in Irish literature. It's lofty company to be sure, but for most Beckett and especially Joyce are tough ...