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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Catherine Peters (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
William Thackery's bestseller tells the tale of two wildly different girls growing up in Victorian England. Becky Sharp is a poor orphan possessing free spirits and an abundance of wit. Her friend, Amelia Sedley is the rich daughter of a wealthy family with no real-world experience. However, the real hi ...Show more
Venice Stories by Jonathan Keates (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers. The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. The international selection of stories gathered in this volume features such classics as Thoma ...Show more
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The girl he had come across ... that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.' Damaged by his father's nihilistic philosophy, Ax ...Show more
Victory - An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when h ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Brontë; Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Villetteis Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in Penguin Classics. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Vi ...Show more
Walden - Everyman's Library by Henry Thoreau (Illustrator); Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction by)
Category: Nature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. Originally he was not, apparently, intending to write a book about his life at the pond, but nine year ...Show more
Walden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a n ...Show more
War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Three-Volume Boxed Set
Washington Square by Henry James; Arthur Phillips (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
'She will do as I have bidden her.'Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded aunt, Mrs Penniman, but ...Show more
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem ...Show more
Wedding Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
A bouquet of wonderful wedding stories - by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic, by famous writers from across the past two centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS. The stories collected here--inc ...Show more
Winnie-The-Pooh - Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard by A. A. Milne; Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
A gorgeous, full-color, hardcover edition of one of the most beloved children's classics in literature The iconic adventures of Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and their animal friends--Piglet, Kanga and Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger, and Eeyore--have delighted generations of children. In this beauti ...Show more