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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD""is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by gene ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene's best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the "appalling strangeness of the mercy of God," a classic of its kind. Set in ...Show more
Buddenbrooks - The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann; John E. Woods (Translator)
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story o ...Show more
COLLECTED ALEXANDER PUSHKIN by Alexander Pushkin; John Bayley (Introduction by); Paul Debreczeny (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world's great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted, viv ...Show more
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe. Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry h ...Show more
Candide by Voltaire
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group port ...Show more
Catch 22 by Heller
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in a ...Show more
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth by Leo Tolstoy C. J. Hogarth (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that would come to fruition in his later masterpieces. Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner's son as he gr ...Show more
Christmas Stories by Ed. Diana Tesdell
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. "Christmas Stories" is a treasury of shor ...Show more
Christmas Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. Christmas Stories is a treasury o ...Show more
Cinderella Everyman's Classic edition by EVANS C.S.
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
This edition of the famous fairytale was first published in 1919, and includes the pumpkin coach and mice horse, the rat coachman, lizard footmen and the glass slipper. It is a full-length version of the story, and is illustrated with Arthur Rackham's silhouette drawings.