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King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Puffin Pixels is a new collection of classics featuring pixelated, 8-bit cover artwork. For older readers nostalgic for video and computer games of the past, to kids looking for something a bit edgier on their bookshelf, Puffin Pixels will add a sophisticated, yet fresh, flair to the canon. Including ta ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in a highly designed paperback with flaps with a new introduction by Pierre Baumann. Part of the Knickerbocker Classics series, a modern design makes this timeless book a perfect travel companion.The personal writings of the Roman emperor M ...Show more
Prague Stories by Richard Bassett (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends, and scenes from the city's past and present, from ...Show more
The Best Medicine - Stories of Healing by Theodore Dalrymple (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
This unique collection of medical stories approaches its theme from many eras and perspectives. Some of the authors included were themselves physicians, notably Chekhov, Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham and William Carlos Williams. Bulgakov, too, draws on his own experience as a doctor in rural Russia a ce ...Show more
The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume. Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiec ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Alexandre Dumas's epic novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery--one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written--in a newly revised translation. This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly ...Show more
The L. A. Quartet by James Ellroy
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities by Marguerite Duras
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husb ...Show more
The Social Contract and the Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; G.D.H. Cole (Translator)
Category: Reference | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is much read in its entirety today, and it continues to exert a direct influence on contemporary political ...Show more
The Travels of Marco Polo by Peter Harris (Editor); Colin Thubron (Introduction by); Marco Polo; William Marsden (Translator)
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Now in a handsome and newly revised hardcover edition: the extraordinary travelogue that has enthralled readers for more than seven centuries. Marco Polo's vivid descriptions of the splendid cities and people he encountered on his journey along the Silk Road through the Middle East, South Asia, and Chin ...Show more
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence; David Ellis (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oatesforeword by the authorCommentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West,Aldous Huxley, and Henry MillerIt is . . . the world of the poets and the preponderance of the poet in Lawrence that is the key to his work. He magnified and deepened experience in the manner of a p ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë; Katherine Frank (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Wuthering Heights a novel by Emily Bront , first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was her first and only published novel: she died the following year, at age 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte ...Show more