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Amazon.com (ISBN 0307385256, Hardcover)Everyman's Library celebrates over 100 years of publishing with the Everyman's Library 100 Essentials Set including one hundred bestselling titles from their distinguished catalog (from Austen to Atwood, Dante to Dostoyevsky). Each beautifully bound hardcover book features decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines. The HistoryEveryman's Library was founded in 1906 by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent with the purpose of publishing literature that would appeal "to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman." Everyman's Library editions feature original introductions, up-to-date bibliographies, and complete chronologies of the authors' lives and works. In 1991 Everyman's Library was relaunched by a small independent company with the support of Random House in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the US. The revived library featured a fine, easy-to-read typographic design, sewn cloth bindings, acid-free paper, silk ribbon-markers, and substantial new introductions and chronologies by leading scholars and writers. Pride and Prejudice was the first of fifty titles to be published in September 1991, and within twelve months 130 titles had appeared, including such major twentieth-century classics as Joyce's Ulysses, Kafka's The Trial, and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, none of which had previously been published in Everyman's Library. By the 100th Anniversary in 2006 the list of authors Everyman's Library publishes has been joined by Achebe, Allende, Penelope Fitzgerald, Highsmith, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Nabokov, Rushdie, Updike, and Waugh, a catalog that few publishers can rival in paperback and of course none in hardcover.  QualityEveryman's Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everyman's Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines.
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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Everyman's Library in 2006, we asked contemporary authors to choose the book they'd most like to own from the collection. Check out their picks below--and some very interesting reasons why they chose them! Alexander McCall Smith on Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher   R. K. Narayan was one of the great novelists of the 20th century. This volume contains the four early novels in the Malgudi series. He is a very accessible writer--his style is clear and uncluttered and he deals with universals, which would resonate with any reader. What sets him apart as a truly remarkable writer is the way in which he manages to say so much about human nature when dealing with the small events of a small place. Narayan's small town India is a whole world; his characters, with all their hopes, ambitions and quirks, are the whole of humanity. Julia Glass on The Arabian Nights   To read the story of Scheherazade, and of the tales she weaves to save her life, is like walking down a hall of brilliant mirrors, for it is surely the most glorious work of literature in praise of literature itself. Not only does it celebrate the invention and communion of stories, but it tells us that they are essential if we are to survive and flourish. That the young queen wins the sultan's heart with her imagination is a rousing call to those who still have the courage to stake their very future on their dreams.I wish that today's readers, so hooked on statistics and expert advice, so hungry for "the truth," would stop to notice that of all the most powerful stories passed down through the ages, the lion's share by far are fairy tales, heroic sagas, and novels. The true history of human nature has always been told through fiction." Valerie Martin on Dante's Divine Comedy   I'm a fan of the Mandelbaum translation and very curious to read the introduction by Eugenio Montale, who is certainly a true heir to the great Florentine. What better adventure can a poet offer than a guided tour of hell, purgatory, and heaven; three captivating destinations you can't book on Travelocity. I'll take a round trip ticket, please. John Updike on Nabokov's Pnin
  Its installments in The New Yorker were my first acquaintance with Nabokov's prose, and I was bowled over. It remains in my mind the warmest of his fictions, and the only one originally in English which gives a picture of the pain and embarrassments of his exile in this country.Jane Hamilton on Don Quixote   Don Quixote! When I was in High School my boyfriend's goal in life was to play Don Quixote in Man of Lamancha. This was something I could not understand. To want to play a lunatic, to have your hair spray-painted white, to not even get to kiss the girl? Even after he performed the part so nobly our junior year I secretly thought the play, a celebration of psychosis, was dumb. But the book! Half of the world's greatest aphorisms were written by Cervantes. I am a shallow person and I know this from reading Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. It's high time to read the book.Mark Danielewski on Shakespeare's Tragedies, Volume 1   I want them all. Camus, Chandler, Cervantes.Aeschylus, Dante, Conrad. Updike, Homer, Joyce. Morrison, Mann, Orwell. Rushdie, Virgil, Twain. García Márquez, Dostoevsky, Fitzgerald. Kafka, Woolf, Plato. The Bible, The Koran, Tolstoy. And you want me to pick one? Torture, I tell you. Choice's promising blade. Grumble. Tantrum. Sigh. Then I'll choose the one that fed me when I was hungry and calmed me when I ached, what I carried around Europe as a penniless & pretty much friendless college kid, nearly twenty years ago, thumbing over and over through that worn paperback to find a company of voices I still won't forget: William Shakespeare, Tragedies, Volume 1. Mary Gaitskill on Nabokov's Lolita   It is impossible on the level of brief comment to rise to the level required by the book. But if I can go ahead and be clumsy about it, I chose it because of the way Nakokov addresses the multi-faced nature of passion and longing, and how quickly one face transforms into another, the intimate relationship between ugliness and beauty, and how close the seeds of life and death sit together in the pod. And how fascinating and exquisite the pod is just on its own. The book is deep and lightning swift at once. (retrieved from Amazon Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:31:48 -0400) |
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