Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS

An Everyman Classic hardback edition of Dr Sacks's most extraordinary book, in which the poet laureate of medicine (New York Times) recounts fascinating case histories of patients with neurological disorders. Introduced by Atul Gawande, American surgeon and writer, who has said that no one taught him more about how to be a doctor than Oliver Sacks. Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates...

In his award-winning fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman invents a richly detailed and marvellously imagined world that is complex and thought-provoking enough to enthrall readers of all ages. Now a major critically acclaimed BBC series This special collection features all three titles in the award-winning trilogy - Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. Northern Lights...

I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. With this sentence, Dostoevsky began a work which marks the frontier not only between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, but between two centuries' visions of the self. For the unnamed narrator of Notes From Underground is a multiplicity of selves, each at war with the others—all at war with everything else. A...

Encompassing a period of almost 50 years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. These two volumes contain his best work from 1892 to 1910. Henry James Collected Stories Vol 2 showcases the extensive range and depth of his storytelling, capturing the essence of his literary genius.

Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy's enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Collected Shorter Fiction Volume Two reveals how these spiritual intimations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces which equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of The Death of Ivan...

Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy's enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Collected Shorter Fiction Volume 1 of the Everyman series is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as a soldier, landowner, husband, and father—the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace....

A one-volume selection of Lord Byron's poems, letters, and journals reflecting his life and work, marking 200 years since Byron's death on the 19th April 1824. Editor Professor Fiona Stafford arranges his work chronologically and geographically to match Byron's sense of himself—a poet in perpetual motion, a prose writer whose pen was powered by new people and places. In Lord...

From the award-winning translators Pevear and Volokhonsky, the complete prose of the most acclaimed writer of the Romantic era, one of the world's greatest storytellers. The archetypal Romantic, killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature. Though famous as a poet, he was equally at home in...

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two. This meticulously constructed story of two sisters with opposing temperaments and romantic inclinations exemplifies the distilled spirit of classicism in English...

Giovanni's Room, a groundbreaking novel by James Baldwin, stands as a monumental literary work by one of the twentieth century’s most significant American writers. This Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition revives Baldwin’s poignant exploration of love, identity, and societal norms. Set against the evocative backdrop of 1950s Paris, Giovanni's Room delves into the life of David, a young American...

Resurrection is Tolstoy's most controversial novel, narrating the dramatic tale of a remorseful nobleman who seeks redemption after a woman he once wronged is convicted of murder. This gripping story reveals a world of injustice previously unknown to him. A nobleman confronts the repercussions of his youthful misconduct when the girl he seduced and abandoned years earlier is implicated in...

Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov is an extraordinary journey through time and space, crafting an epic tale that forms the bedrock of modern science fiction. Comprised of three remarkable novels— Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953)—this series is a monumental achievement that has captured the imagination of readers for decades. The story unfolds in a distant...

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is an enduring classic that has captivated readers for over a century and a half. This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honour, and daring exploits is set in France during the tumultuous 1620s. The novel follows the impetuous young d'Artagnan, who leaves his home in Gascony to join the revered Musketeers of the Guard. Upon...

This penultimate volume contains Shakespeare's later comedies, including The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure. The book provides a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times.

This volume presents a complete text of all Milton's verse. Coleridge linked Milton and Shakespeare as the greatest of English poets, and even in our time Milton continues to exert a powerful influence, both on the writing of poetry and on critical debate. When referencing the title, use The Complete English Poems without placing it in quotes or speech marks....

The everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the first volume of Comedies containing The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet (sic), and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays. Amid the 18th century's golden...

The original American in Paris. This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, has all the elements of great writing, brilliant plot, and gorgeous setting: An Edwardian gentleman from the States arrives in seedy and sophisticated Paris to rescue his wayward future step-son. But his innocent American background has not prepared him for such seduction......

This last volume contains Shakespeare's four last plays - The Tempest, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and Cymbeline. The text of the plays, with the Signet footnotes, is supplemented with bibliographies and a chronology of Shakespeare's life & times.

A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks.

The most famous vampire story ever written, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) has enthralled generations of readers as completely as Count Dracula enthrals his victims. Though Stoker did not invent vampires—and in fact based his character's life-in-death on extensive research into European folklore—his novel elevated the nocturnal monster to iconic stature, spawning a genre of stories and movies which flourishes to...

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance. Before he has even arrived home, he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with...

The Odyssey by Homer is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much-acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, "Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet." Introduced by Seamus Heaney.

This edition prints all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - in the recent English translation by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction and explanatory notes on each canto by the noted Dante scholar, Peter Armour. This is the only reasonably priced hardback edition of one of the world's greatest...

A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece, which when first published in 1991 was described by the Times as 'a miracle' and by The Independent as a nearly 'ideal translation'. The Brothers Karamazov—Dostoevsky's most widely read novel—is at once a murder mystery, a mordant comedy of family intrigue, a pioneering work of psychological realism, and an unblinking look into the...

Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many...

The most famous diarist in the English language, Samuel Pepys, kept a detailed record of his daily life between 1660 and 1669. Not only is it a key historical resource, but also a fascinating and entertaining read. Kate Loveman's selection, with helpful footnotes, is the only one-volume edition available. When Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began writing in 1660, he was a...

Michel De Montaigne's The Complete Works offers readers a profound journey into the mind of one of the most captivating figures in European literature. At its core, this collection presents Montaigne's Essays, which are richly infused with the author's insights and reflections as he delves into the essential themes of human existence. This masterful anthology not only showcases Montaigne's prowess...

One of Dickens's great middle period novels, in which fairy tale, melodrama, and realism mingle with hallucinatory power, Dombey And Son weaves together a number of stories centred around the family of the self-important merchant, Paul Dombey, and his children, Paul and Florence. Supplied with the usual extraordinary cast of Dickensian grotesques, both comic and sinister, the novel also features...

A beautiful hardback collection of Sherlock's most famous adventures. This beautiful hardback collection features the world's most famous detective in his most classic adventures. We begin with A Study in Scarlet, the novel that introduces the most famous characters in literature - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Then, in The Sign of Four, we delve into the East India Company...

The time for a revival of interest in the work of G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), a towering figure in the literary world of the early twentieth century, is long overdue. Novelist, journalist, short-story writer, essayist, biographer, critic, poet, and Catholic apologist, his was a many-faceted talent, as this generous selection made for Everyman by his biographer Ian Ker bears witness....

Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. In Oliver Twist, Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, full of prostitutes, thieves and lost and...

Published in 1825 after some three decades of consuming research, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book ever written about food. It remains among the most comprehensive, stimulating, and simply enjoyable works ever published on the subject of the senses and their pleasures. In a work spiced with style and wisdom, Brillat-Savarin declares that "Animals feed themselves; men...

The Complete Short Stories Of Mark Twain is the only edition in hardcover of Mark Twain's complete shorter fiction. Twain is a superb yarn-spinner, and his inimitable wit, nimble plotting, and unerring insight into human nature are on full display throughout this thoroughly entertaining volume. Mark Twain's famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman editions), have long...

Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. As punishment, she must wear a scarlet letter A (for "adultery"). Containing a number...

From the acclaimed translators of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov comes this superb translation of the short fiction of Nikolai Gogol, the nineteenth-century Russian master. Collected here are Gogol's finest tales—stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller—allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a...

The Decameron is structured in a frame narrative, or frame tale. Boccaccio begins with a description of the Black Death and a group of seven women and three men who flee from plague-ridden Florence to a villa in the (then) countryside of Fiesole for two weeks. To pass the time, each member of the party tells one story for each...

This extraordinary tale, set against the dramatic upheavals of the years after Napoleon, is more than an adventure story. It is an epic of justice, retribution, and self-discovery, matched only by Les Miserables in the France of its time. On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantes, master mariner, is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up charges and spirited away to...

Generally agreed to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century— and possibly any other— Proust's masterpiece is here presented in the latest revision to the classic Scott Moncrieff translation. On the surface, In Search of Lost Time is a traditional Bildungsroman describing the narrator's journey of self-discovery. This huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic...