Publisher's Synopsis
The Everyman’s Library 100 Essentials brings together a selection of 100 of the bestselling titles from the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works. An enduring hardcover library of classic and contemporary works from literature to history to philosophy, Everyman’s Library editions feature original introductions, up-to-date bibliographies, and complete chronologies of the authors’ lives and works.
This set includes one each of the following titles:
The Aeneidby Virgil
The Analectsby Confucius
Animal Farmby George Orwell
Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy
The Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy
The Audubon Readerby John James Audubon
Belovedby Toni Morrison
The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Windowby Raymond Chandler
Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfoldby Evelyn Waugh
The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flowerby Penelope Fitzgerald
The Border Trilogyby Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn Waugh
The Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoevsky
Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer
Carried Awayby Alice Munro
The Castleby Franz Kafka
Catch-22by Joseph Heller
Collected Storiesby Raymond Chandler
Collected Storiesby Roald Dahl
Collected Storiesby Franz Kafka
Collected Storiesby W. Somerset Maugham
The Complete Henry Bechby John Updike
The Complete Short Novelsby Anton Chekhov
The Complete Short Storiesby Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens
Democracy in Americaby Alexis de Tocqueville
The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri
Doctor Zhivagoby Boris Pasternak
Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes
Dublinersby James Joyce
Essaysby George Orwell
The Garden of the Finzi-Continisby Giorgio Bassani
The General in His Labyrinthby Gabriel Garcìa Márquez
Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens
The Handmaid’s Taleby Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad
The Historiesby Herodotus
A House for Mr. Biswasby V. S. Naipul
The House of the Spiritsby Isabel Allende
The Human Factorby Graham Greene
The Iliadby Homer
Jane Eyreby Charlotte Brontë
Joseph and His Brothersby Thomas Mann
The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playbackby Raymond Chandler
Lolitaby Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcìa Márquez
Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert
The Magic Mountainby Thomas Mann
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvestby Dashiell Hammett
Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius
Midnight’s Childrenby Salman Rushdie
The Mill on the Flossby George Eliot
Moby-Dickby Herman Melville
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamableby Samuel Beckett
Mr. Sampath–The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatmaby R. K. Narayan
Mrs. Dallowayby Virginia Woolf
My Ántoniaby Willa Cather
The Name of the Roseby Umberto Eco
Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell
The Odysseyby Homer
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Springby Penelope Fitzgerald
Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcìa Márquez
Pale Fireby Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to Indiaby E. M. Forster
The Periodic Tableby Primo Levi
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essaysby Albert Camus
Pninby Vladimir Nabokov
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manby James Joyce
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Storiesby James M. Cain
Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver’s Seat, The Only Problemby Muriel Spark
The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli
Rabbit Angstromby John Updike
The Radetzky Marchby Joseph Roth
The Republicby Plato
Rights of Man and Common Senseby Thomas Paine
The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
Speak, Memoryby Vladimir Nabokov
The Strangerby Albert Camus
Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The
English Teacherby R. K. Narayan
Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tzu
The Tale of Genjiby Murasaki Shikibu
A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Gameby Patricia Highsmith
The Trialby Franz Kafka
The Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith
The Woman Warrior and China Menby Maxine Hong Kingston
Things Fall Apartby Chinua Achebe
This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald
To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain
Ulyssesby James Joyce
Waldenby Henry David Thoreau
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Liveby Joan Didion
Zeno’s Conscienceby Italo Svevo
Everyman’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.
