Publisher's Synopsis
From Chinua Achebe to Toni Morrison and Raymond Chandler to Joan Didion, the Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics set is a collection of the finest literature of our time by award-winning and bestselling writers with new introductions and author chronologies.
This set includes one each of the following titles:
Animal Farmby George Orwell
Belovedby Toni Morrison
The Best of Wodehouseby P. G. Wodehouse
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 Cairo Trilogyby Naguib Mahfouz
Carried Awayby Alice Munro
The Castleby Franz Kafka
Catch-22by Joseph Heller
Collected Storiesby Franz Kafka
Collected Storiesby Raymond Chandler
Collected Storiesby Roald Dahl
Collected Storiesby W. Somerset Maugham
The Collected Worksby Kahlil Gibran
The Complete Henry Bechby John Updike
The Complete Short Storiesby Evelyn Waugh
The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Storiesby Dashiell Hammett
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Doctor Zhivagoby Boris Pasternak
Dublinersby James Joyce
Essaysby George Orwell
Ficcionesby Jorge Luis Borges
The Garden of the Finzi-Continisby Giorgio Bassani
The General in His Labyrinthby Gabriel Garcìa Márquez
The Handmaid’s Taleby Margaret Atwood
A House for Mr. Biswasby V. S. Naipaul
The House of the Spiritsby Isabel Allende
The Human Factorby Graham Greene
If On a Winter's Night a Travelerby Italo Calvino
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
The Magic Mountainby Thomas Mann
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvestby Dashiell Hammett
The Master and Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov
Midnight’s Childrenby Salman Rushdie
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
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Springby Penelope Fitzgerald
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
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver’s Seat, The Only Problemby Muriel Spark
Rabbit Angstromby John Updike
The Radetzky Marchby Joseph Roth
Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
Sons and Loversby D. H. Lawrence
Speak, Memoryby Vladimir Nabokov
The Strangerby Albert Camus
Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacherby R. K. Narayan
The Sword of Honour Trilogyby Evelyn Waugh
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Gameby Patricia Highsmith
Things Fall Apartby Chinua Achebe
This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at Warby Naguib Mahfouz
To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf
The Trialby Franz Kafka
Ulyssesby James Joyce
Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writingby Evelyn Waugh
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Liveby Joan Didion
The Woman Warrior, China Menby Maxine Hong Kingston
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.
