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1984 by George Orwell
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes by Kate Greenaway
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie," " along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes. Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both ...Show more
A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BO by DICKENS CHARLES
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham's classic illustrations. No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfi ...Show more
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library
Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of these poems whilst ill in bed, and the illustrations were first published shortly after his death.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Category: Children's | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the ...Show more
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
With an introduction by author Teju Cole, A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and darkly comic, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the ...Show more
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell
Category: Travel | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides recounts their tour of Scotland in 1773. While Johnson focuses on Scotland itself, Boswell is even keener on presenting his friend to the notables of his homeland. Together they form a co ...Show more
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to Indiais published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and pr ...Show more
A Pelican At Blandings by WODEHOUSE P G
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, sank back in his chair looking like the good old man in a Victorian melodrama whose mortgage the villain had just foreclosed. He felt the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanied the departure of one of his sisters. Lord Emsworth needed Galahad. There a ...Show more