Everymans Library 26-50 Alphabetical
Explore Everyman's Library books 26-50 in alphabetical order. Discover classic literature and timeless reads in this curated collection of world-renowned titles.
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Named one of Americaâs best-loved novels by PBSâs The Great American Read. One of the funniest books ever written, Joseph Heller's masterpiece about a bomber squadron in the Second World War's Italian theater features a gallery of magnificently strange characters seething with comic energy. The malingering hero, Yossarian, is endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war, and his story is studded with incidents and devices (including the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade and the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule that gives the book its title) that propel the narrative in a headlong satiric rush. But the reason Catch-22's satire never weakens and its jokes never date stems not from the comedy itself but from the savage, unerring, Swiftian indignation out of which that comedy springs. This fractured anti-epic, with all its aggrieved humanity, has given us the most enduring image we have of modern warfare. This hardcover Everyman's Library edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury, a chronology of the author's life and times, and a select bibliography. It is printed on acid-free paper, with sewn bindings, full-cloth covers, foil stamping, and a silk ribbon marker.
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Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume I
by Leo Tolstoy
Written over a period of more than half a century, Leo Tolstoyâs stories reflect every aspect of his art and personality. They cover his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his cult of truth and simplicity, and his growing preoccupation with religion. The stories in Volume 1 of the Collected Shorter Fiction date from the period in which the young Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Ranging from brief, masterfully sketches of military life such as âThe Wood-Fellingâ to novellas like Family Happiness, an uneasy imagining of the idyllic possibilities of marriage by the not-yet-married writer, all feature Tolstoyâs characteristically lavish deployment of detail, shrewd observation, and imaginative power.
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Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II
by Leo Tolstoy
Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoyâs short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russiaâs great novelist. Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals how Tolstoyâs growing spiritual preoccupations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces that equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of The Death of IvĂĄn IlĂ˝ch, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man, and Hadji MurĂĄd will recognize the brilliant novelist now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness. Aylmer and Louise Maudeâs classic translations are supplemented by new translations by Nigel J. Cooper of six stories, including two that have never before appeared in English.
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Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler
by Raymond Chandler
The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp magazines such as âBlack Maskâ before later writing his famous novels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled storiesâin which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous detective Philip MarloweâChandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance. This rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, and immerses the reader in the richly realized fictional universe that has become an enduring part of our literary landscape
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Collected Stories of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka
Collects Kafka's short stories and parables, each reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose.
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Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling
As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865Ââ1936) was possessed by an enormous subjectâIndiaâand his genius for rendering its beauty and strangeness was even then so fully formed that we have to look to the likes of Shakespeare and Dickens to find writers equally precocious. What is even more astonishing, and what this selection of stories from across his entire career reveals, is the way that his talent grew and developed over time. The work he did toward the end of his long writing life is even better than that which marked its splendid beginnings. The forty stories collected here range across a surprising variety of subjects and techniques. Here are his superb war stories, âMary Postgate,â âThe Gardener,â and âThe Drums of the Fore and Aft,â as well as his famous forays into horror in âThe Mark of the Beast,â science fiction in âWith the Night Mail,â and the ghost story in âThe House Surgeon.â âThe Man Who Would Be Kingâ is an unforgettable adventure tale, ââLove-oâ-Womenââ and âWithout Benefit of Clergyâ reveal his insight into love and passion, and âBaa Baa, Black Sheepâ is a searing revisiting of Kiplingâs childhood trauma. From the nightmarish allegory of âThe Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukesâ and the mystical visions in âThe Bridge-Buildersâ to the brilliant portrait of obsession and sacrifice in his masterpiece, âThe Wish House,â these stories showcase Kiplingâs remarkable narrative gifts.
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Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville
by Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic passions of Moby-Dick. In a story like "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- one of the very few perfect representatives of the form in the English language -- he displayed an unflinching precision and insight and empathy in his depiction of the drastically alienated inner life of the title character. In "Benito Cereno," he addressed the great racial dilemmas of the nineteenth century with a profound, almost surreal imaginative clarity. And in Billy, Budd, Sailor, the masterpiece of his last years, he fused the knowledge and craft gained from a lifetime's magnificent work into a pure, stark, flawlessly composed tale of innocence betrayed and destroyed. Melville is justly honored for the epic sweep of his mind, but his lyricism, his skill in rendering the minute, the particular, the local, was equally sublime.
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The Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poeâs gift for the macabreâhis genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingsâwas so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representâin contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanâthe other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility. (Jacket Status: Jacketed)