Книги Everyman

Frozen Assets | Will playboy Biffy avoid trouble until his thirtieth birthday in a few days’ time and inherit a vast fortune from his teetotal godfather who has stipulated that he must stay sober and ...

Far from the Madding Crowd | Regarded by many as Hardy's prose masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the tragi-comic story of a woman and three men. Bathsheba Everdene is courted by the brilliant...

A Prefect's Uncle | The uncle of the title is a mysterious stranger who arrives at Beckford College and turns out to be younger than his nephew, already a prefect at the school. Thus the scene is set ...

French Leave | Three American sisters leave their chicken farm on Long Island for a holiday in Europe. In France they encounter the charming but penniless Marquis de Maufringneuse, his writer son Jeff...

Blandings Castle | Take a pig, a fat-headed earl, a country house, several pairs of frustrated lovers, some scheming outsiders, and all sorts of people who aren’t who they say they are. Mix thoroughly...

The White Feather | In order to save his reputation and the honour of his house at school after he shames himself by running away from a fight between fellow pupils and toughs from the local town, a s...

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit | When Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and finds himself engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster threatens from all sides...

The Lover. Wartime Notebooks. Practicalities | Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after he...

Jane Eyre | Now a classic feminist text, Jane Eyre was the first of Charlotte Bronte’s novels to be published, in 1847. Like her sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights, which it matches in power, Charlotte’...

Heavy Weather | There is trouble afoot at Blandings Castle, with publishing magnate Lord Tilbury after Galahad Threepwood's sensational memoirs, and Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe in pursuit of Lord Emsw...

The Audubon Reader | John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard w...

The Transylvania Trilogy. Volume 1. They Were Counted | Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping,...

Olinger Stories | These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to his heart. Selected by the author from his first eigh...

Lucky Per | An unjustly neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably 'the great Danish novel' – but is only newly available in English. Social realism and fairy ...

Notes from a Dead House | In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated...

The House Of Mirth | Alone in the great social whirl of New York high society, with little but her wit and beauty to support her, Lily Bart pays the ultimate price for defying convention and the hoste...

Poems About Trees | For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them— and poets have long chronicled the relationship. In this collecti...

The Mating Season | When Bertie Wooster visits Deverill Hall pretending to be Gussie Fink-Nottle he finds himself in trouble. To begin with, there is the case of Esmond Haddock, JP, the squire of King...

Lord Emsworth and Others | A collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances, reminding us - if we need reminding - of their author's limitle...

Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde And Other Stories | The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant ...

Buzz Words. Poems About Insects | Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creep...

Fishing Stories | Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the comedy of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine...

The Travels of Marco Polo | Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He isone of the few early...

Company for Henry | Everyone in Company for Henry wants to escape from something. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country house on his millionaire American cousin, J. Wendell S...

The Small Bachelor | Would-be painter, George Finch, with lots of money and no talent, falls for lovely Molly Waddington who falls for him. Unfortunately, Molly's snobbish stepmother, Mrs Sigsbee H. W...

Peter Pan | Barrie's classic tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up. It started life as a series of stories made up for the five Llewelyn Davies boys, who were virtually adopted by Barrie after being or...

David Copperfield | David Copperfield – Dickens’s most celebrated novel, and the author’s own favourite – is the classic account of one boy growing up in a world which is by turns magical, fearful and...

The Pothunters | When someone breaks into the cricket pavilion and steals two silver cups, the whole school is agog. Could it possibly be an inside job? Nothing less than the honour of St Austin’s is ...

Mr Mulliner Speaking | More stories about the incredible Mulliner clan, following on from Meet Mr Mulliner. This volume includes such classic Wodehouse tales as ‘The Man Who Gave Up Smoking’, ‘The Awf...

Candide and Other Stories | The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire’s Candide,...

The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis | It is the autobiography of Giorgio Bassani, told in a time span of around 15 years, a time where the ambiguous and mysterious female figure of Micol was a central pa...

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories | This substantial collection of early stories displays a variety of tone, style and setting which may surprise readers familiar only with the author's later light c...

The Age Of Innocence | Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newlan...

Very Good, Jeeves! | Very Good, Jeeves! is a collection of short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to be rescued by his peerless gentleman’s gentleman. ...

Selected Writings | Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, s...

Sherlock Homes | ‘Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver – S. H.’ The g...

The English Patient | Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death, and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - ...

The Count of Monte Cristo | On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantes, master mariner, is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up charges and spirited away to the cellars of the Chateau d'If, an impregnabl...

Germinal | Despite the grimness of his subject and the accuracy of his description, Zola tells an irresistible tale of life above and below ground among the mining families of Montsou. By turns heroic...

Snow | Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear the...

Scottish Stories | Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from...

If This Is A Man. The Truce | Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. If This is a Man describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend wo...

Love Among the Chickens | This is the tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse’s favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coas...

Bill the Conqueror | When Bill West of New York falls in love with the statuesque Alice Coker, his promise to look after her dissipated brother Judson has unexpected results. With Judson under his win...

The Mayor Of Casterbridge | D H Lawrence remarked that Hardy's best novels were about 'the struggle into love and the struggle with love', and The Major of Castlebridge is no exception. One of the lon...

Dr Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and co...

Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical...

Tristram Shandy | This ribald, high-spirited novel, whose author was described by Diderot as 'the Rabelais of the English', provoked literary scandal when it was first published in 1760. With its inge...

A Passage To India | A Passage to India, published in 1924 and set in British India in the years immediately preceding, is a powerful critique of both colonizers and colonized. A story of racial and p...

Three Novels of Ancient Egypt. Khufu’s Wisdom. Rhadopis of Nubia. Thebes at War | From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the three magnificent novels – published in an omnibus edition for the first time ...

Complete Shorter Fiction | Published to Coincide with the Becentenary of Horace Walpole's Death Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies for...

The Wealth of Nations | Published in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith’s cele...

The Sound and the Fury | The Sound and the Fury is a brilliant and lyrical virtuoso narrative in which Faulkner chronicles the decline of the American South through the experiences of Benjy Compson, w...

Russian Stories | Two centuries of short stories by twenty-five titans of Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Tatyana Tolstaya and Svetlana Alexievich, in the beautifully designed Pocket Cla...

Buddenbrooks | First published in 1901, when Thomas Mann was only twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to...

The Adventures Of Augie March | The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-...

Women In Love | Women in Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a sense of background danger, of lurking ...

My Name is Red | The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Becau...

The Essays | Includes 'The Freedom of the Press', intended as the preface to 'Animal Farm' but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell's most important essay. These essays dem...

Barnaby Rudge | The first of Dickens's historical novels, Barnaby Rudge, written in 1841, is set at the time of the anti-Catholic riots of 1780, with the real Lord George Gordon, leader of the riots, ...

Ring for Jeeves | The only Jeeves story in which Bertie Wooster makes no appearance, involves Jeeves on secondment as butler and general factotum to William Belfry, ninth Earl of Rowcester (pronounced...

Dubliners | The last story in this book, The Dead, is one of the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that the English language possesses; and the other stories are as beautifully turned...

Books and Libraries. Poems | A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books & Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the ...

The Adolescent | This superb new translation-never before published-of one of Dostoevsky's major novels comes from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Adolescent ...