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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)

38 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Everyman's Library, 1999

Perfect presentation of a perfect story
Just one example of the prose which has prompted me to read this three times: PAGE 141 OF "ALL THE PRETTY HORSES" (punctuation is as the author intended) "...They'd ride at night up along the western mesa two hours from the ranch and sometimes he'd build a fire and they could see the gaslights at the hacienda gates far below them floating in a pool of black and sometimes the lights seemed ...

The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)

52 reviews
Dante Alighieri

Everyman's Library, 1995

The Best Single Volume Available Today
First. The Divine Comedy is an ur-text: one of the select few that have been passed down through centuries, almost millenia, to create a foundation on which is built our Western literary tradition. Second. Allen Mandelbaum's translation is excellent. It has the readability of prose but stays lyrical. It does not strain itself to be lyrical, though, as I think Ciardi's translation does too ...

Love Letters (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

3 reviews

Everyman's Library, 1996

A terrific little Compilation!
Not only has this book been a fantastic source of beautiful quotes to share with my beloved, reading through it and using some of the letters it contains as a model has helped me express my feelings for her more eloquently. Well organized and easy to use as a reference book, this handy little volume has love letters written by a large assortment of authors, poets, celebrities, and historical ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1368 reviews
George Orwell

Everyman's Library, 1992

Holy S$$T, thats pretty much it.
After getting the opportunity to finally soak in this book, I am beside myself that there are even bad reviews for it. There is just two reasons that are possible for bad reviews. One, they are on crack and two, they are jealous that they are unable to write like Orwell.

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library)

23 reviews
Naguib Mahfouz

Everyman's Library, 2001

Great book for a long trip
Naguib Mahfouz relates a distant time in a far away place with simple sentences and rich details. He relates the breadth of human experience equally well, offering depth and understanding of women as well as men. For the first time I feel that I have some understanding of the daily life of Muslim men and women. If you want to laugh, read this book. If you want to cry, read this book. If ...

Things Fall Apart (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

526 reviews
Chinua Achebe

Everyman's Library, 1995

A classic, with good reason
This is an extraordinary book in its ability to narrate both a story of cultural dissonance and an overarching tale about the human condition. Achebe's novel broaches the subject of morality, but demonstrates that even the concept of "evil" is subject to a cultural interpretive context. Okonkwo, the book's tragic hero, is an emblem of tradition, but also represents how tradition can be ...

The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library)

213 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyman's Library, 1992

Amazing
"All religions are based upon this desire and I am a believer." He comes as close as any author to expressing truth in fiction.

David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

5 reviews
Irene Nemirovsky

Everyman's Library, 2008

Exceptional Reading
There are many reasons for loving a book ... of course content, the manner in which the author has painted a picture for the reader, a love for the time period in which a story is set, perhaps a specific character - heaven knows - I have fallen in love with a protagonist in my younger days. With this book, aside from all the talent that the words spread on the pages, I love the book. The ...

The Complete Novels (Everyman's Library)

4 reviews
Flann O'Brien

Everyman's Library, 2008

One of the Best Irish Writers
On the dust jacket for The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien, the author is lumped in with Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, perhaps the two most famous figures in Irish literature. It's lofty company to be sure, but for most Beckett and especially Joyce are tough mountains to climb. I will readily admit that a lot of what is going with the works of Beckett and Joyce go over my head. I needed a ...

The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

519 reviews
Albert Camus

Everyman's Library, 1993

Dispassionately Compelling
Like most of Camus' works, The Stranger's plot is simple but the meaning is trivially existentialist and compelling. The Stranger begins with the death of narrator Meursault's mother. After napping on the bus to her retirement home, Meursault is disengaged and unmoved by the vigil and funeral procession, and continues to be until the finale of his trial. Meursault appears insensitive ...

Doctor Zhivago (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

79 reviews
Boris Pasternak

Everyman's Library, 1991

Pasternak v. Reader, Round II
My first reading of Dr. Zhivago was in high school. At 15, the book was a chore. Impenetrable and numerous Russian names (often for the same character) and endless description of the Russian landscape left me exhausted and unimpressed. After rereading and enjoying a few other high school assignments, I came across Dr. Zhivago on my bookshelf and wondered if I would find more appreciation for Mr. ...

The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

269 reviews
Umberto Eco

Everyman's Library, 2006

murder mystery masterpiece
This story very much appealed to the role-playing game aficionado in me. The atmosphere felt both elaborate and decrepit with a tinge of ancient tradition. The period and location definitely played a major role in dressing the characters. As a consequence, they are left with no choice but to exhibit their true nature. Carefully planned but never felt contrived. Exquisite example of Eco handiwork.

The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)

5 reviews
Albert Camus

Everyman's Library, 2004

Love, Exile, and Suffering Illuminated by Life around Death
What is the meaning of life? For many, that question is an abstraction except in the context of being aware of losing some of the joys of life, or life itself. In The Plague, Camus creates a timeless tale of humans caught in the jaws of implacable death, in this case a huge outbreak of bubonic plague in Oran, Algeria on the north African coast. With the possibility of dying so close, each ...

The Complete Works (Everyman's Library)

6 reviews
Michel de Montaigne

Everyman's Library, 2003

Complete -- at last!
Donald Frame's translations of Montaigne's essays have long been considered one of the two finest contemporary translations available, M.A. Screech's excellent version being the other. The essays speak for themselves, or at least should. Their popularity is well known and well deserved, and there are a number of fine essay collections available. What's great about this edition is that included ...

Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

448 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Everyman's Library, 1993

A Meditation on the Value of Art
After 444 mostly highly praised reviews of this seminal piece of fiction, I will spare the reader any short-ordered synopsis or frugal summary. Plus, there are quite a lot of surprises to be had for a first-time reader with no knowledge of the book. If you can, distance yourself from too much familiarity with the plot and enjoy this masterly crafted novel with an open-mind. Of course it is ...

Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

43 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd

Everyman's Library, 1999

Bewitching.
Personally, I like everything Nabokov did if only because reading him makes me a better writer. He is a "master stylist" cut from the cloth of James Joyce (in terms of his innovation and talent) who challenges his audience at every turn. When devouring his fiction, I am sure that there are many things I miss due to my being no great genius of literary analysis, but time with Nabokov is invariably ...

The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

2 reviews
P.G. Wodehouse

Everyman's Library, 2007

Some information
I don't own this anthology, just became aware of it half an hour ago, but a little Googling reveals that it comes in at about 500 pages. Introduction by John Mortimer. It contains two complete novels, one Jeeves and one Blandings Castle: The code of the Woosters (1938) and Uncle Fred in the springtime (1939); along with 14 stories: Jeeves takes charge, Jeeves and the impending doom, The love that ...

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game (Everyman's Library)

30 reviews
Patricia Highsmith

Everyman's Library, 1999

existential insight into a troubled mind
Loved the three books contained in this volume. Engrossing stories about a man with a troubled mind who lives a very pleasant and noremal life, ... except for a few excursions into murder. The hero is the villan, an unusual twist to the thriller mystery novel.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

133 reviews
Italo Calvino

Everyman's Library, 1993

Entertaining and Ingenious
Yes, this book requires thought to fully understand. However, it is not tedious, as some have claimed it is. It's ingenuity and novelty keep it entertaining, even at parts that otherwise would be boring. Regardless, it will definitely change the way you think about literature, writing, and reading (if you're a casual reader and not an academic, of course).

Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library)

27 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 1993

Enchanting!
If you love the BBC TV mini-series based on Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited", it's not an option not to own this book! While the script and dialogue almost follow line by line from the novel, it is an immense pleasure to read the actual novel and savour Waugh's witty and delightful writing style. His education at Lancing and Hertford College at Oxford, comes through vividly in the book ...

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