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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 4d

This week, we publish Party Stories, a festive collection of celebrations and soirees in literature. From Natasha’s first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to Hoover consorting with Capote in DeLillo’s ‘The Black and White Ball’. www.penguin.co.uk/books/469040...

Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 5d

Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802, the son of a formerly enslaved man from Haiti and an innkeeper’s daughter. While employed by the future French king, he wrote his best-known works, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/405885...
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

This Black History Month, we’re celebrating some of the best loved and most acclaimed Black writers. Where better to start than with Chinua Achebe’s African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God.

#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackClassics
www.penguin.co.uk/books/408974...

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 8d

What ho! We're celebrating 25 years of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with a special vintage edition. Please welcome Claudia Winkleman, Patrick Grant, Sindhu Vee, Tatty Macleod and, our Chair of Judges, Peter Florence.
Vintage Bollinger Prize announced 1st Dec!
#BEWPrize25

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 9d

In Heart of Darkness, Conrad explores the corrupting influence of power and racism in a horrifying story of colonial exploitation. Marlowe's encounter with Kurtz, an idealist crazed by power, prompts him to reflect on the eponymous darkness at the heart of all men www.penguin.co.uk/books/372993...

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 13d

Today, we publish a collected edition of Joyce Cary’s Sara Monday trilogy: Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse's Mouth. These unforgettable narrative voices offer a sweeping vision of the early 1900s that is lyrical, profane, tragic, and comic all at once www.penguin.co.uk/books/469581...

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 16d

On Thursday, we publish Fruits of the Earth. This cornucopia of harvest poetry includes many beloved old chestnuts, including Robert Frost’s ‘After Apple-Picking’, Emily Dickinson’s ‘Forbidden Fruit a flavor has’, and William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/471850...

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 18d

In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, lured South by tales of buried treasure, Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead embarks on a personal odyssey. Raised by a status-obsessed father and dealing with a friend bent on racial revenge, now it's Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/373035...

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 21d

Sons and Lovers, once dismissed as little more than pornography, is now regarded as DH Lawrence’s autofiction masterpiece. Set in his native Nottinghamshire, it is a compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/372841...

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 23d

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice the first to be written, when Jane was just twenty-one.

Revised for publication 13 years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the charming heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/372820...

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 27d

Ada concludes with an ingenious appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom. Ada, published just after Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, is the supreme work of a virtuosic imagination at white heat.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470836...

Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 27d

Today we publish Ada by Vladimir Nabokov.
This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it is also a fairy tale, an epic, a treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470836...

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 29d

We’re heading back to school and university this month, with a collections of classics that many of us first encountered as student readers.
Which will you revisit? 
📚 Pride and Prejudice
📚 Heart of Darkness
📚 Great Expectations
📚 Sons and Lovers
📚 Song of Solomon

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Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 7

Last week, we published this beautiful new edition of two classic Philip Pullman stories, I Was A Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers, and The Scarecrow and his Servant. With tactile clothbound hard covers, these illustrations are colourised for the first time.

 www.penguin.co.uk/books/468068...

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · Apr 24

Joyce Cary, Herself Surprised / To Be a Pilgrim / The Horse's Mouth ( @everymanslibrary.bsky.social, @aaknopf.bsky.social, 2025): www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787897...

Herself Surprised; To Be a Pilgrim; The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary: 9798217007592 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The only one-volume edition of Cary's classic trilogy, in which three remarkably different characters narrate their interlocking stories across half a century in a gloriously inventive and dazzling tr...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Apr 30

#BookSky

I am filling a pothole in my road of poetry knowledge. It's a far cry from Lord Tennyson. I suspect some of these people dallied with proscribed substances.
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