Contemporary World Literature The African Trilogy; House of the Spirits; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Cairo Trilogy; A House for Mr. Biswas; Midnight's Children - Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Chinua Achebe, Isabel Allende, Gabriel García Márquez, Naguib Mahfouz, V. S. Naipaul

Hardback (21 Dec 2010)

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Publisher's Synopsis

An extraordinary collection of renowned world literature including Nobel Prize winners and beloved fiction writers in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers.

Titles included:
The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

About the Publisher

Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library was founded on 15th February 1906 with the publication by Joseph Dent (1849-1926) of fifty titles. Dent, a master bookbinder turned publisher, was a classic Victorian autodidact. The tenth child of a Darlington house-painter, he had left school at thirteen, and arrived in London with a half crown in his pocket. He promised to publish new and beautiful editions of the world's classics at one shilling a volume, 'to appeal to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman' so that 'for a few shillings the reader may have a whole bookshelf of the immortals for five pounds (which will procure him a hundred volumes) a man may be intellectually rich for life'. 'Infinite riches in a little room', as he also put it.

Book information

ISBN:	9780307700827
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:	Everyman's Library
Pub date:	21 Dec 2010
Weight:	4354g
Height:	302mm
Width:	226mm
Spine width:	152mm