books about: everyman

books about: everyman

books:

Everyman

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

Cormac Mccarthy

Everyman's Library, 1999

the single most influential series i've read in my life
Cormac McCarthy has the amazing abilitly to envoke emotion using description of action and place. One never gets inside of his characters heads directly (at least not in this particular series) and yet it is the most emotionaly powerful series i have ever encountered. ...

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

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 ...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Everyman's Library, 1995

A Horrifying Portrayal of Soviet Communist Oppression.
_One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich_, first published in the Soviet journal _Novy Mir_ in 1962, by the Nobel Prize winning Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a horrifying account of the life of a Russian prisoner in a Soviet labor-camp as he struggled to ...

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

Dante Alighieri

Everyman's Library, 1995

Superb Book!!!
This is such a GREAT book. I've decided to use it for my HS graduationn project. It is very in depth and provides a great recollection! It is just like the original Divine Comedy written by Dante hisself!!

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Philip Roth

Vintage, 2007

Death Comes
Reading through many of the already posted reviews, it seems many people missed something in reading this book. It is in fact a book about living and ceasing to live. Yet there is something far deeper in these pages. The temptations of sexuality, battles of personal ...

Brideshead Revisited (MTI) (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 2008

A book to be cherished again and again
This is a spectacular, beautifully written novel. I bought this hardcover edition because I wanted to read the introduction by Frank Kermode. It offered a lot of background information pertaining to the novel, as well as references to previous editions and a timeline ...

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library ...

James M. Cain

Everyman's Library, 2003

Welcome to the Inferno
Although Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are better known today, James M. Cain (1892-1977) is at least their equal--and many consider that he bested both in his finest novels, which combined sin-blacked characters, sordid plots, terse prose, and all the power of ...

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

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 ...

Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Vladimir Nabokov

Everyman's Library, 1993

A road movie of the mind
Praise be to Graham Greene, who was not only an interesting novelist (e.g. The Quiet American), but he also has the merit of saving Nabokov's Lolita from obscurity. When the book found no publisher in the US, it was first brought out by a shady Parisian company that ...

The Leopard (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Guiseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Everyman's Library, 1991

Decadence and langour bathing in sublime prose
The vigour and audacity of this novel is never compromised throughout its scope and vision, and moreover it is persistently haunted by spectres of an apocalyptic doom loitering lustfully. To read this novel is to witness the expression of a community in distress as it ...

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays

Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., 1993

Me, Myself, and Everyman
Everyman could be my next door neighbor. Seriously. He could be virtually anyone. This character appears on every television show, every comic strip, and in almost every movie. Why? Because the character "Everyman" IS every man. The trials and tribulations of ...

Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, ...

Everyman's Library, 1993

Crime and Punishment
The book arrived in excellent condition. I have not read it yet, but am anxiously waiting to read it. I am very happy that it had arrived in plenty of time.

Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library)

Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 1993

A Queer Theory Must!
As someone very interested in the field of Queer Theory, I was pleasantly surprised to pick up this book and discover such fascinating love relationships in the life of Charlie Ryder. Set between the two World Wars, Brideshead Revisited follows the life of Charlie ...

Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau (Everyman's Library)

Henry David Thoreau

Everymans Library, 2006

The Hobo Philosopher
My first copy of this book was indubitably from some other publisher. So I'm not commenting on this particular volume but the content of the work itself. I have always loved this book but it wasn't until recent years that I realized what a controversial book this was. ...

Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library)

Salman Rushdie

Everyman's Library, 1995

WHAT A RUSH(DIE)!
If this book was described by 1001 readers, I think you'd get 10,001 different views of what they experienced. Some knowledge of the history of India & Pakistan before and after independence and the partition will be helpful. Perhaps some "-ism" (magical real(ism), ...