Everymans Library 76-100 Alphabetical
Explore the Everyman's Library 76-100 collection: alphabetical literary classics featuring Orwell's Essays, Waugh's A Handful of Dust, and Lermontov's timeless fiction.
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Orwell: Essays
by George Orwell
A generous and varied selectionâthe only hardcover edition availableâof the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwellâs famous discussion of pacifism, âMy Country Right or Leftâ; his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in âShooting an Elephantâ; and his very firm opinion on how to make âA Nice Cup of Tea.â In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideasâhis desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in languageâare as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever.
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A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
A satire of decadence among the English upper class depicts the breakup of a marriage among London's gentry, following the changing relationship between Tony Last, who is obsessed with his Victorian gothic country estate, and his wife, Lady Brenda, who, bored with her husband, embarks on an affair with an ambitious social climber.
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A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov
In its adventurous happeningsâits abductions, duels, and sexual intriguesâA Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and â30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorinâthe archetypal Russian antiheroâLermontovâs novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible. This edition includes a Translatorâs Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who translated the novel in collaboration with his son, Dmitri Nabokov.
