Everyman’s Library announces new classics for autumn 2008
Everyman’s Library publishes five new additions to its Classics and Contemporary Classics series this autumn.
This is a wide-ranging collection of stories that highlights the complex lives of men and women in a modern, often alienating, world. Included are seminal stories like To Room Nineteen, One off the Short List and The Habit of Loving as well as two classic novellas, The Temptation of Jack Orkney and The Other Woman, which exemplify Lessing’s impressive understanding of human psychology. Rich and various in mood and background, these stories powerfully convey uncompromising insight, intelligence and vision.
Everyman’s Library publishes five new additions to its Classics and Contemporary Classics series this autumn.
The new titles, published this October and November, include story collections from modern greats Doris Lessing, Irène Némirovsky and Alice Munro and a selection of tales from Russian master Nikolai Gogol in a new translation by the highly acclaimed Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Also published is a new edition of the writings of the legendary Marco Polo, the original travel writer.
These classics are accompanied by a set of new introductions, written by award-winning writers such as Margaret Atwood, Clare Messud and Colin Thubron. Information on each new title is listed below.
New titles in October 2008
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair by Irène Némirovsky
With a new introduction by Clare Messud
Published: 2nd October, £12.99
Here in one volume are four of Némirovsky’s novels, all of which offer a mastery of narrative and empathetic grasp of human behaviour. David Golder is a novel about greed and loneliness, whilst The Ball is both a sensitive exploration of adolescence and a merciless exposure of bourgeois social pretension. Snow in Autumn is an evocative tale of White Russian emigrés in Paris, while in The Courilof Affair a retired Russian revolutionary recalls an infamous assassination committed in his youth.
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
With a new introduction by Margaret Atwood
Published: 2nd October, £12.99
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories – seventeen favourites chosen by the author over 25 years. Set in her native southwest Ontario, the stories in Carried Away include Royal Beatings, Friend of My Youth and The Love of a Good Woman, in which a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry when an old crime resurfaces. In this selection, Munro’s unassuming characters take permanent hold of our imaginations whilst the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to richly layered and capacious fiction. Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of the greatest living writers.
These classics are accompanied by a set of new introductions, written by award-winning writers such as Margaret Atwood, Clare Messud and Colin Thubron. Information on each new title is listed below.
New titles in October 2008
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair by Irène Némirovsky
With a new introduction by Clare Messud
Published: 2nd October, £12.99
Here in one volume are four of Némirovsky’s novels, all of which offer a mastery of narrative and empathetic grasp of human behaviour. David Golder is a novel about greed and loneliness, whilst The Ball is both a sensitive exploration of adolescence and a merciless exposure of bourgeois social pretension. Snow in Autumn is an evocative tale of White Russian emigrés in Paris, while in The Courilof Affair a retired Russian revolutionary recalls an infamous assassination committed in his youth.
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
With a new introduction by Margaret Atwood
Published: 2nd October, £12.99
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories – seventeen favourites chosen by the author over 25 years. Set in her native southwest Ontario, the stories in Carried Away include Royal Beatings, Friend of My Youth and The Love of a Good Woman, in which a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry when an old crime resurfaces. In this selection, Munro’s unassuming characters take permanent hold of our imaginations whilst the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to richly layered and capacious fiction. Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of the greatest living writers.
The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian by Marco Polo
Newly revised edition with introduction by Colin Thubron
Published: 2nd October, £14.99
Popular since the Middle Ages, Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo portrays countries and cities all along the trade route from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. The book is striking in its clarity, realism and tolerance and this new Everyman’s Library edition explains clearly all the references in the book. It shows in detail with new maps, the routes described from Venice to Beijing, from Beijing to Burma, and from Beijing to south-east China. It also provides an up-to-date history of the book and the controversies surrounding it.
The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol.
New translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky with introduction by Richard Pevear
Published: 2nd October, £12.99
Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales which contain his own unique blend of satire and realism, stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller. All of Gogol’s most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat and the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.
New titles in November 2008
Stories by Doris Lessing
With a new introduction by Margaret Atwood
Published: 28th November, £14.99
Newly revised edition with introduction by Colin Thubron
Published: 2nd October, £14.99
Popular since the Middle Ages, Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo portrays countries and cities all along the trade route from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. The book is striking in its clarity, realism and tolerance and this new Everyman’s Library edition explains clearly all the references in the book. It shows in detail with new maps, the routes described from Venice to Beijing, from Beijing to Burma, and from Beijing to south-east China. It also provides an up-to-date history of the book and the controversies surrounding it.
The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol.
New translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky with introduction by Richard Pevear
Published: 2nd October, £12.99
Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales which contain his own unique blend of satire and realism, stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller. All of Gogol’s most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat and the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.
New titles in November 2008
Stories by Doris LessingWith a new introduction by Margaret Atwood
Published: 28th November, £14.99
This is a wide-ranging collection of stories that highlights the complex lives of men and women in a modern, often alienating, world. Included are seminal stories like To Room Nineteen, One off the Short List and The Habit of Loving as well as two classic novellas, The Temptation of Jack Orkney and The Other Woman, which exemplify Lessing’s impressive understanding of human psychology. Rich and various in mood and background, these stories powerfully convey uncompromising insight, intelligence and vision.
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