50 Book Literary Classics Library
This set of 50 books from Everyman's Library, carefully chosen by our curators, will fill any room with the most influential literature in history. Each set will vary slightly, but every collection will include novels that span time and genre with books for every kind of reader. The set, a true centerpiece of any home, is an heirloom worth passing on to loved ones, and owners will find endless wisdom and entertainment within the thousands of pages.
Everyman's Library offers these novels as beautifully bound volumes with easy-to-read typography, acid-free paper, sewn cloth bindings, silk ribbon markers, and European half-round spines.
Please contact us if you would like to create custom jackets for your set of 50.
Please note: Below is only an example list of titles. Each set will try to include the 50 titles and authors in the list below, but we will pull your set based on availability at the time of your order. If you would like to choose the books you receive, please contact customer service, and they will discuss a custom curation price based on your wish list.
- The African Trilogy (Things Fall Apart; No Longer at Ease; Arrow of God) by Chinua Achebe
- The Oresteia by Aeschylus
- The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Audubon Reader by John James Audubon
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
- The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
- Shirley; The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; Playback by Raymond Chandler
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- Collected Stories by Roald Dahl
- The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle' by Charles Darwin
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- The Complete English Poems of John Donne by John Donne
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Bookshop; The Gate of Angels; The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Woman Warrior; China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville by Herman Melville
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien by Flann O'Brien
- The Best of Frank O'Connor by Frank O'Connor
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
- Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
- Journey to the Center of the Earth; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; 'Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
SKU: EL50
Weight: 85.0 lb
Width: 5.25 feet x Height: 8.25 inches x Depth: 5.25 inches