Category: Everyman's Library [P]

The Sicilian prince, Don Fabrizio, hero of Lampedusa's great and only novel, is described as enormous in size, in intellect, and in sensuality. The book he inhabits shares his dimensions in its evocation of an aristocracy confronting democratic upheaval and the new force of nationalism. In the decades since its publication shortly after the author's death in 1957, The Leopard has come to be regarded as the twentieth century's greatest historical fiction.

Introduction by David Gilmour; Translation by Archibald Colquhoun

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

The Tin Drum (Everyman's Library)

By: Gunter Grass

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Everyman's Library: May-93

Seller ID: 488060

ISBN: 679420339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

No slipcase.
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Guard of Honor (Modern Library)

By: James Gould Cozzens

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Modern Library: May-98

Seller ID: 432123

ISBN: 679603050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Maples Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics)

By: John Updike

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Everyman's Library: Aug-09

Seller ID: 482618

ISBN: 307271765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dubliners

By: Joyce, James

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oct-12

Seller ID: 476427

ISBN: 679405747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Tao Te Ching

By: Lao-Tzu

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Mar-14

Seller ID: 440860

ISBN: 679433163

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Cairo Trilogy

By: Mahfouz, Naguib

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 459113

ISBN: 375413316

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Collected Stories

By: Maugham, W. Somerset

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Jun-11

Seller ID: 482649

ISBN: 1400042534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories.

Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached the pinnacle of his art. These expertly told tales, with their addictive plot twists and vividly drawn characters, are both galvanizing as literature and wonderfully entertaining. In the adventures of his alter ego Ashenden, a writer who (like Maugham himself) turned secret agent in World War I, as well as in stories set in ...
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