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Introduction by John Leonard

For the first time—all of Joan Didion’s nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 gathered together in one volume.

Celebrated in the worlds of journalism, literature, and film, and for her stunning memoir,The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion is first and foremost one of America’s iconic nonfictionwriters. Across the four decades of her writing career, she has been a uniquely incisiveobserver of a kaleidoscope of cultural moments: Haight-Ashbury, Joan Baez, Los Angeles,the Manson family, and the Black Panthers in the ’60s and ’70s; California earthquakes andfires and the Central Park jogger case in the ’80s; Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr, George W. Bush and his “compassionate conservatism” in the ’90s and beyond. Here, too,are her illuminating book-length explorations of Miami and California, and Americans in El Salvador. Comprising seven of her books in their entirety—Slouching Towards Bethlehem,The White Album, Salvador, Miami, After Henry, Political Fictions, and Where I Was From—WeTell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live is a seminal collection of writing about America in the20th century.

Joan Didion lives in New York City. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in2005 for The Year of Magical Thinking.

John Leonard is the books editor at Harper’s Magazine and former editor of The New YorkTimes Book Review.

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From the Introduction by John Leonard:

“I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion’s] sentences are better than mine oryours… something about cadence. They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus,ice pick laser beams, or waves. Even the space on the page around these sentences is more interest-ing than it ought to be, as if to square a sandbox for a Sphinx . . .

“Looking back, it seems to me that The Year of Magical Thinking should not have come as a surprise.All these years, Didion has been writing about loss. All these years, she has been rehearsing death.Her whole career has been a disenchantment from which pages fall like brilliant autumn leaves andarrange themselves as sermons in the stones.”

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T H E N A M E O F T H E R O S ETranslated from the Italian by William Weaver

Introduction by David Lodge

Aspectacular international best seller—“Explodes with pyrotechnic inventions . . .irresistible” (The New York Times Book Review)—an erudite murder mystery set in a

14th-century monastery, a brilliant exploration of medieval philosophy, history, theology,and logic.

In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate a wealthy Italian abbey whosemonks are suspected of heresy. When his mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths patterned on the Book of Revelation, Brother William turns detective, following the trail of a conspiracy that brings him face-to-face with the abbey’s labyrinthine secrets. Caughtbetween the emperor he serves and the pope who rules the Church, Brother William comesto see that more than the outcome of a political dispute is at stake—his investigation isbeing blocked by those who fear imagination, curiosity, and the power of ideas.

The Name of the Rose is at once an ingeniously constructed mystery—complete with secretsymbols and coded manuscripts—and an unparalleled portrait of the medieval world on thebrink of profound transformation.

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. He lives in Milan.

David Lodge is the author of Changing Places, Nice Work, Small World, and Author, Author.

U M B E R T O

From the Introduction by David Lodge:

“[The Name of the Rose] is an example of that rare publishing phenomenon, the literary mega-best-seller which transcends linguistic boundaries . . . A rival publisher commented: ‘It’s not marketing,so it must be something in the book.’ Indeed. Something like: a gripping mystery, vivid characteri-zation, an atmospheric setting, fascinating period detail, sly humour, dramatic confrontations, stunning set pieces, and a supple, eloquent prose that can shift its register to encompass the experience of faith, doubt, horror, erotic ecstasy, and despair.”

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Introduction by Margaret Atwood

Adazzling selection of stories—17 favorites picked by the author—ranging across her distinguished career.

“One of the living colossi of the modern short story” (The New York Times), Alice Munro nowjoins the canon of Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics with this new volume. The storiesbrought together in Carried Away span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest collections—The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter—through her most recent, the best-selling Runaway. Munro’s incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her under-standing of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction inhabited by women, men, and children who insinuate themselvesinto our hearts and take permanent hold.

Alice Munro is the author of more than 10 story collections and a novel. She lives inClinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.

Margaret Atwood is the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake.

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From the Introduction by Margaret Atwood:

“Alice Munro is without doubt among the major writers of English fiction of our time. She’s beenaccorded armfuls of super-superlatives by critics in both North America and the United Kingdom,she’s won many awards, and she has a devoted international readership. Among writers themselves,her name is spoken in hushed tones. Most recently she’s been used as a stick to flog the enemy with,in various inter-writerly combats. ‘You call this writing?’ the floggers say, in effect. ‘Alice Munro!Now that’s writing!’ She’s the kind of writer about whom it is often said—no matter how well-known she becomes—that she ought to be better known.”

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T H E H A N D M A I D ’ S TA L EIntroduction by Valerie Martin

A20th-century literary landmark by the Booker Prize–winning author—a gripping visionof our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution. “A novel that brilliantly

illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex.” —The WashingtonPost Book World

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmaticCommander and his bitter wife. In a society where women are no longer allowed to read, andat a time of declining birth rates, she must pray that the Commander makes her pregnantsince she is valued only for her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously pollutedColonies. Offred can remember “before,” when she lived with her husband and daughter andwhen she had a job and access to knowledge, before she lost even her own name. Now shenavigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life to breakthe rules.

Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, The Handmaid’sTale is a scathing satire, a dire warning, and a tour de force.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty-five works of fiction, poetry, and essays. She lives in Toronto. She won the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin.

Valerie Martin is the author of Italian Fever, Mary Reilly, and Property.

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From the Introduction by Valerie Martin:

“Greeted with both critical acclaim and popular success, [The Handmaid’s Tale] was hailed as thatmost oxymoronic of hybrids, the ‘instant classic’ . . .

“Twenty years have passed and a vision that once seemed wildly imaginative has become weirdlyprescient . . . Though the rise of Christian fundamentalism in the United States has not resulted inthe creation of a thoroughly unrecognizable nation, some similarities to the Republic of Gilead areso evident as to be disturbing . . . The answer to the question of what makes a novel an ‘instant classic’ is this: its timeliness increases with time.”

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C O L L E C T E D S T O R I E SIntroduction by Jeremy Treglown

The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl’s stories for adults.

“An artist with a marvelously topsy-turvy sense of the ridiculous in life” (Cleveland PlainDealer), the author of the immortal children’s books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory andJames and the Giant Peach also had a genius for adult short fiction. Filled with unexpectedtwists and devilish humor, his tales display a singularly tantalizing blend of macabre comedyand the absurdly grotesque. From “The Landlady,” about an unusual boardinghouse that features a small but very permanent clientele, to “Pig,” a brutally funny look at vegetarianism,to “Man from the South,” in which a fanatical gambler does his betting with hammer, nails,and a butcher’s knife, Dahl’s creations amuse and shock us in equal measure, gleefullyreminding us of what might lurk beneath the surface of the ordinary.

Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and died in 1990.

Jeremy Treglown is a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and the author of RoaldDahl: A Biography.

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From the Introduction by Jeremy Treglown:

“Whenever Roald Dahl comes into a conversation, somebody will mention—with laughter and akind of horrified awe—the story in which the brain and single lidless eye of a domineering, tobacco-hating husband are experimentally preserved with the help of an early life-support invention.

“Visiting him in the lab, his widow-wife lights a cigarette and blows smoke into his furious eye. ‘Ijust can’t wait to get him home,’ she says.

“Over the forty-five years of his career, Dahl’s fictions changed in tone and subject as well as audi-ence, but in the points of view of both characters this one is particularly revealing. The writer’sstare is unblinking and most of his tales are irritants, provocations. Fantastic as Grimm’s, heartlessas Saki’s, they stick in the mind long after subtler work has faded: incredible, unforgettable andvengefully funny.”

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B E L O V E DIntroduction by A. S. Byatt

The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison—“A masterwork . . . Wonderful . . . I can’t imagine American literature without it.”—John Leonard,

Los Angeles Times

Set in post–Civil War Ohio, Beloved is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who lost a husband and buried a child; whohas borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe now lives in a small house on the edgeof town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved.

Sethe works at “beating back the past,” but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in hermemory; in Denver’s fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes BabySuggs; in the arrival of Paul D, a fellow former slave; and, most powerfully, in Beloved, whohas now come from the “place over there” to claim retribution. Sethe’s struggle to keepBeloved from gaining possession of her present—and to throw off the long-dark legacy ofher past—is at the center of this spellbinding novel. But it also moves beyond its particulars,combining imagination and the vision of legend with the unassailable truths of history. Infact, almost two decades later, it remains a preeminent novel of our time, speaking withtimeless clarity and power to our experience as a nation with a past of both abominable andennobling circumstance.

Toni Morrison lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. Shereceived the Nobel Prize in 1993.

A. S. Byatt is the author of Possession, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman.

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From the Introduction by A. S. Byatt:

“Beloved is an American masterpiece, and one which, moreover, in a curious way reassess all themajor novels of the time in which it is set.”

Toni Morrison on the creation of the character Sethe:

“I sat on the porch, rocking in a swing, looking at giant stones piled up to take the river’s occasionalfist. Above the stones is a path through the lawn, but interrupted by an ironwood gazebo situatedunder a cluster of trees and in deep shade.

“She walked out of the water, climbed the rocks, and leaned against the gazebo. Nice hat.

“So she was there from the beginning, and except for me, everybody (the characters) knew it—a sentence that later became ‘The women in the house knew it.’ ”

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The Everyman’s Library 100 Essentials brings together a selection of 100 ofthe best-selling titles from the most distinctive collectible library of theworld’s great works. To celebrate the centenary year in the fall of 2006, retailbooksellers are invited to participate in a special promotion that features theEveryman’s Library 100 Essentials, all of which feature full-color jackets, manynewly designed.

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