Why I love Everyman's Library Classics Collection - BookCravings 

This is a classic I must read! And Everyman's is always a great deal... To me is the perfect example of a simple and beautiful book design.

Good choice!

She won't get it on time for her birthday sadly but I'm sure it's well worth the extra weeks wait!

Same here! Stunning books 😍

Great! Thanks!

I agree... But somehow the dust jackets grew on me =)

Yeah, I love the scholarly material with Oxford World’s Classics and Penguin Classics, so they’re my first picks for classics (along with Norton Critical Editions). After those three, Everyman is my fourth pick. It’s the first hardcover one, though, and if there was really a book I wanted a nice hardcover of, I’d probably go with Everyman’s (or maybe Canterbury Classics/B&N Classics).

I'm glad I could help =)

Hi! I heard that only editions printed in the 90s were glued and a few printed nowadays. I have some volumes with less than 300 pages and fortunately they are sewn. I'm not sure how EL is managing this...

To be honest I keep them in the dust jacket and I only remember they are color coded when I read them lol. This collection is really fine. But it's impossible to complete it, because they have hundreds of books...

Thks. The quality is great and they are really inexpensive.

Cool! I heard good things about The Stories of Ray Bradbury! Do you plan to read it soon?

BookCravings Sorry about the late reply. Yep, I finished it. By and large and excellent collection of short stories and very representative of Bradbury's work as a whole. I highly recommend the EL copy as well! If you have a look on Goodreads you will find quite a large selection of reviews of the book including a number which have complete reviews of each story. Well worth the purchase price, especially if you enjoy the short story medium. Just an FYI, when buying you might want to check on Book Depository. I have noticed that the UK editions of the Everyman's Library collection are usually quite a bit cheaper than the US editions of the same book, sometimes as much as $10-$15 dollars (Canadian). I believe that the UK version of the Bradbury collection was about $25 CAD whereas the US edition was almost $40 CAD. Regards Ray

I've seen some glued copies at a book shop! 😱

I do the same! I always remove the jackets :)

I really love them. They are great books to collect.

BookCravings I just bought four secondhand Everyman's Library! I am so excited to expand my collection. Thanks to you and Pontus Presents!

Books Galore And More that’s great!!!!

Yeah! It's the best bookish deal out there. Great quality and great price. You can't go wrong with this collection, right? =) Which titles do you already have?

BookCravings The 3 books I had were Collected Stories by Rudyard Kipling and the other 2 are by R K Narayan. And I had ordered 3 more that just reached me, which are- The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe and The pocket poem edition of Joyce

Wow! Props... High level literature... I haven't read any of these titles, but I've heard amazing things about them.

BookCravings R K Narayan and Rudyard Kipling are part of my childhood, so had to start the collection with their books. And I read a lot of classics, so that's why the other picks

I've been considering the Kipling; could you tell me your opinion of the choices included in the volume? Is 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and some of the ghost stories there?

They are! LOL

Ebaaaa!!!!! Nossa, esse é realmente muito antigo!! Kkkk Você vai ver nos mais recentes que o canal me ajudou bastante a melhorar o inglês hehehehe

The dust jackets protect them from dust, sun etc. I always keep them.

Hi! Folio Society is better but very expensive. I love Everyman's Library because is more affordable and the quality is great. I also really enjoy the idea of having a collection of books of the same size and design. Another collection I really like is Library of America, which is an American non-profit organization. The books are a bit more expensive than Everyman's Library but the quality is similar. BTW there is a big sale going on at the Folio Society website. It is the best way to purchase their books. They are expensive, but gorgeous and made to last through generations. Thank you for watching =)

I greatly prefer Everyman's to Folio Society. FS are overpriced, and seem to be obsessed with adding contemporary illustrations where they are not required. Form over substance. Everymans are the perfect combination of style, quality and value.

As far as I know they released some glued bindings but stoped. Nowadays they are all sewn.

@@BookCravings oh no

Sorry! I meant nowadays they are all sewn!! Lol

Someone in an above comment mentioned that EL book’s smaller then 308 pages are glued - I don’t know if there’s a time window for that also. I DO have a 1991 Wuthering Heights that has distinctly bolder/blurrier font than all my later ELs, so there are certainly SOME changes across the years. I couldn’t rate these as BETTER than Library of America editions, but they are on par, and usually cheaper. Huge fan. And GREAT videos here, BTW - thanks!!!

As far as I know these books are all printed in Germany. I’m not aware of a US version, but they definitely have different editions.

hector roberto contreras miranda I have only one copy that has a scratch on the black stamping

Na Amazon BR ou US. Links na descrição!

MORINA BAKSHI Everyman’s, for sure. I wouldn’t recommend Penguin Clothbound. They pretty, but low quality.

@@BookCravings thank you so much. I had placed an order for Wuthering heights penguin classics clothbound but after watching your video immediately cancelled it. You are a saviour 🙏

@@sinlesscondemned lucky you.. I still hold high grudges for bad paper quality of penguin..after buying few Everyman's books I know that these are not only for collection and reading but to pass down to next generation or to give loved ones to read

@@akashhingu7617 I have placed my first order for Everyman's library and just hope not to be disappointed. Being a literature student I so want to have a good collection of my favourite classics.

@@sinlesscondemned sometimes you gotta take in your leap of faith..if not yours then others..

Noadia Cartaxo yes, hardcover, clothbound, acid free paper.

Anika Sultana Anika for sure

From reading to holding to looking at those books on shelves is just better in every way than penguin..people behind everyman's are truly generous

After the pandemic they became more expensive here too...

Not at all

RexExLiberi It would really be a nice touch...

Unabridged

Unabridged

Thank you 😊

Really? Would people fansify books? Well, as far as I know all of them have ribbon markers. Do they look alike? Are they all printed using the same kind of paper?

@@BookCravings yeah, it happens often with paperbacks but this is the first time I've seen a fake hardback. It could also be that the ribbon maker simply got torn off but regardless, I returned it. Ordered David Copperfield instead.

Spicer C have you considered Macmillan Collectors Library? I have a video on them

@@BookCravings Not a fan of pocket books

These are not pricey for what you get. For the same price you would only get a Penguin trade paperback. Everyman's books are properly printed and bound in Germany.

@@CDNChaoZ When all the texts are available online for free, yeah they are. Just the reality of our age.

I respectfully disagree. Merely because the text is available for free, does not mean that the production of a cloth-bound, hardcover book, with sewn bindings, and a scholarly introduction *should* be available new for less than $20 (roughly the equivalent of 2 hours work in a minimum-wage job in the US). I suppose it could be, but I don't know what kind of labor conditions would enable a publisher to produce this quality and still turn a profit (profits being the only reason we have quality books in the first place). Also, these editions are generally available for much cheaper than $20 on the second-hand market. Anyway, happy hunting for quality books at affordable prices!

I love it! The quality is great, the size is perfect!