Everyman's Library

Despite the hardship and uncertainty of 2020, Everymans Library has gone from strength to strength. March saw the publication of the Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore, one of Americas most revered and beloved writers, in our Adult Classics list, followed by Independent People, the epic realist novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness. In... autumn we published The Babur Nama, the magnificent memoirs of warrior-poet Babur, the first of the Mughal emperors of India, introduced brilliantly by William Dalrymple. Stephen Sondheims Lyrics and Montales Poems joined our Pocket Poets in spring, followed by Poems of Greek Antiquity and Border Lines: Poems of Migration the first anthology of its kind in which poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the experience of migration. Prague Stories, our latest Pocket Classic, weaves a remarkable selection of fiction and non-fiction into a literary portrait of a fascinating city. 2021 promises an especially exciting and eclectic line-up in our Pocket Classic and Pocket Poet series, including The Best Medicine: Stories of Healing, Tree Stories, Poems of Healing and Poems of Books and Libraries, while authors such as Dostoevsky and Maupassant will be among our new Adult Classics. A lost inheritance, a rags-to-riches journey from vagabondage in the mountains of central Asia to an imperial throne in India, warrior-poet Baburs life was one of adventure and endurance. Descended from both Genghis Khan and Timur, Babur came to the throne of a small principality at the age of eleven; ten years of warfare later, he would lose it forever to Uzbek invaders. As he fled into exile, a lucky break led to the capture of Kabul, from which he carved out a new state for himself in Afghanistan. Two decades later, he was ready for the greatest gamble of all no less than an invasion of Hindustan. He tells his own story with startling immediacy and a winning frankness: it was the crowning achievement of a rich tradition of Islamic autobiography. There is history and politics here ...Read More