- Easton Press
Easton Press, a division of MBI Inc. based in
Norwalk, Connecticut , is apublisher specializing in high-quality leather-bound books. In addition to canonicalclassics ,poetry andart books, they publish a large library ofscience fiction and popular literature as well.Some of Easton Press's products are arranged in series to which a customer can subscribe, receiving a new book every month. For example, "The Library of Great Poetry" (25 volumes), "The Complete Novels of
Charles Dickens " (16 volumes) andC. S. Lewis 's "The Chronicles of Narnia " (seven volumes). However, it is possible to order many titles alone.Book traits
Almost all Easton Press books have the following traits:
*bound in leather with raised hubs on the spine
*distinctive gilt stamped cover designs
*threadsewn pages
*gilded page edges
*permanent satin ribbon page-marker
*endsheets of moiré fabric
*22kt gold-stamped spine accentsHowever, there is some variance. For instance, the Easton Press library of "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" does not have endsheets of moiré fabric, but otherwise it has all the aforementioned traits.
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The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
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* "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn " byMark Twain
* "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes " byConan Doyle
* "The Aeneid " byVirgil
* "Aesop's Fables " byAesop
* "Alice in Wonderland" byLewis Carroll
* "The Analects of Confucius " byConfucius
* "Animal Farm " byGeorge Orwell
* "Anna Karenina " byLeo Tolstoy
* "The Autobiography ofBenjamin Franklin "
* "Beowulf " by Anonymous
* "Billy Budd " byHerman Melville
* "Brave New World " byAldous Huxley
* "The Brothers Karamazov " byFyodor Dostoevsky
* "Robert Browning - Collected Poems " byRobert Browning
* "Candide " byVoltaire
* "The Canterbury Tales " byGeoffrey Chaucer
* "The Cherry Orchard "/"The Three Sisters " byAnton Chekhov
* "The Confessions of St. Augustine " by Saint Augustine of Hippo
* "The Count of Monte Cristo " byAlexandre Dumas, père
* "Crime and Punishment " byFyodor Dostoevsky
* "Cyrano de Bergerac" byEdmond Rostand
* "David Copperfield" byCharles Dickens
* "The Decameron " byGiovanni Boccaccio
* "Emily Dickinson - Collected Poems " byEmily Dickinson
* "The Divine Comedy " byDante Alighieri
* "Don Quixote " byMiguel de Cervantes
* "Dracula " byBram Stoker
* "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde " byRobert Louis Stevenson
* "Essays" byRalph Waldo Emerson
* "A Farewell to Arms " byErnest Hemingway
* "Fathers and Sons " byIvan Turgenev
* "Faust" byJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
* "Federalist Papers " byAlexander Hamilton ,James Madison ,John Jay
* "Frankenstein " byMary Shelley
* "Robert Frost - Collected Poems " byRobert Frost
* "Great Expectations " byCharles Dickens
* "Grimm's Fairy Tales " by Jacob andWilhelm Grimm , theBrothers Grimm
* "Gulliver's Travels " byJonathan Swift
* "Hamlet " byWilliam Shakespeare
* "Heart of Darkness " byJoseph Conrad
* "History of Early Rome" byLivy
* "The Hunchback of Notre Dame " byVictor Hugo
* "Iliad " byHomer
* "Ivanhoe " byWalter Scott
* "Jane Eyre " byCharlotte Brontë
* "The Jungle Book andThe Second Jungle Book " byRudyard Kipling
* "John Keats - Collected Poems " byJohn Keats
* "Lady Chatterley's Lover " byD. H. Lawrence
* "The Last of the Mohicans " byJames Fenimore Cooper
* "Leaves of Grass " byWalt Whitman
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* "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories " byWashington Irving
* "Les Misérables " byVictor Hugo
* "Little Women " byLouisa May Alcott
* "Lord Jim " byJoseph Conrad
* "Madame Bovary " byGustave Flaubert
* "A Midsummer Night's Dream " byWilliam Shakespeare
* "Moby-Dick or, The Whale" byHerman Melville
* "The Necklace and Other Tales " byGuy de Maupassant
* "Odyssey " byHomer
* "Oedipus the King " bySophocles
* "Of Mice and Men " byJohn Steinbeck
* "On the Origin of Species" byCharles Darwin
* "Paradise Lost " byJohn Milton
* "The Picture of Dorian Gray " byOscar Wilde
* "The Pilgrim's Progress " byJohn Bunyan
* "Politics" byAristotle
* "The Portrait of a Lady " byHenry James
* "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man " byJames Joyce
* "Pride and Prejudice " byJane Austen
* "The Prince " byNiccolò Machiavelli
* "Pygmalion"/"Candida" byGeorge Bernard Shaw
* "The Red and the Black " byStendhal
* "The Red Badge of Courage " byStephen Crane
* "The Republic " byPlato
* "Rights of Man " byThomas Paine
* "Robinson Crusoe " byDaniel Defoe
* "Romeo and Juliet " byWilliam Shakespeare
* "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam " byOmar Khayyam
* "The Scarlet Letter " byNathaniel Hawthorne
* "The Sea Wolf " byJack London
* "She Stoops to Conquer " byOliver Goldsmith
* "Silas Marner " byGeorge Eliot
* "The Sound and the Fury " byWilliam Faulkner
* "A Tale of Two Cities " byCharles Dickens
* "Tales from the Arabian Nights" by Richard Burton
* "Tales of Mystery and Imagination " byEdgar Allan Poe
* "The Talisman" byWalter Scott
* "Tess of the d'Urbervilles " byThomas Hardy
* "The Three Musketeers " byAlexandre Dumas, père
* "The Time Machine " byH. G. Wells
* "Tom Jones" byHenry Fielding
* "Treasure Island " byRobert Louis Stevenson
* "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea " byJules Verne
* "Uncle Tom's Cabin " byHarriet Beecher Stowe
* "Vanity Fair " byWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
* "Walden " byHenry David Thoreau
* "War and Peace " byLeo Tolstoy
* "The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler
* "Wuthering Heights " byEmily Brontë
* "William Butler Yeats - Collected Poems " byW. B. Yeats Library of the Presidents
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*"The Border Captain" by Marquis James
*"Portrait of a President" by Marquis JamesBenjamin Harrison :
*"Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior" by Harry J. SieversCalvin Coolidge :
* "A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge" by William Allen WhiteDwight D. Eisenhower :
* "The Eisenhower Diaries" by Robert H. FerrellFranklin D. Roosevelt
* "Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox" by James MacGregor Burns
* "Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom" by James MacGregor BurnsFranklin Pierce :
* "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills" by Roy Franklin NicholsGeorge Washington :
* "The Washington Papers" edited by Saul K. Padover
* "Washington" by Douglas Southall FreemanGerald Ford :
* "A Time to Heal"Harry S. Truman :
* "Harry S. Truman" by Margaret Truman
* "Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman" edited by Robert H. FerrellJames Buchanan :
* "President James Buchanan" by Philip Shriver KleinJames Madison :
* "The Complete Madison: His Basic Writing" edited by Saul K. Padover
* "The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison" by Irving BrantJames Monroe :
* "James Monroe" by W. P. CressonJames K. Polk :
* "Jacksonian, Volume 1"Jimmy Carter :
* "Always a Reckoning"
* "Everything To Gain"
* "Turning Point"
* "Blood Of Abraham"
* "Outdoor Journal"
* "Why Not The Best?"
* "A Government As Good As Its People"
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* "The Works of John Adams, Volume 2"John F. Kennedy :
* "Just Friends and Brave Enemies"
* "A Nation of Immigrants"
* "Profiles in Courage"
* "The Enemy Within"
* "Why England Slept"John Quincy Adams :
* "Volume I: And the Foundation of American Foreign Policy" by Samuel Flagg Bemis
* "Volume II: And the Union" by Samuel Flagg BemisJohn Tyler :
* "and Tyler too", A Biography of John and Julia Gardiner Tyler by Robert Seager IIMartin Van Buren :
* "Martin Van Buren" by John NivenRichard Nixon :
* "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Volume 1"
* "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Volume 2"Theodore Roosevelt :Thomas Jefferson :
* "Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation" by Merrill D. Peterson
* "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson" edited by Saul K. PadoverUlysses S. Grant :
* "Grant", A Biography by William S. McFeelyWilliam Howard Taft :
* "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" by Henry F. PringleZachary Taylor :
* "Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House" by Holman HamiltonOther:
* "Speeches of the American Presidents, Volume 2"
* "The First Ladies Fact Book"* "T.R.: The Last Romantic"
* "Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation"
* "President Kennedy"
* "All the Best, George Bush"
* "A Time to Heal"
* "An American Life"
* "Keeping Faith"
* "Washington"
* "James Monroe"
* "Abraham Lincoln"Horror Classics
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* "At the Mountains of Madness " byH. P. Lovecraft
* "The Birds and Other Stories" byDaphne du Maurier
* "Dracula " byBram Stoker
* "Frankenstein " byMary Shelley
* "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary " byM. R. James
* "The Haunting of Hill House " byShirley Jackson
* "In a Glass Darkly " bySheridan Le Fanu
* "The Island of Doctor Moreau " byH. G. Wells
* "The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre" byW. W. Jacobs
* "The Phantom of the Opera " byGaston Leroux
* "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde " byRobert Louis Stevenson
* "Tales of Mystery and Imagination " byEdgar Allan Poe
* "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians " byAmbrose Bierce Masterpieces of Science Fiction
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* "" byArthur C. Clarke
* "A Canticle for Leibowitz " byWalter M. Miller, Jr.
* "A Case of Conscience " byJames Blish
* "A Clockwork Orange " byAnthony Burgess
* "A Princess of Mars " and "At the Earth's Core" byEdgar Rice Burroughs
* "Animal Farm " byGeorge Orwell
* "Babel-17 " bySamuel R. Delany
* "The Black Cloud " byFred Hoyle
* "Brute Orbits " byGeorge Zebrowski
* "Childhood's End " byArthur C. Clarke
* "City" byClifford D. Simak
* "Dandelion Wine " byRay Bradbury
* "The Day of the Triffids " byJohn Wyndham
* "The Dead Zone" byStephen King
* "The Demolished Man " byAlfred Bester
* "The Diamond Age " byNeal Stephenson
* "The Dispossessed " byUrsula K. Le Guin
* "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? " byPhilip K. Dick
* "Doomsday Book" byConnie Willis
* "Dragonflight " byAnne McCaffrey
* "Dune" byFrank Herbert
* "Dying Inside " byRobert Silverberg
* "The Einstein Intersection " bySamuel R. Delany
* "Ender's Game " byOrson Scott Card
* "Fahrenheit 451 " byRay Bradbury
* "Falling Free" byLois McMaster Bujold
* "Flowers for Algernon " byDaniel Keyes
* "Forever Peace " byJoe Haldeman
* "The Forever War " byJoe Haldeman
* "The Foundation Trilogy" byIsaac Asimov
* "From the Earth to the Moon " byJules Verne
* "Gateway" byFrederik Pohl
* "The Gods Themselves " byIsaac Asimov
* "Green Mars" byKim Stanley Robinson
* "The Healer's War " byElizabeth Ann Scarborough
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* "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy " byDouglas Adams
* "The Humanoids " byJack Williamson
* "The Invisible Man " byH. G. Wells
* "Islands in the Net " byBruce Sterling
* "The Left Hand of Darkness " byUrsula K. Le Guin
* "Lest Darkness Fall " byL. Sprague de Camp
* "Lord of Light " byRoger Zelazny
* "The Man in the High Castle " byPhilip K. Dick
* "The Martian Chronicles " byRay Bradbury
* "The Moon and the Sun " byVonda McIntyre
* "More Than Human " byTheodore Sturgeon
* "The Mote in God's Eye " byLarry Niven &Jerry Pournelle
* "Moving Mars " byGreg Bear
* "Neuromancer " byWilliam Gibson
* "Nineteen Eighty-Four " byGeorge Orwell
* "Odd John " byOlaf Stapledon
* "Rendezvous with Rama " byArthur C. Clarke
* "Ringworld " byLarry Niven
* "She" byHenry Rider Haggard
* "The Sirens of Titan " byKurt Vonnegut
* "Slan " byA. E. van Vogt
* "The Snow Queen " byJoan D. Vinge
* "Solaris" byStanislaw Lem
* "Speaker for the Dead " byOrson Scott Card
* "Stand on Zanzibar " by John Brunner
* "Starship Troopers " byRobert A. Heinlein
* "Stranger in a Strange Land " byRobert A. Heinlein
* "Tau Zero " byPoul Anderson
* "The Terminal Experiment " byRobert J. Sawyer
* "This Immortal" byRoger Zelazny
* "The Time Machine " byH. G. Wells
* "Timescape " byGregory Benford
* "To Your Scattered Bodies Go " byPhilip José Farmer
* "The War of the Worlds " byH. G. Wells
* "Way Station" byClifford D. Simak cience Classics
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* "
The Beak of the Finch " byJonathan Weiner
* "The Birth of New Physics " byI. Bernard Cohen
* "A Brief History of Time " byStephen Hawking
* "Cosmos" byCarl Sagan
* "Dialogues Two Sciences" byGalileo Galilei
* "The Double Helix " byJames D. Watson
* "Elements of Chemistry " byAntoine Lavoisier
* "Epitome of Copernican Astronomy " byJohannes Kepler
* "Fermat's Enigma " bySimon Singh
* "Lives of a Cell " byLewis Thomas
* "Meaning of Relativity " byAlbert Einstein
* "On the Origin of Species" byCharles Darwin
* "Principia" byIsaac Newton
* "Revolutionibus" byNicolaus Copernicus
* "Six Easy Pieces" byRichard Feynman
* "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions " byThomas Samuel Kuhn Books That Changed the World
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* "The Affluent Society " byJohn Kenneth Galbraith
* "The Art of War " bySun Tzu
* "Basic Writings of"Thomas Aquinas
* "Beyond Good and Evil " byFriedrich Nietzsche
* "Common Sense" byThomas Paine
* "Das Kapital " byKarl Marx
* "Democracy in America " byAlexis de Tocqueville
* "Revolutionibus" byNicolaus Copernicus
* "The Diary of a Young Girl " byAnne Frank
* "Discourse on Method and Related Writings" byRené Descartes
* "An Essay on the Principle of Population " byThomas Malthus
* "Euclid's Elements " byEuclid
* "Federalist Papers " byAlexander Hamilton ,James Madison ,John Jay
* "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money " by John Maynard Keynes
* "The Interpretation of Dreams " bySigmund Freud
* "The Jewish State" byTheodor Herzl
* "The Journal of Christopher Columbus " byChristopher Columbus
* "Magna Carta
* "The Meaning of Relativity " byAlbert Einstein
* "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave " byFrederick Douglass
* "New Testament "
* "The 95 Theses " byMartin Luther
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* "Non-Violent Resistance " byMahatma Gandhi
* "On Liberty " byJohn Stuart Mill
* "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" byHenry David Thoreau
* "The Origin of Species " byCharles Darwin
* "Psychology of the Unconscious " byCarl Jung
* "The Prince " byNiccolò Machiavelli
* "Principia" byIsaac Newton
* "The Principles of Scientific Management " byFrederick Winslow Taylor
* "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung " byMao Zedong
* "The Republic" byPlato
* "Silent Spring " byRachel Carson
* "The Social Contract" byJean-Jacques Rousseau
* "State and Revolution " byVladimir Lenin
* "Tao Te Ching " byLaozi
* "The Theory of the Leisure Class " byThorstein Veblen
* "Torah "
* "The Travels of Marco Polo " byMarco Polo
* "Two Treatises of Government " byJohn Locke
* "Uncle Tom's Cabin " byHarriet Beecher Stowe
* "Utopia " byThomas More
* "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman " byMary Wollstonecraft
* "Walden " byHenry David Thoreau
* "The Wealth of Nations " byAdam Smith Great Books of the 20th Century
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* "The Age of Innocence " byEdith Wharton
* "All Quiet on the Western Front " byErich Maria Remarque
* "All the King's Men " byRobert Penn Warren
* "The Ambassadors " byHenry James
* "Babbitt" bySinclair Lewis
* "The Bell Jar " bySylvia Plath
* "Beloved" byToni Morrison
* "Brave New World " byAldous Huxley
* "Brideshead Revisited " byEvelyn Waugh
* "The Call of the Wild " byJack London
* "Catch-22 " byJoseph Heller
* "A Clockwork Orange " byAnthony Burgess
* "The Color Purple " byAlice Walker
* "Darkness at Noon " byArthur Koestler
* "Death Comes for the Archbishop " byWilla Cather
* "Dr. Zhivago" byBoris Pasternak
* "Fahrenheit 451 " byRay Bradbury
* "Ficciones " byJorge Luis Borges
* "The Fountainhead " byAyn Rand
* "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
* "Gone with the Wind " byMargaret Mitchell
* "The Grapes of Wrath " byJohn Steinbeck
* "The Great Gatsby " byF. Scott Fitzgerald
* "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter " byCarson McCullers
* "In Cold Blood" byTruman Capote
* "The Invisible Man " byH. G. Wells
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* "Light in August " byWilliam Faulkner
* "Lolita " byVladimir Nabokov
* "The Magic Mountain " byThomas Mann
* "Native Son " by Richard Wright
* "Night" byElie Wiesel
* "Nineteen Eighty-Four " byGeorge Orwell
* "Of Human Bondage " byW. Somerset Maugham
* "On the Road " byJack Kerouac
* "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich " byAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" byKen Kesey
* "One Hundred Years of Solitude " byGabriel García Márquez
* "A Passage to India " byE. M. Forster
* "Portnoy's Complaint " byPhilip Roth
* "The Power and the Glory " byGraham Greene
* "Rabbit, Run " byJohn Updike
* "Slaughterhouse-Five " byKurt Vonnegut
* "The Stranger" byAlbert Camus
* "The Sun Also Rises " byErnest Hemingway
* "Swann's Way" byMarcel Proust
* "To Kill a Mockingbird " byHarper Lee
* "To the Lighthouse " byVirginia Woolf
* "The Trial " byFranz Kafka
* "Ulysses" byJames Joyce
* "Women in Love " byD. H. Lawrence Military History: The Masterpiece Library
Includes:
*"The Histories"
*"The Art of War"
*"The Rommel Papers"
*"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
*"Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant"
*"On War"
*"The Gallic Wars"
*"Crusade in Europe"
*"The Military Maxims of Napoleon"ee also
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Franklin Library
*Folio Society External links
* [http://www.eastonpress.com/ Easton Press]
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