The Classics are the basis for Everyman's Library. When considered part from the titles that are now classified,
in the US, as "Contemporary Classics", the series through the end of 2022 includes 235 titles, a few of which are
multi-volume sets, there are only four that can not be found in either the US or the UK publisher's listings.
- The two volumes of the Arabian Nights, translated and edited by Husain Haddawy, Nos. 87 and 142.
These have presumably been replaced by No. 361, edited by Wen-chin Ouyang, that uses a variety of
different translations. W. W. Norton published editions of the Haddawy transation in 2008.
- Laclos. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. No. 76.
- Pushkin. The Captain's Daughter And Other Stories. No. 83. This is replaced by Pushkin's Collected
Stories, No. 251.
There are are handful of titles that were published - as far as I can tell - in only the US or the UK. Sometimes
in older volumes that contain a list of series bound in the rear that will be such a notation - "US only" or "UK only"
- but sometimes it is concluded based on seaches of sites such as WorldCat, the British Library, and various
bookselling sites. So the following listing may contain errors.
- Published in the UK only
- Evelyn. The Diary.
- Fielding. Joseph Andrews; Shamela.
- Langland. Piers Plowman; etc.
- Proust. In Search of Lost Time.
- The Book of Common Prayer.
- Trollope. Phineas Finn.
- Wordsworth. Selected Poems.
- Published in the US only
- Du Bois. The Souls of Black Folk.
Why Evelyn or Wordsworth or the Trollope ( on among many others that were published in the US)
should not have appeared in the US is a mystery. Random House already published Proust in it's
Modern Library series; while there is plenty of other overlap between Modern Library and Everyman's
Library, they may have felt that the Proust was too expensive to duplicate.
No titles were added to the series in 2022; 2013 is the last time as many as four new titles were added in a year.
