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Easton Press, a division of MBI, Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a publisher specializing in premium leather-bound books. In addition to canonical classics, religion, poetry and art books, they publish a selection of science fiction and popular literature.
The Easton Press uses a number of elements of older publishing and book-binding styles, including gilt edges, raised bands on the spine, and ribbon markers. It commissions illustrations for its editions, including from prominent illustrators like Arthur Szyk, David Gentleman and Chris Van Allsburg, who illustrated its editions of C.S. Lewis‘s Chronicles of Narnia.
In the early 1970s, Danbury Mint (a sister company to the Easton Press) acquired The Heritage Press & The Heritage Club (a division of the Limited Edition Club) which reprinted classic volumes previously published by the more exclusive Limited Editions Club. As a result of the sale, the Easton Press has the reprint publishing rights to those LEC titles. A great many of the Easton Press leather books, particularly the “100 Greatest Books Ever Written” series are reprints of the beautiful Limited Editions Club editions.
Over the years The Easton Press has published a number of book series including The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, Masterpieces of American Literature, The Library of American Presidents (also known as: The Library of the Presidents), The Library of American History, Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides, Library of Fly-Fishing Classics, and The Masterpieces of Science Fiction.
Year | Title | Author(s) |
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1981 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
1980 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
1979 | The Aeneid | Virgil |
1979 | Aesop's Fables | Aesop |
1977 | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
1976 | The Analects of Confucius | Confucius |
2003 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
1975 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
1976 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin |
1967 | Beowulf | Anonymous |
1980 | Billy Budd | Herman Melville |
1978 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
1979 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
1977 | Candide | Voltaire |
1978 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
1977 | The Cherry Orchard/Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov |
1979 | Collected Poems | Robert Browning |
1995 | Collected Poems | Emily Dickinson |
1975 | Collected Poems | Robert Frost |
1980 | Collected Poems | John Keats |
1976 | Collected Poems | William Butler Yeats |
1979 | The Confessions of St. Augustine | Saint Augustine of Hippo |
1941 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas, père |
1980 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
1981 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand |
1979 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
1980 | The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio |
1978 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
1976 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
1991 | Dracula | Bram Stoker |
1980 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
1979 | Essays | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
1983 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
1977 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev |
1980 | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
1979 | The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay |
1962 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
1979 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
1980 | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm |
1976 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
1967 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
1980 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
1978 | The History of Early Rome | Livy |
1983 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
1979 | The Iliad | Homer |
1977 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
1976 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë |
1980 | The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
1988 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence |
1979 | The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
1989 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
1967 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories | Washington Irving |
1966 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo |
1976 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
1977 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
1978 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
1967 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
1975 | Moby-Dick or, The Whale | Herman Melville |
1977 | The Necklace and Other Tales | Guy de Maupassant |
1978 | The Odyssey | Homer |
1980 | Oedipus the King | Sophocles |
1977 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
1976 | On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
1976 | Paradise Lost | John Milton |
1957 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
1979 | The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
1979 | Politics | Aristotle |
1978 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
1977 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
1977 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
1980 | The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
1974 | Pygmalion/Candida | George Bernard Shaw |
1980 | The Red and the Black | Stendhal |
1980 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
1980 | The Republic | Plato |
1979 | The Rights of Man | Thomas Paine |
1976 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
1968 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
1976 | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyam |
1975 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
1979 | The Sea Wolf | Jack London |
1978 | She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith |
1980 | Silas Marner | George Eliot |
1992 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
1981 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
1981 | Tales from the Arabian Nights | Richard Burton |
1975 | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe |
1976 | The Talisman | Walter Scott |
1984 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
1978 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas, père |
1964 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells |
1979 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
1977 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
1977 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
1979 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
1979 | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
1975 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
1981 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
1980 | The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler |
1980 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
At a later date a further 25 books were published this series, bringing the actual total to 125.
Year | Title | Author(s) |
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1978 | Tales of the Alhambra | Washington Irving |
1979 | The Birds and The Frogs | Aristophanes |
1980 | The Comedies | William Shakespeare |
1980 | The Confessions | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
1977 | The Descent of Man | Charles Darwin |
1977 | Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers Of Evil) | Charles Baudelaire |
1980 | The Histories | William Shakespeare |
1982 | The Holy Bible | Various authors |
1977 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
1978 | A Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe |
1980 | The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
1980 | Medea/Hippolytus/The Bacchae | Euripides |
2004 | Middlemarch | George Eliot |
1979 | Oresteia | Aeschylus |
1979 | Three Plays | Henrik Ibsen |
1980 | Two Plays | Moliere |
1979 | Two Plays | George Bernard Shaw |
1979 | Poems | John Donne |
1978 | The Return of the Native | Thomas Harding |
1971 | Short Stories | Charles Dickens |
1976 | Short Stories | Oscar Wilde |
1979 | The Symposium | Plato |
1980 | The Tragedies | William Shakespeare |
1980 | Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne |
1979 | Vanity Fair | William Thackeray |
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