More than a century ago, a British bookbinder turned publisher named Joseph Dent established the Everyman’s Library. Its goal was grand, to put the world’s classics in the hands of every reader who ...

This year marks the centennial of Everyman's classics, and the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf recently relaunched the library. Editor Sonny Mehta and writers Joan Didion and Z.Z. Packer talk about ...

In 1906, London bookbinder-turned-publisher Joseph Dent founded Everyman’s Library, dedicated to printing “new and beautiful editions of the world’s classics at one shilling a volume.” The price has ...

The delivery of the final 52 Everyman Classics to secondary schools takes place today. It marks the culmination of a project that has seen more than 1.5 million books delivered to 4,500 state ...

When Sonny Mehta -- chairman and editor in chief of the Knopf Publishing Group -- was growing up in "postcolonial India," his formative experience of well-presented literature came through books from ...

THE biggest Millennium lottery project supporting reading and literature reached its conclusion yesterday when the final batches of 1.5 million copies of classic works were delivered to schools. All 4 ...