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unusual facts about Everyman's Library


Edward Payson Dutton

In 1906 Dutton struck what proved to be a significant deal with the English publishing company of J. M. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints.


Chetham's Library

The manor house of the Lord of the Manor, in the centre of the medieval town of Manchester, stood on a sandstone bluff, at the confluence of the River Irwell and the River Irk.

Dodge Avenger

Another television spot likened the Avenger to the "superhero" vehicle for the everyman, depicting a driver piloting his Avenger through Gotham-like streets and alleys, speaking to the MyGig entertainment system in distinctly Batman-reminiscent tones, to arrive home, pull into a two-car garage and open the rear door to a sleeping child in the rear car-seat.

Dr Williams's Library

It has always had close ties with the Unitarians, and when a Doodlebug destroyed Essex Hall, the headquarters of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the Library offered a few spare rooms to displaced workers.

It had variable success; up to 49,000 births were registered there until after a few months of the General Register Office for England and Wales starting up in 1837, following the Births and Deaths Registration Act the previous year.

Élie Bouhéreau

Élie (or Elias) Bouhéreau (1643 – 19 March 1719) was a French Huguenot refugee in Ireland and the first librarian of Marsh's Library in Dublin.

Ernest Franklin Bozman

Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895–1968) is a British author and the editor of two editions of Everyman's Encyclopaedia.

Evelyn Waugh bibliography

Published in Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Short Stories, Ann Pasternak Slater (ed.), Everyman's Library (David Campbell Publishers Ltd), London 1998

Everyman's War

As the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer "Ghost" division move silently into position on the snow covered hills around Nennig, Germany, a battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend the small town, a key position in the Allied advance to win the war.

Much of the film takes place during January 1945 near Nennig, Germany in the Battle of the Bulge.

Francis Graham Lodge

Lodge exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1933, He was also an artist with Everyman(1929-1931), the Observer(1929-1934) and the Radio Times.

Gladiator-At-Law

It was created to satisfy a vision of housing for Everyman, similar to the Levittown ideal.

Green Arrow and Black Canary

After Black Canary murders 'Green Arrow' on their wedding night, it is discovered that it was actually Everyman posing as him.

Hawkes Children's Library

Hawkes Children's Library may refer to one of the libraries inspired by Albert King Hawkes of Atlanta, Georgia who desired children's libraries and theaters in Georgia's towns.

Horace Kephart

In addition, he wrote The Hunting Rifle section of Guns, Ammunition and Tackle (New York: Macmillan, 1904), a volume of Caspar Whitney's prestigious American Sportsman's Library.

Joseph Towers

He preached as a Unitarian minister without charge, and in 1792 succeeded Roger Flexman as librarian of Dr Williams's Library; resigning this post in 1804, he led an eccentric life, busy with literary schemes, and collecting books and prints.

Juergensen Marine

Juergensen began producing films in 1976, his filmography includes such series work as “An Everyman’s Guide to the Planets” hosted by Joseph Campanella, The Practical Guide to the Universe starring actor Tom Selleck, and Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal starring actor Dan Aykroyd

Marsh's Library

Marsh donated his own library, which included the former library of Bishop Edward Stillingfleet, of over 10,000 volumes, regarded as one of the finest in England, which he had bought for 2,500 pounds.

My Name Is Red

In recognition of its status in Pamuk's oeuvre, the novel was re-published in Erdağ Göknar's translation as part of the Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics series in 2010.

National Library of Russia

The cornerstone of the foreign-language department came from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the form of Załuski's Library (420,000 volumes), nationalized by the Russian government at the time of the partitions.

Nonconformist register

It had already resulted in an earlier system of limited registration for dissenters being established at Dr Williams's Library in London.

Parade's End

Yet it has had influential admirers, from Dorothy Parker and Carl Clinton Van Doren to Anthony Burgess and Malcolm Bradbury (who also included it in his 1992 Everyman edition).

Paul Woodside

Woodside was featured in A Few Seconds of Panic (2008), journalist Stefan Fatsis's everyman account of attending the 2006 Denver Broncos training camp as a 43-year-old placekicker.

Ra-Ra Zoo

Ra-Ra Zoo's last full show to date 'Cabinet of Curiosities' toured in 1993/4 and like their first show was in the London International Mime Festival (in 1994), the last show of that tour was at the Liverpool Everyman also in 1994.

Robert Aspland

On 18 December of the same year he was at William Hone's side in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, finding authorities and furnishing hints for his six hours' speech of defence; he had previously visited Hone in prison, providing him with books from Dr Williams's Library, so that the defence might be prepared.

Stereotypes of Jews in literature

Bloom is the quintessential Everyman, and takes on the venerable role of Odysseus in Joyce's saga.

The Very Best of Jackson Browne

#"Redneck Friend" – 4:01 (from the album For Everyman)

William Blachford

William Blachford (born 1730; died 1773) was the father of poet Mary Tighe; from 1766 to 1773 he was librarian of Marsh's Library, Dublin.

Yasmin Bannerman

She spent time acting there and later joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in Cheltenham before beginning a degree in modern European literature at the University of Reading.


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