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Abigail's "Everyman's Library" Library
Hello! Welcome to my Online Library!
My name is Abigail. I am 12 years old and love to read. Time flies as my mom always says because I was nine when I started collecting and started this site!
But enough about getting old, ha! I'll jump right into it, and without further ado, here is the story of my very own library I am creating and building and tracking with this fun website:
After hearing my mom talk one day about how I love to read poetry, a friend of hers – who loves to read as well – mailed me a little book of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. But no, this wasn’t just any little book, but a book by his favorite publisher called Everyman’s Library. This yellow gem, I quickly learned was what is called an Everyman’s Library “Pocket Poet!”
And just like that, with that one adorable little Pocket Poet, it wasn’t even hardly ten minutes after opening the present that I learned that there are actually 127 of these wonderful, poetic treasures!
And 62 Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics!
And 35 Everyman’s Library Pocket Classics: short-story collections!
And the rest, as they say, is history: Let’s collect and read all of these wonderful poets and their poems said my Mom and I! And why not the Children’s Classics as well? And why not the great, literary short stories even still?
By day’s end, a hobby was born!!!!!
So again, thank you for visiting my little library of literary and poetic treasures - and be sure to have a look below from time to time to track my progress! Why not come along with me for the ride? As Robert Frost invites his readers in his famous poem The Pasture:
“I sha'n't be gone long. - You come too."
Happy Reading!
Abigail
Learn More!
Here is the link to the official Everyman's Library website where you can learn even more about each of my three Everyman's Collections by clicking on the applicable, individual links in their horizontal navigation bar at the top. Enjoy and happy reading!
The 127 Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
About the Pocket Poets
These little pocket-sized treasures are filled with poems from famous poets the world over! And in addition to Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Rumi, et al., there are also scores of editions that are themed-based: poems about trees, yep! Poems about nature, poems about art and singing and love and dancing and fishing and praying and sculpture…it’s all there, poems galore!
NOTE: The lists below are in Alphabetical Order by Poet & then by Theme
Abigail's Haves ~ All of them!!!!
- Akhmatova
- Auden
- Baudelaire
- Blake
- Bronte
- Browning
- Burns
- Byron
- Cather
- Cavafy
- Cohen
- Coleridge
- Dickinson
- Dickinson: Letters
- Donne
- Eliot
- Emerson
- Frost
- Hardy
- Herbert
- Hopkins
- Horace
- Hughes
- Joyce
- Keats
- Kipling
- Marquis: The Best of Archy and Mehitabel
- Marvell
- Merrill
- Millay
- Milton
- Eugenio Montale
- Mozart: Letters
- Plath
- Poe
- Pope
- Pushkin: Eugene Onegin
- Rilke
- Rimbaud
- Robinson
- Rossetti
- Rumi
- Rumi: The Unseen Poems
- Shakespeare
- Shelley
- Sondeim
- Stevens
- Tennyson
- Whitman
- Wordsworth
- Yeats
- Animal Poems
- Arabic Poems
- Art and Artists Poems
- Beat Poets
- Blues Poems
- Books and Libraries: Poems
- Border Lines: Poems of Migration
- Buzz Words
- Christmas Poems
- Chinese Erotic Poems
- Comic Poems
- Conversation Pieces
- Doggerel
- Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
- English Romantic Poets
- Erotic Poems
- Fairy Poems
- Fatherhood Poems
- French Poetry
- Friendship Poems
- Garden Poems
- Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
- Haiku Poems
- Hip Hops: Poems about Beer
- Indian Love Poems
- Irish Poems
- Jazz Poems
- Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem
- Little Poems
- Lullabies and Poems for Children
- Love Letters
- Love Poems
- Love Songs and Sonnets
- Marriage Poems
- Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters
- Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman
- Motherhood: Poems about Mothers
- Music’s Spell: Poems about Music and Musicians
- No Place Like Home: Poems
- On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds
- Persian Poems
- Poems about Horses
- Poems about Trees
- Poems Bewitched and Haunted
- Poems Dead and Undead
- Poems of Gratitude
- Poems of Greek Antiquity
- Poems of Healing
- Poems of London
- Poems of Mourning
- Poems of New York
- Poems of Paris
- Poems of Rome
- Poems of Sculpture
- Poems of Sleep and Dreams
- Poems of the American South
- Poems of the American West
- Poems of the Sea
- Prayers
- Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies
- River Poems
- Russian Poets
- Scottish Poems
- Solitude
- Sonnets
- Tang Poems
- The Art of Angling
- The Dance
- The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses
- The Four Seasons
- The Great Cat
- The Language of Flowers: Poems
- The Roman Poets
- Villanelles
- War Poems
- Zen Poems
The 62 Everyman's Library Children's Classics
About the Children's Classics
The Children’s Classics are colorful and elegant and treasures of world literature. From Daddy Long Legs and Cinderella to Pinocchio and The Jungle Book, from the Adventures of Robin Hood and Treasure Island to Sleeping Beauty and Aesop’s Fables, one is sure to discover scores and scores of extraordinary children classics for your endless reading pleasure!
Abigail's Haves!
- A Book of Nonsense - Edward Lear
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald
- Cinderella – C.S. Evans
- Don Quixote of the Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes
- Fables – Aesop
- Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
- Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm
- Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
- Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
- King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table - Roger Lancelyn Green
- Little Lord Fauntleroy – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
- Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories – Charles Perrault
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes – Walter Jerrold
- Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Russian Fairy Tales - Gillian Avery
- Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventures of Robin Hood – Roger Lancelyn Green
- The BFG - Roald Dahl
- The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
- The Princess and the Goblin – George MacDonald
- The Adventures of Robin Hood – Roger Lancelyn Green
- The Sleeping Beauty
- The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen
- The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graham
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
Abigail's Have-Nots!
- Anne of Green Gables – L M Montgomer
- Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes – Kate Greenaway
- A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Wonderful-Book for Girls and Boys - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
- Cautionary Verses – Hilaire Belloc
- Daddy Long-Legs – Jean Webster
- English Fairy Tales – Joseph Jacobs
- Fables – Jean de La Fontaine
- Heidi – Johanna Spryi
- Jack the Giant Killer – Richard Doyle
- Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
- Ride-a-Cock-Horse and other Rhymes and Stories – Randolph Caldecott
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Allen Poe
- The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children
- The Everyman Book of Nonsense
- The Happy Prince and other Tales – Oscar Wilde
- The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
- The Light in the Forest – Conrad Richter
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin – Robert Browing
- The Poppy Seed Cakes – Margery Clark
- The Railway Children – Edith Nesbit
- The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Rudolf Erich Raspe
- The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum
- Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
The 35 Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
About the Pocket Classics
The Pocket Classics are 31 short story anthologies on a variety of subjects - ranching from famous cities around the world to stories about horses and cats and ghosts and love and golf and art and dogs and the kitchen and the sea! - all written by well-known authors that we have come to love and treasure!
Abigail's Haves!
- Christmas Stories
- Fishing Stories
- Golf Stories
- Horse Stories
- Love Stories
- New York Stories
- Stories of Fatherhood
- Stories of Motherhood
- Wedding Stories
Abigail's Have-Nots!
- Bedtime Stories
- Berlin Stories
- Cat Stories
- Detective Stories
- Dog Stories
- Erotic Stories
- Florence Stories
- Garden Stories
- Ghost Stories
- London Stories
- Paris Stories
- Prague Stories
- Rome Stories
- Russian Stories
- Saki: Selected Stories
- Shaken & Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
- Stories from the Kitchen
- Stories of Art and Artist
- Stories of Southern Italy
- Stories of the Sea
- Stories of Tees, Woods, and Forests
- The Best Medicine: Stories of Healing
- The Maple Stories: John Updike
- The Olinger Stories: John Updike
- Venice Stories