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July 17, 1859 in London, The United Kingdom

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May 25, 1946

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Children's Books

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Ernest Percival Rhys (July 17, 1859 – May 25, 1946) was an English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays. He was born in London, and brought up in Carmarthen and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

After working in the coal industry, he was employed doing editorial work on the Camelot Series of 65 reprints and translations from 1886, for five years, while he turned to writing as a profession. He was a founder member in 1890 of the Rhymer's Club in London, and a contributor to The Book of the Rhymers' Club (1893).

In 1906, he persuaded J. M. Dent, the publisher, for whom he was working on The Lyric Poets series, to start out on the ambitio...more

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	The Haunters and the Haunted by Ernest Rhys (Editor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contribution by), Arthur Machen (Contribution by) 325 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Fairy Gold: A Book of Classic English Fairy Tales by Ernest Rhys, Herbert Cole (Illustrator) 357 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Welsh Ballads: And Other Poems (1898) 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Old Country 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1917	My rating:
	English Fairy Tales 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1921 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Literary And Historical Atlas Of Europe 300 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1910	My rating:
	The Garden of Romance; Romantic Tales of All Time 300 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	The Golden Treasury of Longer Poems 200 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hypatia - Or New Foes with an Old Face 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Rabindranath Tagore - A Biographical Study 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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