The Garden of Romance

by Ernest Rhys

The Story of the Lame Young Man, From the Arabian Nights
The Story of Cymon and Iphigenia, From the Decameron
The Story of Balin and Balan, From the Morte D'arthur
The Story of Marcella, From Don Quixote
The Story of le Fevre, From Tristram Shandy
The Tapestried Chamber, By Sir W. Scott
Rip Van Winkle By W. Irving
My Kinsman, Major Molineux, By N. Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher, By E. A. Poe
The "old Bachelor's" Nightcap, By H. C. Anderson (tr. By Grace Rhys)

238 pages, Hardcover

First published October 14, 2010

About the author

Ernest Percival Rhys 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 ambitious Everyman project, aiming to publish 1,000 titles; the idea was to put out ten at a time. The target was eventually reached, ten years after Rhys died.