Library of World Literature

The Library of World Literature (Russian: Библиотека всемирной литературы; Transliteration: Biblioteka vsemirnoi literaturi; ABBREVIATION БВЛ / BVL) is a 200-volume Soviet book series dedicated to world literature, published in the years 1967 to 1977 by the publishing house "Khudozhestvennaya literatura" in the USSR.

[1] It was the most ambitious, centralised, and best-funded effort to date to transform the workings of literary production, and consumption both in the Soviet Union and worldwide.

For example, Volume 192, published in 1975 in 303,000 copies, includes William Faulkner's "Light in August" (1932) and "The Mansion" (1960).

[4] More than 100 Soviet artists participated in the illustrating of The Library of World Literature, including Olgert Abelite, Savva Brodsky, Orest Vereisky, Boris Dekhterev, Leonid Zusman, Yevgeny Kibrick, Mikhail Mayofis, Boris Noskov, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Irakli Toidze, Aleksandr Deyneka, Vladimir Favorsky, Kukryniksy, Aleksandr Gerasimov, Georgiy Traugot and his sons Aleksandr and Valeriy, Dementiy Shmarinov, Dmitry Bisti.

[5] The Library of World Literature was awarded a gold medal in Leipzig Book Fair in 1971.