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ADVANCE PUBLICATION THE GUERMANTES WAY NEWSLETTER Volume Thirteen • Number Two MARCEL PROUST For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development Translated by Mark Treharne Christopher Prendergast, general editor The third volume in Viking’s acclaimed new of In Search of Lost Books Due: Time unveils the dazzling milieu of May fashionable Parisian life in the late June nineteenth century. Literature and Poetry July AViking hardcover August June 640 pp. 2004 0-670-03317-0 $29.95

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OROONOKO BORGES: A LIFE Aphra Behn Edwin Williamson Edited with an Introduction The first biography in any language and Notes by Janet Todd to encompass the entire span of the In this early antislavery novel, Prince Argentine master’s life and work, Oroonoko’s passion for Imoinda leads bringing to the fore the little known to the lovers’ banishment from Africa human side of the writer. into slavery in Surinam. 8 pp. b/w photos. APenguin Classics paperback original AViking hardcover June 144 pp. August 384 pp. 0-14-043988-9 $9.00 0-670-88579-7 $29.95

TROILUS AND CRISEYDE Geoffrey Chaucer THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK Edited with an Introduction and Jack London Notes by Barry Windeatt Edited with an Introduction During the siege of Troy, a son of and Notes by R. D. Madison King Priam and a beautiful widow The author’s account of his 1907 share a love fraught with joy and voyage among the Pacific islands grief. Chaucer’s elegant retelling of aboard a 45-foot ketch—from daily the tale stands as his “most ambitious life on the boat to stories of native single achievement, his masterpiece.” encounters and marauder assaults. —Barry Windeatt. APenguin Classics paperback original A Penguin classics paperback original May 224 pp. May 640 pp. 0-14-243773-5 $12.00 0-14-042421-0 $16.00 THE ALEPH AND OTHER STORIES THE LETTERS OF Jorge Luis Borges ABELARD AND HELOISE Translated with an Introduction Translated by Betty Radice and Notes by Andrew Hurley Edited with an Introduction and “The most important thing to happen Notes by M. T. Clanchy to imaginative writing in the Spanish The tragic love affair between the language in modern times” (Maria greatest logician of the twelfth century Vargas Llosa) appears in Penguin and his gifted pupil comes alive again Classics for the first time. This selection in this revision of the landmark presents some of Borges’s most fully translation of their letters. realized characters. APenguin Classics paperback original APenguin Classics paperback original May 384 pp. August 304 pp. 0-14-044899-3 $14.00 0-14-243788-3 $14.00 AROUND THE WORLD THE UPANIS.ADS IN EIGHTY DAYS A UNIVERSAL HISTORY Translated and Edited with an Jules Verne OF INIQUITY Introduction by Valerie J. Roebuck Translated with Notes by Michael Glencross Jorge Luis Borges Amagisterial new translation of the Introduction by Brian Aldiss Translated with an Introduction thirteen “Principal Upanisads,” a series A new translation of the popular and Notes by Andrew Hurley of philosophical discourses composed adventure story in which the reserved “He has lifted fiction away from the flat in the eighth century bce that explore Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his earth where most of our stories still take the central doctrines of Hinduism. companions that he can travel around place.”—John Updike. “Hurley’s efforts APenguin Classics paperback original the entire globe in eighty days. at retranslating Borges are not anything May 480 pp. APenguin Classics paperback original but heroic. His versions are clear, 0-14-044749-0 $13.00 May 288 pp. elegant, crystalline.”—Ilan Stavans. 0-14-044906-X $10.00 APenguin Classics paperback original August 112 pp. 0-14-243789-1 $12.00

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