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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books new books for literature course use & adoption winter–summer 2014 I’m Stephanie Smith, East Coast College Field Sales Representative You can contact me with any questions or requests at [email protected] PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books for course use & adoption winter - summer 2014 PENGUIN CLASSICS The Bird’s Nest Sagittarius Rising Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Kevin Wilson • Cecil Lewis • Introduction by Samuel Hynes • 978-0-14-310703-3 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • 978-0-14-310734-7 • $16.00 • June 2014 • The Divine Comedy: Jackson’s third novel develops hallmarks of the Memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso horror master’s most unsettling work: tormented adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm Dante Alighieri • Translated with an Introduction heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a of The Little Prince • “Classic…the definitive and Notes by Robin Kirkpatrick • 978-0-14- disquieting vision inside the human mind. • account of aerial combat—full of passion and 119749-4 • $26.00 • March 2014 • The acclaimed “Jackson’s best novel…Brilliant, swift, at times poetry.”—The Independent translation of the most famous work of Italian immensely funny, and alternately frightening. literature, now in a one-volume edition. Jackson’s portrayal of a personality in On the Genealogy of Morals disintegration is masterful.”—Chicago Tribune Friedrich Nietzsche • Translated by Michael A. Barlaam and Josaphat: Scarpitti • Introduction and Notes by Robert C. A Christian Tale of the Buddha The Sundial Holub • 978-0-14-1195377 • $15.00 • Feb 2014 Gui de Cambrai • Translated by Peggy Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Victor LaValle • • First time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche’s McCracken • Introduction by Donald S. Lopez, 978-0-14-310706-4 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • When accessible exploration of key ideas in his Jr. • 978-0-14-3107019 • $16.00 • March 2014 • the Halloran clan gathers at the family home landmark Beyond Good and Evil—in a lucid New translation of the most popular Christian for a funeral, no one is surprised when the new translation. tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off story of the Buddha into the secret garden. But then she returns to The Prophecies report a vision of an apocalypse from which Nostradamus • Translated by Richard Sieburth The Confession of a Child of the Century only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be • Edited by Stephane Gerson • Introduction by Alfred de Musset • Translated with an spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in Richard Sieburth and Stephane Gerson • Notes Introduction and Notes by David Coward • growing madness, fear, and violence as they by Richard Sieburth • Appendix by Stephane 978-0-14-139185-4 • $17.00 • March 2014 • prepare for a terrible new world. Gerson • 978-0-14-310723-1 • $18.00 • Jan The classic French novel of infidelity and 2014 • First major literary presentation of The decadence, published in the first new English Landscape with Figures: Prophecies, newly translated and edited by translation in a hundred years. Selected Prose and Writings prizewinning scholars. • “Sieburth’s glittering Richard Jefferies • Introduction by Richard translation rescues one of the world’s most arcane Narrative of the Life of Frederick Mabey • 978-0-14-139289-9 • $17.00 • Feb 2014 texts from the realm of hearsay, and renders its Douglass, an American Slave • From the father of English nature writing: a strange poetry palpable and moving.”—John Frederick Douglass • Edited with a new superb selection of essays about rural England Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Introduction by Ira Dworkin • 978-0-14-310730- in the 1800s. 9 • $13.00 • Feb 2014 • An updated edition of a The Rise of Rome classic African American autobiography, with Dubliners Plutarch • Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, new supplementary materials. James Joyce • Foreword by Colum McCann • Christopher Pelling and Jeffrey Tatum • 978-0-14-310745-3 • $17.00 • June 2014 • For Introduction by Jeffrey Tatum the centennial of its original publication, a • 978-0-14-0449754 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Latest Graphic Deluxe Edition of one of the most installment in our fully revised edition of beloved books of the 20th century. Plutarch’s Lives * All Penguin Classics titles are in paperback (PB) PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Letters to a Young Poet POETRY U.S. FICTION Rainer Maria Rilke • Translated by Charlie Louth • Introduction by Lewis Hyde • 978-0-14-119232-1 • $14.00 • April 2014 • Roget’s Illusion The Secret History of Las Vegas Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an Linda Bierds • 978-0-399-16546-7 • $27.95 • Chris Abani • 978-0-14-312495-5 • $16.00 • Jan aspiring young poet. April 2014 • Putnam • Bierds asks why do we 2014 • Penguin • From the award winning persist, despite the perils of this world, in author of The Virgin of Flames comes a riveting The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies trying to untangle the illusions that ensnare us? novel about a series of killings in Las Vegas and Clark Ashton Smith • Edited with an • “Her poems, with their constantly surprising the conjoined twins accused of committing Introduction and Notes by S. T. Joshi • delicacy and their language rich with insight them. • “Chris Abani is a force of nature. In the 978-0-14-310738-5 • $16.00 • April 2014 • and a sensuous music, radiate real power and world of letters he is a luminous shattering “Incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, authority and animal presence.”—W. S. Merwin talent.”—Junot Díaz and still more fantastic creatures…Take one (U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010–2011) step across the threshold of his stories and you What the Family Needed plunge into colour, sound, taste, smell and Haiku Love Steven Amsterdam • 978-1-59463-235-8 • texture: into language.”—Ray Bradbury Edited and translated by Alan Cummings • $16.00 • April 2014 • Riverhead • A family’s 978-1-4683-0860-0 • $15.95 • Jan 2014 • superpowers bestow not instant salvation but The Little Demon Overlook • The majority of the poems in this the miracle of accepting who they are. • Fyodor Sologub • Translated by Ronald Wilks • collection come from the Tokugawa period and “Brilliant, unexpected, wide-ranging and Introduction by Pamela Davidson • 978-0-14- include works from the best-known Japanese deeply moving, the story of one family’s 139293-6 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • A blackly comic classical authors, female poets and a number of extraordinary—and sometimes otherworldly— Russian classic about a schoolteacher’s descent contemporary writers. Illustrated with images negotiation of the very real hazards of into sadism, arson, and murder. from the collection of Japanese paintings and life.”—Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the prints in the British Museum. Only Way I Want It The Time Regulation Institute Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar • Translated by Another Reason Queen Sugar Alexander Dawe and Maureen Freely • 978-0-14- Carl Dennis • 978-0-14-312522-8 • $18.00 • Natalie Baszile • 978-0-670-02613-5 • $27.95 • 310673-9 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin Black Tie April 2014 • A new collection from the winner Feb 2014 • Pamela Dorman Books • A Classics • A tragicomedy of modernization, in its of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize. mother-daughter story of reinvention—about first-ever English translation. • “An allegorical an African American woman who masterpiece.”—Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Selected Poems unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Nobel Prize in Literature. Vladislav Khodasevich • Translated by Peter Louisiana. • “A sweeping, beautifully wrought, Daniels • With an Introduction by Michael and uniquely American story….A lyrical and The Tale of the Heike Wachtel • 978-1-4683-0810-5 • $27.95 • Jan page-turning meditation on second chances, Translated by Royall Tyler • 978-0-14-310726-2 2014 • Overlook • Bilingual edition • First reinvention, family, and race”—Melanie Gideon, • $30.00 • April 2014 • Includes 55 illustrations English-language edition of the work of “the author of The Slippery Year and Wife 22 by Japanese master artist Teisai Hokuba • Fully greatest Russian poet or our time” (Vladimir annotated, with maps, character guides, and Nabokov). • “Khodasevich is one of the great Steal the North genealogies • From the acclaimed translator of undiscovered poets of the twentieth century. Heather Brittain Bergstrom The Tale of Genji His verse is inventive, sharp and sensuous, full • 978-0-670-78618-3 • $27.95 • April 2014 • of the pain of exile yet suffused with hope and Viking • An atmospheric debut novel about a belief in the redemptive power of poetry. The teenage California girl discovering her mother’s greatest compliment to Peter Daniels is that his past, the family she never knew she had, and a translations capture not only the semantic content, once-in-a-lifetime love in the land of her birth, but the rhythm and the soul of Khodasevich’s eastern Washington state. art.”—Martin Sixsmith, author of Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East While Beauty Slept Elizabeth Blackwell • 978-0-399-16623-5 • The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon $25.95 • March 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • Willie Perdomo • 978-0-14-312523-5 • $18.00 • The Brother Grimm meets The Thirteenth Tale April 2014 • Penguin • “There is no poet alive as the legend of Sleeping Beauty is turned on its who can match the lyrical intelligence, head in this Gothic retelling of the real story ferocious wit and searching humanity of behind the cherished childhood classic. • Perdomo…He’s the Puerto Rican diaspora’s “Blackwell’s writing is magical in this complex, unofficial poet laureate and what he knows dark, and sensual retelling of Sleeping Beauty. about being of color, being between languages, Imaginative, evocative, full of surprises, this is a being poor, being a man, being in trouble, captivating debut.”—M.