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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books new books for literature course use & adoption winter • spring 2013 • • • I’m Jim Dassise, West Coast College Field Sales Manager You can contact me with any questions or requests at [email protected] • • • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books for course use & adoption winter • spring 2013 PENGUIN CLASSICS Henderson the Rain King Collected Poetry Saul Bellow • Introduction by Adam Kirsch • John Donne • Edited by Christopher Ricks • 978-0-14-310548-0 • $16.00 • Jan 2013 • A Notes by Ilona Bell • 978-0-14-119157-7 • Death of a Hero twentieth-century literary masterpiece from $17.00 • Feb 2013 • A new collection of Donne’s Richard Aldington • Introduction by James H. the Nobel Prize winner. • “A kind of wildly verse, from the witty conceit of “The Flea” to Meredith • 978-0-14-310687-6 • $17.00 • Mar delirious dream made real by the force of the intense spirituality of his Divine Poems. 2013 • One of the great World War I antiwar Bellow’s rollicking prose and the offbeat inven- novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical. tiveness of his language.”—Chicago Tribune Demian • “An undervalued war novel treasure by a Hermann Hesse • Translated by Damion Searls pioneering 20th-century literary figure. The Collected Stories • Introduction by Ralph Freedman • Foreword quality of writing about the war should rank this Saul Bellow • Edited by Janis Bellow • Intro- by James Franco • 978-0-14-310678-4 • $15.00 novel among the classics about World War I duction by James Wood • 978-0-14-310725-5 • • Aug 2013 • A powerful new translation of the warfare and even for all time.”—James H. Meredith $20.00 • June 2013 • Stories from the Nobel Nobel Prize winner’s masterpiece of youthful Prize winner, including “What Kind of Day Did rebellion. • “The electrifying influence exercised The Divine Comedy: You Have?,” “Leaving the Yellow House,” and on a whole generation just after the First World Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso “By the St. Lawrence.” War by Demian... is unforgettable. With uncanny Dante Alighieri • Translated with Notes by Robin accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of Kirkpatrick • 978-0-14-310719-4 • $26.00 • A Prince of Swindlers the times and called forth grateful rapture from Mar 2013 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • Guy Boothby • Introduction by Gary Hoppen- a whole youthful generation who believed that Cover art by Eric Drooker • A stunning 3-in-1 stand • 978-0-14-310722-4 • $15.00 • June 2013 an interpreter of their innermost life had risen edition of one of the great works of Western litera- • One of literature’s first, greatest, and most from their own midst.”—Thomas Mann ture. • “The perfect balance of tightness and dastardly gentleman rogues finally joins the colloquialism... Likely to be the best modern Penguin Classics crime list. Come Along with Me: Classic Short version of Dante.”—Bernard O’Donoghue Stories and an Unfinished Novel Russian Magic Tales Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Laura Miller • Captains of the Sands from Pushkin to Platonov 978-0-14-310711-8 • $16.00 • Mar 2013 • A Jorge Amado • Translated by Gregory Rabassa Edited with an Introduction by Robert Chan- haunting and psychologically driven collection • Introduction by Colm Tóibín • dler • Translated by Robert Chandler and Eliza- that includes “The Lottery” and features sixteen 978-0-14-310635-7 • $16.00 • June 2013 • A beth Chandler with Sibelan Forrester, Anna short stories and three lectures Jackson delivered Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of Gunin, and Olga Meerson • Afterword by during her last years. • “Jackson was a bright, boys who live by their wits and daring in the Sibelan Forrester • 978-0-14-144223-5 • $18.00 crafty... very impressive maker of stories... slums of Bahia. • July 2013 • For fans of fairy tales and the Come Along With Me is a kind of memorial to literary supernatural: a unique collection of her... an engaging volume.”—Chicago Sun Times The Violent Land Russian short stories from the last 200 years. Jorge Amado • Translated by Samuel Putnam • Hangsaman Introduction by Alfred MacAdam • Pleasure Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Francine Prose • 978-0-14-310637-1 • $16.00 • June 2013 • An Gabriele D’Annunzio • Translated with a Fore- 978-0-14-310704-0 • $15.00 • July 2013 • Jack- exotic tale of greed, madness between two word and Notes by Lara Gochin Raffaelli • son’s second novel, loosely based on the real- powerful families over the cocoa-rich coast of Introduction by Alexander Stille • life disappearance of a Bennington College Bahia. • “A big brawling novel... Everything in 978-0-14-310674-6 • $17.00 • July 2013 • The sophomore in 1946. • “Alive, complex, and it is on an heroic scale...adventure, romance, first new English translation since the Victorian clear... The characters are true to themselves crime, and social injustice...passionate and era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality (and to life) with every breath they draw.”—The supremely moving.”—The New York Times and seduction. New York Times PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Road Through the Wall The Republic POETRY Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Ruth Franklin • Plato • Translated with an Introduction and 978-0-14-310705-7 • $16.00 • July 2013 • Notes by Christopher Rowe • Jackson’s first novel of suburban horror. 978-0-14-144243-3 • $13.00 • Jan 2013 • An The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi authoritative new translation of Plato’s founda- Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi • Edited and Trans- The Imitation of Christ tional work of Western philosophy. lated by Daniel Ladinsky with Nancy Owen Thomas à Kempis • Translated with Notes by Barton • Introduction by Daniel Ladinsky • Robert Jeffery • Introduction by Max von The Collected Poems 978-0-14-312161-9 • $16.00 • Available now • Habsburg • 978-0-14-119176-8 • $14.00 • May Marcel Proust • Edited with an Introduction Penguin • Rumi’s cherished and timeless 2013 • One of the best-loved books of Christi- and Notes by Harold Augenbraum • wisdom, uniquely interpreted and translated by anity after the Bible, now in a new translation. 978-0-14-310690-6 • $25.00 • Apr 2013 • renowned poet Daniel Ladinsky. • “Ladinsky is Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • A Dual- a master who will be remembered for finally The Jungle Books Language Edition with Parallel Text • The most bringing Hafiz alive in the West.”—Alexandra Rudyard Kipling • Edited with an Introduction complete volume of Proust’s poetry ever assem- Marks,The Christian Science Monitor and Notes by Kaori Nagai • Jan Montefiore, bled. Few of the poems collected here have ever Series Editor • 978-0-14-119665-7 • $11.00 • been published in book form or translated into David Shapiro: New and Selected Poems Aug 2013 • A new edition of Kipling’s best- English until now. David Shapiro • 978-1-4683-0336-0 • $17.95 • loved book. Jan 2013 • Overlook • The landmark collection Of the Social Contract by “the most intellectually sophisticated poet of The Portable Malcolm X Reader and Other Political Writings his generation.” (Leonard Lopate) • “David Edited by Manning Marable and Garrett Felber Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Translated by Quintin Shapiro’s poetry manifests a never-resting • 978-0-14-310694-4 • $22.00 • Feb 2013 • A Hoare • Notes by Christopher Bertram • mind.”—Harold Bloom new look at Malcolm X’s life and times 978-0-14-119175-1 • $11.00 • Jan 2013 • conceived by his Pulitzer Prize–winning biog- A lively new translation of Rousseau’s best- Countee Cullen: Collected Poems rapher and developed by his key researcher. known work, accompanied by additional polit- Edited by Major Jackson • ical writings. 978-1-59853-083-4 • $20.00 • May 2013 • The Pitching in a Pinch: Library of America • Some of Cullen’s works Baseball from the Inside Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man are widely known, but there are others that Christy Mathewson • Foreword by Chad Siegfried Sassoon • Introduction by Paul remain undiscovered. This volume restores to Harbach • Afterword by Red Smith • Fussell • 978-0-14-310715-6 • $16.00 • June print a body of work of singular intensity and 978-0-14-310724-8 • $15.00 • May 2013 • An 2013 • The first volume of Sassoon’s semi-auto- beauty. inside baseball memoir from the game’s first biographical George Sherston trilogy is an superstar. • “[Mathewson] gripped the imagi- account of his privileged childhood and his May Swenson: Collected Poems nation of a country that held a hundred million enlistment in the British Army. Edited by Langdon Hammer • people and held his grip with a firmer hold 978-1-59853-210-4 • $40.00 • Apr 2013 • The than any man of his day or time.”—Grantland Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Library of America • For her centennial, Rice, legendary sports writer and journalist Siegfried Sassoon • Introduction by Paul innovative and erotic poems of an American Fussell • 978-0-14-310716-3 • $15.00 • June original collected for the first time. Utopia 2013 • The second volume of Sassoon’s semi- Thomas More • Translated with an Introduc- autobiographical George Sherston trilogy. The Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin tion by Dominic Baker-Smith • Edited by J. D. McClatchy • 978-1-59853-207-4 978-0-14-144232-7 • $12.00 • Jan 2013 • A Sherston’s Progress • $75.00 • Apr 2013 • Library of America • A major new translation of More’s popular work Siegfried Sassoon • Introduction by Paul definitive, career-spanning two-volume edition of philosophical fiction that explores theories Fussell • 978-0-14-310717-0 • $15.00 • June of the poems of the former U.S. Poet Laureate. behind war, politics, and freedom. 2013 • The final volume of Sassoon’s semi-auto- biographical George Sherston trilogy. Gossamurmur Down Second Avenue Anne Waldman • 978-0-14-312308-8 • $20.00 Es’kia Mphahlele • Foreword by Ngugi wa Botchan • Apr 2013 • Penguin • A meditation on Thiong’o • 978-0-14-310679-1 • $16.00 • Aug Natsume Soseki •Translated with an Introduc- identity theft and a searing plea for the primacy 2013 • A seminal memoir of life in apartheid tion by J.