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. 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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. 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