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Contents Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one about the longmighty censorship strand.”— fightThe over New James York Joyce’sTimes. HISTORY & MEMOIR 3 See Fiction & Literature, page 6 ANTHOLOGIES & MYTHOLOGY 4 FICTION & LITERATURE 4 IRISH AMERICA IN HISTORY 11 & LITERATURE Sebastian Barry COLLEGE FACULTY 12 THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN “One of the best writers in the English language.... EXAMINATION & DESK COPY POLICY 13 INFORMATION SERVICE (CFIS) prose...are powerful canvases of the human spirit.” —[Barry’s]The Washington soul-wrenching Post. narratives and incantatory Click on the 13-digit ISBN for more See Fiction & Literature, page 4 information on any title.

To order examination copies of any of the titles listed in this catalog, visit: uala onnor www.penguin.com/examcopyorder N O’C MISS EMILY “A triumph of a novel.”—Robert Olen Butler. “T For personal service, adoption Dickinson crosses class, national, and religious lines to reach assistance, and complimentary out to her Irish maid Ada with compassion, empathy,his fictionalized and hu- examination copies, please sign manity....Eloquent prose.”—Dr. Paraic Finnerty, University of up for our College Faculty Infor- , author of Emily Dickinson’s Shakespeare. mation Service at: See Fiction & Literature, page 7 www.penguin.com/facinfo

James R. Barrett THE IRISH WAY Becoming American in the Multiethnic City Penguin History of American Life Series “An excellent, bottom-up survey of the Irish experience over the past two centuries....A superior ethnic study that will have value for both scholars and general readers.”—Booklist. See History & Memoir, page 3

W. B. Yeats PENGUIN WHEN YOU ARE OLD PUBLISHING GROUP Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales Academic Services Edited with an Introduction by Rob Doggett 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 Includes such celebrated poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” www.penguin.com/academic imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales and critical writings. and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s See Fiction & Literature, page 10 HISTORY & MEMOIR

LIFE OF ST. COLUMBA THE PORTABLE EDMUND BURKE and AdomnánTranslated with of Ionaan Introduction by EdmundEdited with Burke an Introduction by Isaac Kramnick ARTHURJon Lellenberg, CONAN Daniel DOYLE Stashower, Richard Sharpe Penguin Classics • 624 pp. • 978-0-14-026760-0 • $20.00 A Life Chris in Letters Foley A richly detailed portrait of religious life in An annotated collection of the Irish-Scottish the 6th century, illuminating the history of - the early church in and . Line THE ANCIENT respondence. drawings, maps, family trees. BarryDiscusses Cunliffe the disparity between the tradition- Penguinauthor’s • 720 previously pp. • 978-0-14-311433-8 unpublished • $18.00private cor Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-044462-9 • $18.00 al and contemporary information on the Celts and offers new insight into the true identity of Classics and Signet Classics. See www.penguin.com/ Also of interest: Conan Doyle’s stories in Penguin NEW! these ancient peoples. Illustrations. academic Penguin • 360 pp. • 978-0-14-025422-8 • $23.00 THE IRISH WAY: Becoming AmericanJames R. Barrett in the Multiethnic City IRELAND SINCE 1939 Penguin History of American Life Series MODERN IRELAND 1600–1972 TheHenry Persistence Patterson of Conflict “Richly detailed...a very absorbing work of R.“Anti-romantic F. Foster and realistic. An elegantly “Engrossing.”—Roy Foster, Financial Times. social history.”—The Wall Street Journal. “An written assessment of the current consensus “Original insight and a comprehensive synthe- excellent, bottom-up survey of the Irish expe- on problematic questions in Irish history.” sis of historical research.”—. rience over the past two centuries....A supe- Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-1-84488-104-8 • $24.00 rior ethnic study that will have value for both Penguin • 704 pp. • 978-0-14-013250-2 • $20.00 scholars and general readers.”—Booklist. —Shaun O’Connell. NEW! Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-312280-7 • $18.00 THE HISTORY AND PHILOMENA: A Mother, Her Son, TOPOGRAPHYGerald of OF IRELAND andMartin a Fifty-Year Sixsmith search THE BURNING OF Translated with an Introduction Foreword by Dame Judi Dench BRIDGETAngela Bourke CLEARY and Notes by John O’Meara “A searingly poignant account of forced adop- “A perceptive study.”—The New Yorker. “A Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-044423-0 • $15.00 tion and its consequences.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred). “Heartbreaking...a story that need- century Ireland that is also a scholarly analy- ed to be told.”—The Independent (UK). sisriveting of culture, account politics, of a horrific religion, murder and inmythol 19th-- MICK: The Real Michael Collins Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-312680-5 • $17.00 ogy.”—Kirkus Reviews. Peter“A triumph; Hart the narrative is detached, but Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-100202-6 • $16.00 sympathetic. Collins is seen in the round, with his weak points coolly dissected and THE GREAT HUNGER IrelandCecil Woodham-Smith 1845–1849 NEW WORLDS, LOST WORLDS the context of the place and the time.”—Tom TheSusan Rule Brigden of the Tudors, 1485–1603 Garvin,his undoubted Irish Book organizational Review. 16 pp. abilities b/w photos. put in Kee. Illustrations, map. Penguin History of Britain, Volume V Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-303854-2 • $20.00 Penguin“A masterpiece • 528 pp. • of 978-0-14-014515-1 the historian’s •art.”—Robert $18.00 “A splendid piece of scholarship....Covers not only but Ireland, Scotland, and Wales NEW! as well.”—Library Journal. “Triumphantly suc- THE PENGUIN HISTORICAL cessful.”—Ralph Houlbrooke, Univ. of Reading, ATLASJohn Haywood OF THE THE FUTURE OF THE CATHOLIC The Times Literary Supplement. Maps and il- Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-051328-8 • $22.00 CHURCHGarry Wills WITH POPE FRANCIS lustrations throughout. “A lively exercise in church history—history Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-200125-7 • $19.00 intended to orient us in the here and now.”— THE FLAG Chicago Tribune. “An informed look at the Robert Kee Catholic Church and the challenges [Pope A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY of —The Most Distressful Francis] faces.”—The Seattle Times. INTOEdmund THE Burke SUBLIME AND Country,All three The volumes Bold of Kee’s Men definitive, and Ourselves history Viking • 288 pp. • 978-0-525-42696-7 • $27.95 BEAUTIFUL and Other Alone. “Industry, insight, and massive re- Pre-Revolutionary Writings search.”—. Penguin • 896 pp. • 978-0-14-029165-0 • $22.00 EXAMINATION COPY ORDERS Edited with an Introduction $3.00 for books priced under $20.00 and Notes by David Womersley 50% off books priced at or above $20.00 Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-043625-9 • $18.00 www.penguin.com/examcopyorders

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THE TÁIN ANNIE DUNNE AnonymousTranslated with an Introduction Sebastian Barry by Ciaran Carson A “brilliant and altogether engaging new “Annie’s passionate observations andThe shifting New translation” (Los Angeles Times) of the Old Yorkmoods—rendered Times. in dense prose that’s close Irish epic, Táin Bó Cúailnge, the 8th-century Penguinto poetry—fuel • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-200287-2 this fine novel.”— • $15.00 tale of the legendary warrior Cú Chulainn. A FREE Reading Guide is available at www.penguin.com/guides THE AGE OF BEDE as a storyteller and a highly skilled poet, THE WHEREABOUTS D.Translated H. Farmer, by J. F. editor Webb and D. H. Farmer “Outstanding....[Carson’s] impressive gifts, OF ENEAS MCNULTY Includes The Voyage of St. Brendan, the fabulous urgency of the Iron Age.” Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots —Professorand wizard ofRobert language Welch, combine Univ. of toUlster. recreate of Wearmouth and Jarrow, and Eddius Bede’s the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-045530-4 • $17.00 “From the first sentences we know we are in Life of Wilfrid. Street Journal Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044727-9 • $15.00 NEW! singular force, grace, and beauty.”—The Times Stephanus’s (London). . “Reflects on Irish history with Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-028018-0 • $16.00 THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN A FREE Reading Guide is available at MODERN IRISH SHORT STORIES Sebastian“One of the bestBarry writers in the English lan- www.penguin.com/guides BenPreface Forkner, by Anthony editor Burgess CONTRIBUTORS: Moore, Somerville, Ross, and incantatory prose...are powerful canvases guage....[Barry’s] soul-wrenching narratives of the human spirit.”—The Washington Post. SCARLET FEATHER Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-312712-3 • $16.00 Maeve“The dialogue Binchy crackles with wit and authentic Kavanagh,Yeats, Synge, Boyle, Corkery, Beckett, O’Kelly, McLaverty, Stephens, Joyce, O’Flaherty, Bowen, O’Faolain, O’Connor, ON CANAAN’S SIDE Irish style.…It takes a huge amount of talent, “The greatest writer of prose in the English good story, and Maeve Binchy has it all.”—The McCabe,MacMahon, McGahern. Edna Biographical O’Brien, Lavin, sketches. Kiely, Clevelandinsight, and Plain compassion Dealer. to create a ‘simple’ PenguinPlunkett, • 576 Higgins, pp. • 978-0-14-024699-5 Trevor, Flann • $22.00 O’Brien, tolanguage...[This restore with language novel] fitsthat seamlesslywhich has been into Signet • 560 pp. • 978-0-451-20377-9 • $7.99 takenBarry’s away unique by andtime.”— expandingThe Daily vision, Beast seeking ‘Must Also of interest: Light a Penny Candle Quentins Nights of Rain and Stars EARLY IRISH MYTHS AND SAGAS 978-0-451-22264-0, single parenthood, , unexpected acts 978-0-451-20990-0, JeffreyTranslated Gantz, by the editor editor ofReads.’ compassion, “Richly detailed, death too often early...and cinematic....War, race rela- 978-0-451-21446-1 The fourteen myths and tales collected in this volume represent the foremost written repos- life.”—The Philadelphia Enquirer. THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS itory of Celtic oral tradition. Notes. Penguintions are • 272 all pp. threads • 978-0-14-312218-0 in the tapestry • $15.00 of Lilly’s AErskine Record Childers of Secret Service Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044397-4 • $16.00 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Foreword by Erskine C. Childers THE SECRET SCRIPTURE and best of spy stories” ( London), “[Barry writes] in language of surpassing beau- The Times, A CELTIC MISCELLANY anticipatedChilders’s gripping the work tale of of Graham espionage, Greene “the firstand ty....It is like a song, with all the pulse of the Irish KennethTranslated byHurlstone the editor Jackson, editor A selection of Celtic prose and poetry from all language.”—Dinitia Smith, The New York Times. Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-311569-4 • $16.00 periods up to the nineteenth century. Notes. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize great-grandson.John le Carré and retains its preeminent place Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-044247-2 • $17.00 Winner of the Costa Book Award Penguinin the genre. Classics With • 336 pp.a foreword • 978-0-14-310632-6 by the author’s • $16.00 A LONG LONG WAY MEETING THE OTHER CROWD “Nobody writes better about the trenches of Eddie Lenihan with Carolyn E. Green the First World War than Sebastian Barry.” The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland —Peter Sheridan. “A deeply moving story of The master Irish folklorist, “one of the few traditional storytellers—seanchaí in Gaelic— Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-303509-1 • $16.00 COLLEGE FACULTY still working in Ireland” (The New York Times), courageShortlisted and for fidelity.”—J. the Man Booker M. PrizeCoetzee. INFORMATION SERVICE (CFIS)

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NEW! PAULA SPENCER IN THE LAND OF TIME THE GUTS Roddy“Captivating....A Doyle superbly drawn heroine.”— andLord Other Dunsany Fantasy Tales returns. The Independent - Edited with an Introduction The Woman Who and Notes by S. T. Joshi completeJimmy Rabbitte with aof stalled career, bowel can- Walked into Doors (UK).] deals “A magnificentwith the vicissitudes achieve cer,“It’s andrare an to extramaritalread about a affair,man’s andmidlife burst crisis, out ofment....If mind, fantasy the first and novel delusion [ that allowed of fantasy, “who imagined colors, ceremonies laughing. Yet acclaimed Irish author Doyle [Paula] to remain in a violent relationship, andThe firstincredible annotated processions edition ofthat the never Irish masterpassed pulls it off....Too good to miss.”—The Library the sequel deals with the forensic process of before the eyes of Poe or of De Quincey” (W. B. Journal (starred review). “Quintessential recovery.”—Anne Devlin, (UK). Yeats). Doyle.”—The Boston Globe. 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Anglo-Irish Reviewant narrator. “A tour and de James force Joyce’s of literary Molly ventrilo Bloom.”- Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-043320-3 • $15.00 THE DEPORTEES quism.”—The Washington Post Book World. and Other Stories Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-025512-6 • $15.00 THE ABSENTEE Eight funny and poignant tales of immigrant Edited with an Introduction experience in contemporary Ireland. “[Doyle] “One of the great modern Irish novels.”—The and Notes by Heidi Thompson Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-043645-7 • $16.00 has the literary equivalent of perfect pitch.” Washington Post. “Doyle offers a breathtaking —The Christian Science Monitor. glimpse into the inner life of a boy forced to NEW! Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-311488-8 • $16.00 leave behind childish things.”—San Francisco THE DEAD REPUBLIC Chronicle. 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The Commitments, The Snapper, Penguin • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-312330-9 • $16.00 Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-311903-6 • $16.00 and The Van FAITHFUL PLACE A STAR CALLED HENRY haunting...with brash energy, cheerful irrev- “Revisits, evocatively and lyrically, themes “Stunning...a masterpiece, an extraordinarily erence,“Doyle’s and novels a street are idiom as hilarious that reads as they like po are- entertaining epic.”—The Washington Post. etry.”—San Francisco Chronicle. “Vividly portrays the wild passions of an Irish she’s used before: love, loss, memory, murder, Penguin • 640 pp. • 978-0-14-025262-0 • $20.00 remains brilliant, and her dialogue is sharp, Everyman...and the birth of the modern Irish oftenand life lacerating, in modern and Ireland. sometimes French’s mordantly writing nation.”—Time. THE SNAPPER funny.”—Booklist (starred review). 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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST THE RAGE OliverEdited with Goldsmith an Introduction ASJames A YOUNG Joyce MAN Gene“Masterly.”— KerriganThe New Yorker. “A boundlessly and Notes by Stephen Coote Introduction by Hugh Kenner readable portrait of an Ireland in which all the Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-043159-9 • $10.00 Afterword by Langdon Hammer old certainties have vanished.”—NPR. Signet Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-451-53015-8 • $4.95 Europa • 336 pp. • 978-1-60945-092-2 • $17.00 Nominated for an LA Times Book Prize Edited with an Introduction Named one of the Wall Street Journal’s LONG TIME, NO SEE and Notes by Seamus Deane 10 Best Mysteries of the Year Dermot“Compassionate Healy and elegiac...a celebration Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-243734-6 • $11.00 of the whole gift of existence....Everyday THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR chores and family obligations are elevated to Text, Criticism, and Notes “An absorbing, beautifully written, gritty the level of epiphany.”—The Times Literary Viking Critical Library tale of Irish detection and corruption, full of Supplement. “A grand read, funny and pro- Edited by Chester G. Anderson believable characters and bleak Dublin set- vocative....Tenderness and affection win out Penguin • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-015503-7 • $20.00 tings.”—The Times (London). Europa • 356 pp. • 978-1-933372-26-6 • $14.95 THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award grudges.”—Annie Proulx, The Guardian. Edited by Harry Levin Winner Penguindespite • gunfire, 448 pp. • 978-0-14-312343-9despite ancient jealousies • $16.00 and Includes Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a NEW! NEW! Young Man, Exiles, Collected Poems complete, and selections from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Penguin Classics • 768 pp. • 978-0-14-015030-8 • $20.00 THE WOMAN WHO DUBLINERS STOLEMarian MYKeyes LIFE JamesEdited with Joyce an Introduction and Notes NEW! Irish beautician Stella Sweeney falls ill, falls by Terence Brown in love, then falls into a glamorous new life Fore word by Colum McCann THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK - Centennial Deluxe Edition Kevin Birmingham morous writing style, and uplifting tone have “A handsome deluxe edition.”—The New York The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses “A brilliant study.”—The New Yorker. “[This] becomein New Yorkbeloved City. by “Keyes’s readers witty across women...hu the globe.” Times. —Chicago Tribune. Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-310745-3 • $17.00 Ulysses braids eight or nine Viking • 464 pp. • 978-0-525-42925-8 • $27.95 Introduction and Notes by Terence Brown goodnew stories book about into one the mighty long strand....The censorship fightbest Available July 2015 Extensive notes. Map. over James Joyce’s THE MYSTERY OF MERCY CLOSE Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-018647-5 • $11.00 - A FREE Reading Guide is available at suredstory that’syet bravura told...may performance.”— be that of the arrivalThe New of www.penguin.com/guides a significant young nonfiction writer....A mea York Times. on.”—“Keyes’sPublishers portrayal Weekly. of depression is nuanced Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-312754-3 • $18.00 Text and Criticism Plumeand authentic. • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-218079-2 Helen’s vibrant • $16.00 voice is spot- Viking Critical Library Edited and Updated by Robert Scholes THE BRIGHTEST STAR and A. Walton Litz SOMEONE LIKE YOU IN THE SKY Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-024774-9 • $20.00 CathyPlume • 480 Kelly pp. • 978-0-452-28338-1 • $15.00 “Features a cast of deftly drawn characters.... - Introduction by Edna O’Brien gether expertly, evoking a mellow, almost ret- Afterword by Malachy McCourt DARK TIMES IN THE CITY roKeyes quality weaves that renders these characters’ the novel completely stories to Gene Kerrigan addictive.”—The Irish Times. Penguin • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-311849-7 • $16.00 SignetBased Classics on the • 272 definitive pp. • 978-0-451-53041-7 text, which has • $4.95 all of Irish underworld and a population caught the author’s textual instructions. in“Kerrigan’s a closed spare,circle of incisive poverty prose and depicts violence.” an www.penguin.com/academic —Publisher’s Weekly (starred). A FREE Teacher’s Guide is available at Europa • 320 pp. • 978-1-60945-144-8 • $17.00 FINNEGANS WAKE Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award Introduction by John Bishop Finalist “A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.”—Anthony Burgess. www.penguinspeakersbureau.com Penguin Classics • 672 pp. • 978-0-14-118126-4 • $23.00 availability, visit the address above or email [email protected] all inquiries, including speakers’ fees and

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