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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books new books for literature course use & adoption fall 2012 • • • 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 fall 2012 PENGUIN CLASSICS On Living and Dying Well The Death of King Arthur: Marcus Tullius Cicero • Newly translated with The Immortal Legend an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Habinek Thomas Malory • Retold by Peter Ackroyd Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish • 978-0-14-045556-4 • $16.00 • Dec 2102 • Cover design by Stuart Kolakovic Tragedy; Hamlet; Antonio’s Revenge; The • Philosophical writings on “the good life” by • 978-0-14-310695-1 • $17.00 • Nov 2012 Tragedy of Hoffman; The Revenger’s the great Roman orator in a vital new • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • “Elegant, Tragedy translation. economical, and mordantly witty.”—The Boston Various (William Shakespeare,Thomas Globe • “Ackroyd preserves, and even Middleton, John Marston, Thomas Kyd, and Something to Remember Me By: accelerates, the headlong pace of these tales, Henry Chettle) • Edited with an Introduction Three Tales where action is everything.”—The New York & Notes by Emma Smith • 978-0-14-119227-7 Saul Bellow • Introduction by Nicole Krauss Times • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • A new authoritative • 978-0-14-242218-2 • $16.00 • Nov 2012 edition of five classic revenge plays. • Trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and The Portable Malcolm X Reader “greatest writer of American prose of the Edited by Manning Marable and Garrett Felber The Discovery of America by the Turks twentieth century” (James Wood, The New • 978-0-14-310694-4 • $22.00 • Jan 2013 Jorge Amado • Translated by Gregory Rabassa Republic) • “Bellow’s body of work is more • A new look at Malcolm X’s life and times • Foreword by José Saramago capacious of imagination and language than from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, • 978-0-14-310698-2 • $14.00 • Sep 2012 anyone else’s.”—Salman Rushdie Manning Marable. • Published for the first time in English for the centennial of Amado’s birth • “Amado’s Heart of Darkness On Being Different: irresistable human palette, like Brazil itself Joseph Conrad • Introduction by Adam What It Means to Be a Homosexual contains every color, race and ethnicity, from Hochschild • Enriched Features by Timothy S. Merle Miller • With a New Foreword by Dan ultra-rich plantation owners to the wretches Hayes • Cover design by Mike Mignola Savage • Afterword by Charles Kaiser who labor in the fields....There’s more packed • 978-0-14-310658-6 • $13.00 • Sep 2012 • 978-0-14-310696-8 • $13.00 • Oct 2012 • The into this slender book than many a novel five • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition groundbreaking work on being homosexual in times its length, delivered with zest and spice America • “Forty years later, the story Miller and unashamed love of physical pleasure.” Collected Poetry: John Donne tells remains important and necessary to read, —Nick DiMartino John Donne • Edited by Christopher Ricks not only for both gay and straight readers to • Introduction and Notes by Ilona Bell understand ‘the way it used to be,’ but because The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray • 978-0-14-119157-7 • $16.00 • Feb 2013 the issues Miller raised are still being discussed Jorge Armado • Newly translated by Gregory • A new collection of Donne’s verse, from the and argued about.”—Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Rabassa • Introduction by Rivka Galchen witty conceit of “The Flea” to the intense Morning Edition • 978-0-14-310636-4 • $14.00 • Sep 2012 spirituality of his Divine Poems. • Widely considered the greatest work by the Tomorrow Is Now foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth Tottel’s Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets Eleanor Roosevelt • With a New Introduction century. of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, by Allida Black • With a New Foreword by Bill Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others Clinton • 978-0-14-310699-9 • $15.00 • Nov Edited with an Introduction and Notes by 2012 • Available again in time for election Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul season, Eleanor Roosevelt’s most important • 978-0-14-119204-8 • $20.00 • Dec 2012 book—a battle cry for civil rights. • First time as a Pengiun Classic • A seminal collection of poetry from the Tudor period. PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Purple Cloud The Tale of the Heike An African Quilt M. P. Shiel • With a New Introduction and Translated by Royall Tyler • 978-0-670-02513-8 Edited and with an Introduction by Barbara H. Notes by John Sutherland • 978-0-14-119642-8 • $50.00 • Oct 2012 • A foundation stone of Solomon and W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • A landmark work that Japanese culture and a major masterpiece of • 978-0-451-53203-9 • $7.95 • Dec 2012 heralded the genre of apocalyptic fiction world literature • Includes illustrations, maps, • This new title celebrates the incredibly rich • “A remarkable piece of work... head and character guides, and genealogies and diverse literary tradition of Africa with shoulders above the average tale of fantastic stories spanning the continent from Nigeria to adventure.”—The New York Times Book Review South Africa by such authors as Chinua • “Delivered with a skill and artistry falling Achebe, Ama Ata Aido, Nadine Gordimer, little short of actual majesty.”—H. P. Lovecraft SIGNET CLASSICS Doris Lessing, Charles Mungoshi, Es’kia Mphahlele, and Grac Ogot. Includes short Portable Steinbeck biographical notes on each contributor. John Steinbeck • Edited by Pascal Covici, Jr. The Bible’s Greatest Stories • Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw Translated and with an Introduction by Paul Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • 978-0-14-310697-5 • $22.00 • Oct 2012 Roche • New Afterword by Bruce Chilton Robert Louis Stevenson • 978-0-451-53225-1 • Includes the complete novels Of Mice and • 978-0-451-53192-6 • $7.99 • Aug 2012 • A • $3.95 • Sept 2012 • Introductory essays by Men and The Red Pony, with self-contained comprehensive collection of the greatest Vladimir Nabokov • New Afterword by excerpts from several longer novels (Tortilla biblical stories, conveyed in a modern English National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon Flat, The Grapes of Wrath, and East of Eden) translation • More than a hundred years later, Stevenson’s and the text of his Nobel Prize acceptance enduring classic remains the irresistibly Little Men speech. terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares. Louisa May Alcott • 978-0-451-53223-7 • $5.95 The Prophecies • Oct 2012 • Includes an Afterword by J.T. The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Nostradmus • Newly translated with Notes by Barbarese, poet and distinguished Professor of Leo Tolstoy • Translated by Aylmer Maude and Richard Sieburth • Introduction by Richard English at Rutgers, as well as a New J. D. Duff • With a New Introduction by Regina Sieburth and Stephane Gerson Introduction. Maler • Afterword by Hugh McLean • 978-0-14-310675-3 • $28.00 • Aug 2012 • 978-0-451-53217-6 • $6.95 • Aug 2012 • Also Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer • Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text includes Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Joseph Conrad • 978-0-451-53103-2 • $4.95 • The first major literary presentation of Sonata, and Master and Man. • Oct 2012 • Includes an Introduction by Nostradamus’s Prophecies • “Is Nostradamus a National Book Award-winning author Joyce poet? The form in which he wrote—dark The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Carol Oates and an Afterword by acclaimed astrological visions of world events—is not one Mark Twain • 978-0-451-53220-6 • Oct 2012 writer Vince Passaro • In this pair of literary of poetry’s frequent modes, though he • With a new Introduction and an Afterword voyages into the self, Conrad has written two of anticipates the resounding malarkey of Yeats. by Howard Mittelmark, author of How Not to the most disturbing and noteworthy pieces of But it takes a poet to create such haunting, Write a Novel • This collection unites Mark twentieth century fiction. resonant, and mysterious quatrains.”—Richard Twain’s most accomplished short works, including The Mysterious Stranger and The Wilbur, former U.S. poet laureate and winner On Shattered Ground: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book A Civil War Mosaic, 1861-1865 Award • “Everybody knows about Edited by Eileen and Roger Panetta Nostradamus, but few have read him. Richard The Best of Oscar Wilde • 978-0-451-53219-0 • $7.95 • Nov 2012 • New Sieburth’s glittering translation rescues one of Oscar Wilde • 978-0-451-53222-0 • $5.95 • Nov title for Signet Classics—an anthology of the world’s most arcane texts from the realm of 2012 • With an Introduction by Sylvia Barnet, primary documents tracing the evolution of the hearsay, and renders its strange poetry palpable general editor of the Signet Classics Shake- Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 and moving.”—John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize– speare, and a new Afterword by Marylu Hill, election of Lincoln to the surrender and winning poet Director of the Center for Liberal Education at assassination with which it ended. It includes Villanova University • Includes Wilde’s five Travels with Charley in Search of America newspaper accounts, broadsheets, poetry, major plays: Salomé, An Ideal Husband, A John Steinbeck • Introduction by Jay Parini songs, photography, maps, and folk tales. Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and The Importance of Being Earnest • 978-0-14-018741-0 • $21.00 • Oct 2012 A Just and Lasting Peace: A Doumentary • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • Interviews from the peak of his career, bril- History of Reconstruction • Commemorates the 50th anniversary of liant examples of his literary criticism, and an Edited by John David Smith Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize • An intimate look at appendix that restores valuable lines from the • 978-0-451-53226-8 • $4.95 • Dec 2012 • New one of America’s most beloved writers in the original text of his most famous play.