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PENGUIN CLASSICS A Complete Annotated Listing www.penguinclassics.com PUBLISHER’S NOTE For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, providing readers with a library of the best works from around the world, throughout history, and across genres and disciplines. We focus on bringing together the best of the past and the future, using cutting-edge design and production as well as embracing the digital age to create unforgettable editions of treasured literature. Penguin Classics is timeless and trend-setting. Whether you love our signature black- spine series, our Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, or our eBooks, we bring the writer to the reader in every format available. With this catalog—which provides complete, annotated descriptions of all books currently in our Classics series, as well as those in the Pelican Shakespeare series—we celebrate our entire list and the illustrious history behind it and continue to uphold our established standards of excellence with exciting new releases. From acclaimed new translations of Herodotus and the I Ching to the existential horrors of contemporary master Thomas Ligotti, from a trove of rediscovered fairytales translated for the first time in The Turnip Princess to the ethically ambiguous military exploits of Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions, there are classics here to educate, provoke, entertain, and enlighten readers of all interests and inclinations. We hope this catalog will inspire you to pick up that book you’ve always been meaning to read, or one you may not have heard of before. To receive more information about Penguin Classics or to sign up for a newsletter, please visit our Classics Web site at www.penguinclassics.com. And we invite you to follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@PenguinClassics). CONTENTS PENGUIN CLASSICS 1 (ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR) SUBJECT CATEGORIES 377 NEW TITLES FOR 2016 409 READERS GUIDES 410 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 413 AUTHORS BY REGION 415 TITLE INDEX 439 Penguin Classics Readers Guides are available online at www.penguinclassics.com Tables of contents for Penguin Classics titles are available online at www.us.penguingroup.com/toc Teachers wishing to consider any of our Penguin Classics for course use should e-mail with full details to [email protected] * Indicates a new edition of a Penguin Classic that has undergone substantial revisions and/or has additional and enhanced apparatus EDWIN A. ABBOTT HENRY ADAMS 1838–1926, English 1838–1918, American Flatland Democracy A Romance of Many Dimensions An American Novel Introduction by Alan Lightman Edited with an Introduction and Abbott’s delightful mathematical fantasy Notes by Earl N. Harbert about life in a two-dimensional world An instant bestseller when first published brilliantly satirizes Victorian British society. in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential 144 pp. 978-0-14-043531-3 $12.00 American political novel. At its heart ePub 9781101212943 is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes to Washington, D.C., to understand the workings of power. Pursued by Silas PETER ABÉLARD Ratcliffe, the most influential member of 1079–c.1144, French the Senate, Madeleine soon sees enough of power and its corrupting influence to last HÉLOÏSE her a lifetime. c. 1098–1164, French 224 pp. 978-0-14-303980-8 $14.00 The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse ePub 9781440631016 Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Betty Radice Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Revised by M. T. Clanchy Introduction by Raymond Carney This collection of writings offers insight A philosophical and historical meditation into the minds of two prominent on the human condition, Adams’s Christian medieval figures—the French journey into the medieval consciousness scholastic philosopher Peter Abélard and synthesizes literature, art, politics, science, his beloved Héloïse, who became a learned and psychology. abbess—and their celebrated but tragic 448 pp. 978-0-14-039054-4 $18.00 love affair. ePub 9781101221754 384 pp. 978-0-14-044899-3 $16.00 JOHN ADAMS ANDY ADAMS 1735–1826, American 1859–1935, American The Portable John Adams The Log of a Cowboy Edited with an Introduction by Edited with an Introduction and John Patrick Diggins Notes by Richard W. Etulian Adams biographer John Patrick Straightforwardly told, rich in detail, and Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact original laced with appealing campfire humor, volume, including parts of his diary, Andy Adams’s realistic novel is a classic autobiography, correspondence and portrayal of the western cattle country. his most important political works: A 288 pp. 978-0-14-303968-6 $16.00 Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, ePub 9781440627026 “Thoughts on Government,” A Defence on the Constitutions of the United States of America, Novanglus, and Discourses on Davila. 576 pp. 978-0-14-243778-0 $20.00 ePub 9781440650963 PENGUIN CLASSICS 1 JOHN ADAMS The Oresteian Trilogy 1735–1826, American Translated with an Introduction by Philip Vellacott ABIGAIL ADAMS Justice, vengeance, and the forces of fate 1744–1818, AMERICAN provide the themes for Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. Vellacott’s The Letters of John and Abigail Adams verse translation is presented with a short Edited with an Introduction and introduction to Greek mythology and the Notes by Frank Shuffelton historical context of the trilogy. The marriage of John and Abigail Adams 208 pp. 978-0-14-044067-6 $13.00 was an inspiring connection of mind and spirit. Both an intimate portrait of a colonial family and a historical record of an emerging America, their letters provide an important record of American life before and during the Revolution. 512 pp. 978-0-14-243711-7 $18.00 ePub 9781440650857 ADOMNÁN OF IONA c. 628–704, Irish Life of St. Columba The Persians and Other Plays Translated with an Introduction by The Persians/Prometheus Bound/Seven Against Richard Sharpe Thebes/The Suppliants This biography, written one hundred Translated with an Introduction and Notes years after the death of St. Columba (597) by Alan H. Sommerstein and drawing on both oral and written Illuminating the tragic grandeur for which materials, presents a richly detailed Aeschylus has been celebrated, this fresh portrait of religious life in the sixth translation of The Persians and Other Plays century. shows how Aeschylus brought epic sweep 432 pp. 978-0-14-044462-9 $18.00 to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. AESCHYLUS 304 pp. 978-0-14-044999-0 $15.00 525–456 B.C., Greek Prometheus Bound and Other Plays The Oresteia Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Agamemnon,The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Against Thebes, The Persians Translated by Robert Fagles with an Translated with an Introduction Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by by Philip Vellacott Robert Fagles and W. B. Stanford This evocative translation features four The Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek of Aeschylus’s eminent plays: Prometheus drama that survives from antiquity— Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against takes on new depth and power in Fagles’s Thebes, and The Persians. This edition is acclaimed modern translation. accompanied by an introduction containing 336 pp. 978-0-14-044333-2 $14.00 individual discussions of the plays and their ePub 9781101042632 sources in history and mythology. Readers Guide Available 160 pp. 978-0-14-044112-3 $14.00 See The Portable Greek Reader. 2 PENGUIN CLASSICS AESCHYLUS a rawer, racier, very adult aesthetic, this 525–456 B.C., Greek version includes 100 fables not previously published in English. EURIDIPES 288 pp. 978-0-14-044649-4 $13.00 c. 484–406 B.C., Greek See The Portable Greek Reader. SOPHOCLES 496–406 B.C., Greek JAMES AGEE 1909–1955, American Greek Tragedy Translated by E. F. Watling, Philip Vellacott, Shomit Dutta, and Malcolm Heath Edited by Shomit Dutta Introduction by Simon Goodhill Containing Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, and Euripides’ Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect introductory volume. This volume also includes extracts from Aristophanes’ comedy The Frogs and a selection from Aristotle’s Poetics. A Death in the Family 352 pp. 978-0-14-14-143936-5 $16.00 Introduction by Steve Earle Winner of the Pulitzer Prize AESOP Published in 1957, two years after its c. 6th century B.C., Greek author’s death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. Featuring an introduction by country music legend Steve Earle, this edition is published for the centennial of James Agee’s birth. 320 pp. 978-0-14-310571-8 $16.00 ePub 9781440641794 Readers Guide Available The Complete Fables Translated by Olivia and Robert Temple with an Introduction by Robert Temple This definitive and fully annotated modern edition is the first translation ever to make available the complete corpus of 358 fables attributed to Aesop. Revealing PENGUIN CLASSICS 3 _ RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA presents an enduring portrait of desperate 1892–1927, Japanese friendship and vanished adolescence. 256 pp. 978-0-14-144189-4 $15.00 Rasho-mon and Seventeen Readers Guide Available Other Stories Introduction by Haruki Murakami “I find its depiction of golden time and place just as Translated with Notes by Jay Rubin poignant now.” —NICK HORNBY This brilliant translation of the Japanese master’s stories—half of which appear LEOPOLDO ALAS here in English for the first time— 1852–1901, Spanish ranges from the source for the movie Rasho-mon to Akutagawa’s later, more autobiographical writings. 320 pp. 978-0-14-303984-6 $17.00 Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition La Regenta Translated with an Introduction by John Rutherford An outstanding work of nineteenth- century Spanish literature, this novel set in Rasho-mon and Seventeen Other Stories a provincial town explores an intelligent Translated with Notes by Jay Rubin woman’s quest for fulfillment through Introduction by Haruki Murakami marriage, adultery, and religion.