Advance Title Information for Teachers, School Librarians, and Educational Distributors

FROM: ALAN WALKER SUMMER 2015 ADVANCE TITLE INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS, SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, AND EDUCATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS “A good book . leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.” —Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. ADOPTION TITLES PLAYING TO THE GALLERY Helping Contemporary Art in Its IMMIGRANT VOICES Volume 2—Gordon Hutner Struggle to Be Understood—Grayson Perry (NAL June 448 pp. 978-0-451-47281-6 $15.00) (Penguin May 128 pp. 978-0-14-312735-2 $25.00) From the humorous experiences of Firoozeh The Turner Prize winner shares his perspective on Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi, to the poignant modern art and the art world with his accessible struggles of Oksana Marafioti, author of American and witty voice. “Full of thought-provoking ideas Gypsy, this collection travels the world to present that make you want to pause on every page and incredible contemporary portraits of immigrants. say: ’Discuss.’ I have never read such a stimulating Also of Interest: Immigrant Voices 978-0-451- short guide to art. It should be issued as a set 52698-4 text in every school.”—The Sunday Times (UK). SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY 100th THE CIVIL WAR IN 50 OBJECTS—Harold Holzer Anniversary Edition—Edgar Lee Masters (Signet and New York Historical Society (Penguin Classics May 336 pp. 978-0-451-53058-5 $7.95) May 416 pp. 978-0-14-312814-4 $20.00) Introduction by John Hollander. Afterword by Introduction by Eric Foner. “Holzer…showcas[es] Ronald Primeau. Masters raises the dead “sleeping the era through such artifacts as a pair of slave’s on the hill” in their village cemetery to tell the shackles sized for the wrists of a child and a copy, truth about their lives, and their testimony signed by Abraham Lincoln, of the manuscript for topples the American myth of the moral the 13th Amendment.”—The Washington Post. superiority of small-town life. Color photos. BABBITT—Sinclair Lewis (Signet Classics May TEACHER’S GUIDES 432 pp. 978-0-451-47371-4 $7.95) Introduction by Sally E. Parry. Afterword by Azar Nafisi. The Roaring Twenties and middle-class malaise shake up the life of a social-climbing real estate broker in the Midwestern town of Zenith. “[It is] by its hardness, its efficiency, its compactness that Mr. Lewis’s work excels.”—Virginia Woolf. Replaces ISBN 978-0-451-53061-5. THE SECRET AGENT—Joseph Conrad (Signet Check out our newest teacher’s guides on our Classics August 288 pp. 978-0-451-47429-2 $6.95) website at www.penguin.com / tguides Introduction by E. L. Doctorow. A chillingly Read online, print, or download prophetic examination of terrorism that is a for great activities to use in the classroom. literary precursor to the espionage thrillers of such writers as Graham Greene and John Le Carré. Look for new guides: Cod, Escape from Camp Replaces ISBN 978-0-451-53050-9. 14, Lord of the Flies, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Twelve Years a Slave and Walden and Civil Disobedience 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014-3657 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Telephone: 1-800-526-0275 • Fax: 212-366-2933 • Email: [email protected] Sixteen Penguin Group adult titles were selected by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) as Outstanding Books for the College Bound, a list YALSA revises only once every five years. Twenty-five titles are chosen for each of four categories. Here are more details about the list and the full selections: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2014-outstanding-books-college-bound-and-lifelong-learners For a full list of Penguin Random House titles selected please go to: www.randomhouse.com/highschool/yalsa.html THE RAINBOW 100th Anniversary Edition THE HISTORIES—Herodotus (Penguin Classics Deluxe —D. H. Lawrence (Signet Classics August Edition May 880 pp. 978-0-14-310754-5 $23.00) 544 pp. 978-0-451-53030-1 $6.95) Translated by Tom Holland. Introduction and Notes Introduction by Daphne Merkin. Lush with by Paul Cartledge. A fascinating sourcebook for religious and metaphysical imagery, this is the the ancient world that remains vividly contempo- story of three generations of the Brangwen rary in its appreciation of cultural difference in family, set against the decline of their rural the acclaimed new translation. English existence in the face of industrialization. TARTUFFE AND OTHER PLAYS THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Volume I: The Marvels —Jean-Baptiste Moliere (Signet Classics and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights July 448 pp. 978-0-451-47431-5 $7.95) —Anonymous (Signet Classics August 592 pp. Translated with an Introduction by Donald M. 978-0-451-53059-2 $8.95) Frame. Foreword by Virginia Scott. This memorable Translated by Richard Francis Burton. Adapted by collection gathers the plays of the great social Jack Zipes. Introduction by Daniel Beaumont. This satirist and playwright Molière, representing the edition follows the unexpurgated translation of many facets of his genius and offering a superb Burton, the renowned Victorian explorer. Intricate introduction to the comic inventiveness, richness and inventive, these stories within stories continue of prose, and insight that make up Molière’s to captivate readers as they have for centuries. enduring legacy to theater, literature, and the world. Replaces ISBN 978-0-451-53033-2. THE SONNETS—William Shakespeare (Signet Classics August 288 pp. 978-0-451-52727-1 $5.95) AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS A special introduction by W. H. Auden complements —Jules Verne (Signet Classics July literary criticism by William Empson, Hallett Smith, 272 pp. 978-0-451-47428-5 $4.95) Winifred M. T. Nowottny, and Helen Vendler, with Introduction by Herbert Lottman. Afterword by detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page. Karen J. Renner. A riveting race against time and an action-packed odyssey into the unknown, HERZOG—Saul Bellow (Penguin Classics Around the World in Eighty Days is a masterpiece May 400 pp. 978-0-14-310767-5 $18.00) of adventure fiction that has captured the Introduction by Philip Roth. “Every single page of imaginations of generations of readers and Herzog teems with jokes, apercus, deep-thinker continues to enthrall us today. Replaces ISBN riffs—little genius moves every other sentence. 978-0-451-52977-0. The impulse is to read the entire book out loud.”—Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex. THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES And Other Stories 75th-Anniversary Edition THE MISANTHROPE AND OTHER PLAYS —Angela Carter (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition —Jean-Baptiste Molière (Signet Classics June 176 pp. 978-0-14-310761-3 $16.00) 512 pp. July 978-0-451-52987-9 $7.95) Introduction by Kelly Link. “[Carter] was, among Introduction by Donald M. Frame. Afterword by other things, a quirky, original, and baroque Lewis Seifert. Written during the triumphant stylist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody final years of Molière’s career, these seven works Chamber—her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned represent the mature flowering of his artistry phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and and the most profound development of his hearty, up-theirs vulgarity.”—Margaret Atwood, vision of humanity. The Observer. SUMMER 2015 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP 2 PHONE # 1-800-526-0275 Twentieth Annual Student Scholarship Essay Contest Enter for the opportunity to win a $1,000 scholarship and a complete Signet Classics library for your school! Write an essay on Little Women. Talk to your teacher and get the information to enter... you could win a scholarship! IN SCHOLARSHIPS $5,000 FOR JUNIORS AND SENIORS VISIT WWW.PENGUIN.COM/ESSAYHOME AFTER JULY 2015 WHEN YOU ARE OLD Early Poems, Plays, and CRIME AND PUNISHMENT—Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fairy Tales—William Butler Yeats (Penguin Classics (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition July 608 pp. June 368 pp. 978-0-14-310764-4 $16.00) 978-0-14-310763-7 $20.00) Edited with an Introduction by Rob Doggett. A Translated with an Introduction and Notes by collection of beautiful early poems, prose, and Oliver Ready. “This vivid, stylish and rich drama by one of the 20th century’s greatest rendition by Oliver Ready compels the attention poets, this is Yeats’s first appearance in black of the reader in a way that none of the others spine for the 150th anniversary of his birth. I’ve read comes close to matching. Using a clear and forceful mid-20th-century idiom, Ready gives PLUNKITT OF TAMMANY HALL A Series of us an entirely new kind of access to Dostoyevsky’s Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics singular, self-reflexive and at times unnervingly —William L. Riordan (Signet Classics June comic text.”—John Gray, New Statesman, “Books 128 pp. 978-0-451-47413-1 $6.95) of the Year.” Introduction by Peter Quinn. Afterword by Philip Freeman. This classic work offers the unblushing, ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS fascinating figures ever to play the American 150th Anniversary Edition—Lewis Carroll political game and win. (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition July 272 pp. 978-0-14-310762-0 $16.00) COMMON SENSE and The American Crisis I Introduction by Charlie Lovett. Illustrated by —Thomas Paine (Penguin Classics July 128 pp. John Tenniel. “Wonderland and the world 978-0-14-310759-0 $12.00) through the Looking Glass were, I always knew, Introduction by Richard Beeman. “No writer has different from other imagined worlds. Nothing exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style; in could be changed, although things in the story perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, were always changing . Carroll moves his and in simple unassuming language.”—Thomas readers as he moves chess pieces and playing Jefferson.

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