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FROM: ALAN WALKER JANUARY-APRIL 2011 OMNIBUS ADVANCE TITLE INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS, SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, AND EDUCATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS Do what comes naturally: read a Penguin book. “To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”—William Shakespeare, Henry V. ADOPTION TITLES LINCOLN ON THE CIVIL WAR Selected Speeches —Abraham Lincoln (Penguin April 128 pp. A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE MUSEUM 978-0-14-311970-8 $12.00) OF COMMUNISM Fables from a Mouse, With a linen cover and original, foil-stamped a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, art, this elegant gathering of Lincoln’s signal a Dog, and a Raven—Slavenka Drakulic speeches—from 1838’s Address to the Young (Penguin March 204 pp. 978-0-14-311863-3 $14.00) Men’s Lyceum of Springfi eld, Illinois, to 1865’s The author of Café Europa presents an 8-part Speech on Reconstruction—commemorates exploration of Communism by way of an unusual the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the cast of narrators, each from a different country, American Civil War. who refl ect on the fall of Communism. QUAKER WRITINGS An Anthology, 1650–1920 ASK NOT The Inauguration of —Edited with an Introduction by Thomas D. Hamm John F. Kennedy and the Speech (Penguin Classics January 336 pp. That Changed America—Thurston Clarke 978-0-14-310631-9 $16.00) (Penguin January 304 pp. 978-0-14-311897-8 $16.00) Brings together writings from prominent Now featuring a new afterword, Clarke’s classic Friends—such as George Fox, Margaret Fell, portrait of JFK reveals the late president at William Penn, and John Woolman—that his most dazzlingly charismatic and cunningly illustrate the development of Quakerism, pragmatic. 16 pp. b/w photos. show the nature of Quaker spiritual life, discuss Quaker contributions to European and American civilization, and introduce the THE PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE diverse community of Friends. —Aristotle (Signet Classics January 544 pp. 978-0-451-53175-9 $7.95) Translated by J. L. Creed and A. E. Wardman. TEACHER’S GUIDES Introduction and Commentary by Renford Bambrough. New Afterword by Susanne Bobzien. Student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle continues to infl uence even today, as this collection of his most enduring works attests. Replaces ISBN 978-0-451-52887-2 TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK —Lorraine Hansberry (Signet Classics January 272 pp. 978-0-451-53178-0 $8.95) Check out our newest teacher’s guides Introduction by James Baldwin. The story of a on our website at young woman born in Chicago who came to us.penguingroup.com/tguides New York, won fame with her play A Raisin in the Sun—and went on to new heights of artistry Read online, print, or download before her tragic death. Replaces ISBN 978-0-451- for great activities to use in the classroom. 15952-6 Look for new guides Frankenstein, My Antonia, and Pride and Prejudice. 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014-3657 PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. 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WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC THREE BY TENNESSEE 100th Anniversary —Aaron Copland (Signet Classics Edition—Tennessee Williams (Signet Classics February 304 pp. 978-0-451-53176-6 $7.95) March 400 pp. 978-0-451-52908-4 $7.95) New Appreciation by Leonard Slatkin. With his These three plays—Sweet Bird of Youth, The provocative suggestions, the legendary American Rose Tattoo, and The Night of the Iguana— composer guides readers through a deeper demonstrate the immense power of his appreciation of the most rewarding of all art understanding of human nature and its frailties. forms. Replaces ISBN 978-0-451-52867-4 GREAT EXPECTATIONS—Charles Dickens ILL FARES THE LAND—Tony Judt (Penguin (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition January April 256 pp. 978-0-14-311876-3 $15.00) 352 pp. 978-0-14-310627-2 $15.00) With the “social contract” no longer part Introduction by Francine Prose. Cover art by of the common discourse, the late historian Richard Sala. A special graphic edition celebrates reinvigorated our political conversation, the 150th anniversary of its publication. As Pip furnishing the tools necessary to imagine a new eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a form of governance and a better way of life. new life as a gentleman, will he discover the true nature of his great expectations? FOUR PLAYS 100th Anniversary Edition— Tennessee Williams (Signet Classics March BLEAK HOUSE—Charles Dickens (Signet Classics 512 pp. 978-0-451-52914-5 $8.95) April 960 pp. 978-0-451-53190-2 $7.95) Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, New Introduction by Michael Slater. Afterword Suddenly Last Summer, and Period of Adjustment— by Elizabeth McCracken. Amid the fog of from one of the giants of twentieth-century London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless American drama. litigation over a dwindling inheritance, in the author’s masterpiece of social satire. Replaces ISBN 978-0-451-52869-8 JANUARY-APRIL 2011 TITLES PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. 2 OMNIBUS PHONE # 1-800-526-0275 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN 200th Anniversary WUTHERING HEIGHTS—Emily Brontë (Signet Edition—Harriet Beecher Stowe (Signet Classics Classics March 352 pp. 978-0-451-53179-7 $5.95) February 544 pp. 978-0-451-53080-6 $5.95) Introduction by Alice Hoffman. New Afterword Introduction by Darryl Pinckney. Afterword by Juliet Barker. There are few more convincing, by Jonathan Arac. As the novel that helped to less sentimental accounts of passionate love than move a nation to battle, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an the story of the tormented Heathcliff, who falls essential part of the collective experience of the wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw. Replaces American people. ISBN 978-0-451-52925-1 THE AENEID—Virgil (Penguin Classics THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO—Karl Marx January 496 pp. 978-0-14-310629-6 $16.00) and Friedrich Engels (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Translated by Robert Fagles. Introduction and March 128 pp. 978-0-14-310626-5 $13.00) Notes by Bernard Knox. “After his bestselling Introduction by Marshall Berman. Cover art by Iliad and Odyssey, today’s top-dog classical Killoffer. The theoretical basis of political systems translator hits the trifecta with Virgil’s epic about in Russia, China, Cuba, and Eastern Europe, The the founder of Rome.”—Newsweek. Communist Manifesto continues to infl uence and provoke debate on capitalism and class. THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS A Record of Secret Service—Erskine Childers (Penguin Classics THE SECRET GARDEN Centennial Edition February 352 pp. 978-0-14-310632-6 $12.00) —Frances Hodgson Burnett (Signet Classics Introduction by Erskine C. Childers. “Vibrant, January 288 pp. 978-0-451-52883-4 $3.95) impassioned, witty, intelligent and shamelessly Afterword by Sandra M. Gilbert. A lonely prejudiced in the manner of its day, The orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion Riddle of the Sands remains one of the great encounters two intriguing boys—and a foundation stones of the contemporary novel of mysterious, abandoned garden. Replaces ISBN espionage and adventure with political teeth.” 978-0-451-52883-4 —John le Carré. Replaces ISBN 978-0-14-118165-3 OLD MAN GORIOT—Honoré de Balzac (Penguin DON QUIXOTE—Miguel de Cervantes (Signet Classics April 320 pp. 978-0-14-044972-3 $14.00) Classics April 1,072 pp. 978-0-451-53181-0 $8.95) Translated by Olivia McCannon. Introduction Translated by Tom Lathrop. The epic story of by Graham Robb. A luminous new translation Don Quixote of La Mancha and his squire Sancho of the 19th-century classic: newly arrived in Panza in an acclaimed new translation that is Paris, Eugene fi nds a place to stay at a shabby as accessible as it is faithful to the original text. boarding house, where he sees the potential Replaces ISBN 978-0-451-53128-5 to make a fortune in two beautiful, aristocratic women who visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Replaces ISBN 978-0-14-044017-1 WHY WE CAN’T WAIT—Martin Luther King, Jr. (Signet Classics January 244 pp. 978-0-451-52753-0 $9.99) BLACK BEAUTY—Anna Sewell (Signet Classics Afterword by Rev. Jesse Jackson. In this enduring January 240 pp. 978-0-451-53174-2 $4.95) testament to his wise and courageous vision, Introduction by Monty Roberts. Afterword by Dr. King offers an analysis of the events that Lucy Grealy. One of the best loved animal stories propelled the Civil Rights movement to the ever written, told by the magnifi cent horse forefront of American consciousness. himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire’s estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse.