New Books New Books for Literature Course Use & Adoption Fall 2014 / Spring 2015
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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books new books for literature course use & adoption fall 2014 / spring 2015 I’m Therese Neumann, Midwest College Field Sales Representative You can contact me with any questions or requests at [email protected] • • • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books for course use & adoption fall 2014 / spring 2015 PENGUIN CLASSICS The Analects Les Miserables Confucius • Edited and Translated with an Victor Hugo • Translated with Notes by Introduction and Notes by Annping Chin • Christine Donougher • Introduction by Robert Jason and the Argonauts 978-0-14-310685-2 • $16.00 • Oct 2014 • One Tombs • Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki • Apollonius of Rhodes • Newly Translated by of the most influential books in history, in a new 978-0-14-310756-9 • $23.00 • Mar 2015 • Aaron Poochigian • Introduction and Notes by translation by one of the pre-eminent scholars Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • The first new Benjamin Acosta-Hughes • 978-0-14-310686-9 of Confucius. • “An incomparable new volume Penguin Classics translation in forty years of • $15.00 • Nov 2014 • The first new Penguin that combines a fresh and sympathetic translation Victor Hugo’s masterpiece. • “Donougher’s Classics translation of the Argonautica with a wonderfully readable annotation. It. translation is a magnificent achievement . —the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their will unlock a whole new level of meaning for [B]rings the full flavour of one of the greatest search for the golden fleece—since the 1950s. English-language readers.”—Orville Schell, novels of the nineteenth century to new readers Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations in the twenty-first.”—William Doyle, Times The Poetics of Space and co-author of Wealth and Power: China’s Literary Supplement Gaston Bachelard • Foreword by Mark Z. Long March to the Twenty-First Century Danielewski • Introduction by Richard Kearney The Aspern Papers and Other Tales • 978-0-14-310752-1 • $17.00 • Jan 2015 • The Portable Emerson Henry James • Introduction and Notes by A rumination on the spaces we inhabit and the Ralph Waldo Emerson • Edited with an Michael Gorra • Edited by Philip Horne • dreams and memories that fill them, this Introduction by Jeffrey S. Cramer • 978-0-14- 978-0-14-138979-0 • $13.00 • Mar 2015 • A seminal work continues to be studied and 310746-0 • $20.00 • Jan 2015 • An updated, new selection of seven of Henry James’s short enjoyed by philosophers, architects, writers, comprehensive collection of representative stories exploring the relationship between art and literary theorists alike. • “He has a works by the founder of America’s intellectual and life, edited by Pulitzer Prize–nominated pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand tradition. • “[Emerson is] the one citizen of the James biographer Michael Gorra. on religion . He is a philosopher, with a New World fit to have his name uttered in the professional training in the sciences.”—The same breath with that of Plato.”—John Dewey Childhood New York Times Book Review Jona Oberski • Afterword by Jim Shepard • The Penguin Book of Witches Translated by Ralph Manheim • 978-0-14-310741-5 The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma Edited with an Introduction by Katherine • $14.00 • Dec 2014 • A classic of Holocaust Lima Barreto • Translated by Mark Carlyon • Howe • 978-0-14-310618-0 • $17.00 • Oct 2014 literature, Childhood is the true story of a four- Introduction by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz • • The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of year-old boy’s experience in the Bergen-Belsen 978-0-14-139570-8 • $18.00 • Feb 2015 • historical accounts of accused witches that sheds concentration camp. • “A child sees the barbarities Policarpo Quaresma is a defender of all things light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing of an event such as the Holocaust not in terms of Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his to life stories from medieval Europe through race and politics, but in the way a Martian would beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his colonial America, this volume provides a unique see them, as amazing and stupefying instances of ventures results in ridicule and disaster. tour through the darkest history of English and the cruelty of man. Jona Oberski conveys this North American witchcraft. • “An informative amazement in an unembroidered and memorable and engaging series of texts that Katherine Howe way.”—Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler’s List introduces in a crisp and well-informed manner. The chronological breadth is unusual, but it allows us to grasp more fully the continuities that mark the history of witch-hunting on both sides of the Atlantic.”—David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School * All Penguin Classics titles are in paperback (PB) PENGUIN GROUP (USA) US FICTION Sweet Thunder Ivan Doig • 978-1-59463-276-1 • $16.00 • Aug 2014 • Riverhead • A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana. • “[A] stirring tale of greed, corruption, and the power of past sins . Doig’s attention to detail, both historical and concerning characters of his own creation, is as sharp as ever.”—Publishers Weekly • “[A] marvelously atmospheric portrait of the bygone newspaper trade and an engaging The Turnip Princess: and Other Newly POETRY cast of characters sketched with the author’s Discovered Fairy Tales customary vigor. .welcome evidence that Doig, in his 70s, is more prolific and entertaining than Franz Xaver von Schonwerth • Edited with a ever.”—Kirkus Foreword by Erika Eichenseer • Translated Instant Winner Carrie Fountain • 978-0-14-312663-8 • $20.00 • with an Introduction and Commentaries by A Sister to Honor Oct 2014 • Penguin • The poems in Fountain’s Maria Tatar • Illustrated by Engelbert Suss • Lucy Ferriss • 978-0-425-27640-2 • $16.00 • Jan second collection take the form of prayers and 978-0-14-310742-2 • $16.00 • Mar 2015 • A 2015 • Berkley • Afia Satar is studious, modest, meditations chronicling the existential shifts just-discovered trove of fairy tales by a and devout. The young daughter of a brought on by parenthood, spiritual searching, contemporary of the Brothers Grimm—now landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia and the profound, often beguiling experience of for the first time in English. • “Schönwerth’s has enrolled in an American college with the being a self, inside a body, with a soul. tales have a compositional fierceness and dream of returning to her country as a doctor. energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the How to Be Drawn But when a photo surfaces online of Afia Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault.”—The holding hands with an American boy, she is New Yorker Terrance Hayes • 978-0-14-312688-1 • $20.00 • Apr 2015 • Penguin • A new collection of suddenly no longer safe—even from the family Devil on the Cross poetry by the National Book Award–winning that cherishes her. • “A Sister to Honor is a powerful exploration of faith, family, and the Ngugi wa Thiong’o • Introduction by author of Lighthead. In his fifth collection, deep cultural divides that threaten to destroy Binyavanga Wainaina • 978-0-14-310736-1 • Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are these in our modern world. Ferriss has written $16.00 • May 2015 • Wariinga moves from a seen. While many of these poems bear the a remarkable novel that strikes the perfect rural Kenyan town to Nairobi only to be clearest imprint yet of Hayes’s background as a balance between the global and the personal.”— exploited by her boss and later by a corrupt visual artist, they do not strive to describe art Ivy Pochoda, author of Visitation Street businessman. As she struggles to survive, so much as inhabit it. Wariinga realizes that her problems are Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy Redeployment symptoms of a larger societal malaise and that Phil Klay • 978-0-14-312682-9 • $16.00 • Feb much of the misfortune stems from the Joanna Klink • 978-0-14-312687-4 • $20.00 • Apr 2015 • Penguin • Joanna Klink has won 2015 • Penguin • Phil Klay’s Redeployment takes Western, capitalist influences on her country. • readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and “One of our century’s great novels.”—Tribune acclaim for poetry of bracing emotional intensity. The poems in Klink’s new collection Afghanistan, asking us to understand what The River Between offer a closely keyed meditation on being happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. • “Gritty, unsparing and Ngugi wa Thiong’o • Introduction by alone—on a self fighting its way out of fiercely observed, these stories leave us with a Uzodinma Iweala • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00 isolation, toward connection with other people harrowing sense of the war in Iraq as it was • May 2015 • A legendary work of African and a vanishing world experienced, day by day, by individual literature by a Nobel Prize contender, this novel soldiers.”—The New York Times explores life in the mountains of Kenya during Blue Horses the early days of white settlement. Faced with a Mary Oliver • 978-1-59420-479-1 • $24.95 • Oct 2014 • Penguin Press • A new poetry I Am Radar choice between a new religion and their Reif Larsen • 978-1-59420-616-0 • $29.95 • Mar ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn collection from the New York Times bestselling poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In her 2015 • Penguin Press • In 1975, a black child between those who fear the unknown and named Radar Radmanovic is mysteriously born those who see beyond it. • “Unparalleled as a collection of new poems, Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, to white parents. Though Radar is raised in chronicler of elemental change.”—The suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes Guardian describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.