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Edited with a New Introduction by David Bromwich Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, The National Book Award-winning author skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s Penguin Classics Paperback • 272 pages • 978-0-14-144135-1 • $7.00 Paperbacks $5.00 . Hardcovers $10.00 Sapphire gives voice to Precious’s son, Abdul. humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, “Captures the grueling heartbreak of trying to love anything when the world doesn’t love you enough, indeed, to all times. A perfect match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? gives us a renewed Title ISBN Fee The Portrait of a Lady of trying to summon desire or affection in the absence of any healthy context for either one.”—The New appreciation of both Melville and the proud seaman’s town of Nantucket that Philbrick himself calls home. Edited with a New Introduction by Philip Horne York Times “In thematic chapters, Philbrick observes Moby-Dick through a variety of lenses—historical, philosophi- Penguin Classics Paperback • 560 pages • 978-0-14-144126-9 • $13.00 “Sapphire has taken the challenges her Kid faces and distilled them into a devastating voice, demanding cal, biographical, literary, and maritime—all demonstrating the book’s ongoing fascinations and the ease and raw....An accomplished work of art.”—Los Angeles Times with which today’s readers can enter the novel’s world.”—Library Journal Viking Hardcover • 144 pages • 978-0-670-02299-1 • $25.00 Course Name:______What Maisie Knew “Sapphire, a fearless writer with complete command of her story, spares the reader nothing—no com- Edited with a New Introduction by Christopher Ricks fort, no room to turn away. The only possible respite can be found in the poetry of her prose.”—The Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______Penguin Classics Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-144137-5 • $13.00 Washington Post Penguin Press Hardcover • 384 pages • 978-1-59420-304-6 • $25.95 Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Letters Danielle Evans Edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford Course Name:______Iola Leroy Vivid and enthralling, these letters—two-thirds of which have never been published—date from Ker- Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______Introduction by Hollis Robbins Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self ouac and Ginsberg’s first meeting in 1944 to Kerouac’s untimely death in 1969, and chronicle the endless Henry Louis Gates, Jr., series editor struggle, anguish, and sacrifice involved in giving form to their literary visions. An electric debut story collection by a literary prodigy about young African-American and mixed-raced In this landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath, teens, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. “The publication of these letters between two of America’s leading 20th-century authors is an extraordi- the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold nary event in American literature.”—Library Journal “Evans’s whipsmart first story collection charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood. Penguin Paperback • 528 pages • 978-0-14-311954-8 • $20.00 Course Name:______dubiously known as being a grown-up....Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle for a “One of the most significant contributions to early Black literature.”—Jane Campbell, Purdue University place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest obstacles they face are Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______“Iola Leroy represents the transition from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance and links often their own selves.”—New York Times Book Review Afro-American fiction to women’s fiction. It is a work that has excited controversy and that is currently “Evans’ blisteringly smart short stories offer fresh perspective on being young and black in America. Saul Bellow exciting scholastic interest.”—Frances Smith Foster, Emory University From a vandalizing valedictorian to a rejected biracial child, her characters triumph by surviving with- Letters “Iola Leroy is a novel filled with the complexities and contradictions of black and female existence in out forgetting.”—Time magazine Edited by Benjamin Taylor Course Name:______America in the nineteenth century.”—The Women’s Review of Books Riverhead paperback • 240 pages • 978-1-59448-536-7 • $15.00 Penguin Classics Paperback • 256 pages • 978-0-14-310604-3 • $15.00 Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize “Magnificent....The man is all here in this book, in his stunning, almost baffling plenitude. Bellow’s letters Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______are one of Bellow’s greatest books.”—The New York Times Book Review Viking Hardcover • 608 Pages • 978-0-670-02221-2 • $35.00 John Thompson James Welch Penguin Paperback • 608 pages • 978-0-14-312046-9 • $20.00 • Available March 2012 Subtotal:______Please indicate your form of payment below: *Sales Tax:______The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave Fools Crow The Victim With a New Introduction by Thomas McGuane  Visa  Master Card  AmEx  Discover Exp. Date:______Total Fee:______Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape New Introduction by Norman Rush Edited with an Introduction by William L. Andrews The 25th-anniversary edition of James Welch’s stunningly evocative portrait of his people’s bygone way Penguin Classics Paperback • 272 pages • 978-0-14-310610-4 • $16.00 Card No.:______of life. In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana in 1870, white men are moving onto the lands of a Henry Louis Gates, Jr., series editor Name:______* Appropriate state and local small band of Blackfeet Indians and Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man, has seen the future. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson chronicles Thompson’s enslavement, his escape, sales tax must be included for and his life in the North, where he lived as a free man until fear of recapture drove him to flee once “Extraordinary...plunges the reader with startling abruptness into an Indian world, a world in which Signature:______your order to be processed. again—this time to sea aboard the Milwood, a whaling vessel. The only fugitive slave narrator to report reality is idyllic and bitter, hard-edged and magical.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review. More Content! More Context! Card Address (if different from shipping address):______Paperbacks: $5.00 a whaling voyage, Thompson crafted from his seafaring experience an allegorical sermon that caps his “A novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American get deep into a book with amplified eBooks and apps ______Hardcovers: $10.00 life and renders it a kind of African American Pilgrim’s Progress, as well as a narrative of struggle with, literature.”—Wallace Stegner escape from, and triumph over American slavery. Penguin Classics Paperback • 416 pages • 978-0-14-310651-7 • $16.00 Amplified eBooks and apps provide readers with a deeper understanding and ap- Telephone:______Send Completed Form To: Penguin Classics Paperback • 160 pages • 978-0-14-310642-5 • $14.00 Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award and an American Book Award preciation of the text. Penguin editors work closely with authors, estates, and media PENGUIN GROUP (USA) partners to bring readers carefully selected video and audio clips, photographs and Academic Marketing Dept. Ship To: 375 Hudson Street María Amparo Ruiz de Burton exclusive text materials such as timelines, character lists, and interviews. New York, NY 10014-3657 Junot Díaz Or: Name:______Who Would Have Thought It? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Visit penguin.com/ampified_ebooks for more information Fax requests with completed Edited with an Introduction by Amelia María de la Luz Montes School:______credit card details to The first novel in English by a Mexican American woman, Who Would Have Thought It? tells the story of The story of a disastrously overweight Dominican teenager living in New Jersey, who dreams of becom- 212.366.2933 Department:______Lola, an orphaned Mexican girl rescued from Indian captors by one Dr. Norval, who then returns with ing the next J.R.R. Tolkien and finding love, in spite of the curse that has haunted his family. Of Mice and Men Amplified (Enriched Edition) All orders are subject to stock Lola to his New England home. Through the riveting personal story of a young girl’s coming-of-age, “An extraordinarily vibrant book that’s fueled by adrenaline-powered prose....Decisively establishes [Díaz] On the Road App Street Address (required):______availability at the time they are Who Would Have Thought It? offers a stunning portrayal of the clash of cultures and communities, and as one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive and irresistible new voices.”—The New York Times. processed. Please wait to order Atlas Shrugged App ______a fresh perspective on Civil War America. An appendix includes newly translated letters about the Civil “Balance[s] an intimate, multigenerational story of familial tragedy with a meditation on the larger hor- our forthcoming titles until the available month. War and U.S. politics of the time. rors that have gripped their homeland.”—The Boston Globe. City:______State:______Zip:______Penguin Classics Paperback • 368 pages • 978-0-14-310587-9 • $15.00 Books will be sent to school Riverhead Paperback • 352 pages • 978-1-59448-329-5 • $15.00 and many more! address only. Allow a minimum winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the national Book Critics Circle Award This order form is for books to be considered for course adoption only. of 10 business days for delivery. All examination copy orders require a U.S. ship-to address. Questions? Comments? Contact us at: [email protected] No PO boxes please. www.penguin.com/academic . American Literature 2012 www.penguin.com/academic . American Literature 2012 www.penguin.com/academic . American Literature 2012 Henry James Sapphire Nathaniel Philbrick Examination Copy Order Form / American Literature 2012 The Turn of the Screw The Kid Why Read Moby-Dick? Edited with a New Introduction by David Bromwich Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, The National Book Award-winning author skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s Penguin Classics Paperback • 272 pages • 978-0-14-144135-1 • $7.00 Paperbacks $5.00 . Hardcovers $10.00 Sapphire gives voice to Precious’s son, Abdul. humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, “Captures the grueling heartbreak of trying to love anything when the world doesn’t love you enough, indeed, to all times. A perfect match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? gives us a renewed Title ISBN Fee The Portrait of a Lady of trying to summon desire or affection in the absence of any healthy context for either one.”—The New appreciation of both Melville and the proud seaman’s town of Nantucket that Philbrick himself calls home. Edited with a New Introduction by Philip Horne York Times “In thematic chapters, Philbrick observes Moby-Dick through a variety of lenses—historical, philosophi- Penguin Classics Paperback • 560 pages • 978-0-14-144126-9 • $13.00 “Sapphire has taken the challenges her Kid faces and distilled them into a devastating voice, demanding cal, biographical, literary, and maritime—all demonstrating the book’s ongoing fascinations and the ease and raw....An accomplished work of art.”—Los Angeles Times with which today’s readers can enter the novel’s world.”—Library Journal Viking Hardcover • 144 pages • 978-0-670-02299-1 • $25.00 Course Name:______What Maisie Knew “Sapphire, a fearless writer with complete command of her story, spares the reader nothing—no com- Edited with a New Introduction by Christopher Ricks fort, no room to turn away. The only possible respite can be found in the poetry of her prose.”—The Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______Penguin Classics Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-144137-5 • $13.00 Washington Post Penguin Press Hardcover • 384 pages • 978-1-59420-304-6 • $25.95 Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Letters Danielle Evans Edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford Course Name:______Iola Leroy Vivid and enthralling, these letters—two-thirds of which have never been published—date from Ker- Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______Introduction by Hollis Robbins Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self ouac and Ginsberg’s first meeting in 1944 to Kerouac’s untimely death in 1969, and chronicle the endless Henry Louis Gates, Jr., series editor struggle, anguish, and sacrifice involved in giving form to their literary visions. An electric debut story collection by a literary prodigy about young African-American and mixed-raced In this landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath, teens, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. “The publication of these letters between two of America’s leading 20th-century authors is an extraordi- the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold nary event in American literature.”—Library Journal “Evans’s whipsmart first story collection charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood. 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An electric debut story collection by a literary prodigy about young African-American and mixed-raced In this landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath, teens, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. “The publication of these letters between two of America’s leading 20th-century authors is an extraordi- the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold nary event in American literature.”—Library Journal “Evans’s whipsmart first story collection charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood. 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