New Books New Books for Literature Course Use & Adoption Winter ~ Spring ~ Summer 2011

P E N G U I N G R O U P ( U S A ) new books new books for literature course use & adoption winter ~ spring ~ summer 2011 • • • I’m Naomi Weinstein, Manager, Penguin Academic Marketing. You can contact me with any questions or requests at [email protected] • • • P E N G U I N G R O U P ( U S A ) new books for course use & adoption winter ~ spring ~ summer 2011 Penguin Classics The Man Who Was Thursday: Ecclesiastical History of the English A Nightmare People: With Bede’s Letter to Egbert and G. K. Chesterton • Edited with an Introduction Cuthbert’s Letter on the Death of Bede Tales from 1,001 Nights: by Matthew Beaumont • 978-0-14-119146-1 Translated by David Dumville • 978-0-14- Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favorites • $12.00 • June 2011 • “A powerful picture of the 119211-6 • $16.00 • Feb 2011. Anonymous • Translated by Malcolm C. and loneliness and bewilderment which each of us Ursula Lyons • Introduction and Notes by encounters in his single-handed struggle with The Solitudes: A Dual-Language Robert Irwin • 978-0-14-119165-2 • $25.00 • Feb the universe.”—C.S. Lewis • “The most thrilling Edition with Parallel Text 2011 • Classics Hardcover Edition • “This is not book I have ever read.”—Kingsley Amis. Luis de Góngora • Translated with a Foreword a book to be read in a week. It is an ocean of and Notes by Edith Grossman • Introduction by stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this The Riddle of the Sands: Alberto Manguel • 978-0-14-310638-8 • $25.00 new Penguin edition is the one to have.” A Record of the Secret Service • July 2011 • A Penguin Classics original —The Sunday Times (London). Erskine Childers • Introduction by great-grand- translation. • Grossman is the acclaimed son, Erskine Childers IV • 978-0-14-310632-6 translator of Don Quixote, as well as books by Persuasion • $15.00 • Feb 2011 • “Vibrant, impassioned, Gabriel García Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Jane Austen • With a New Introduction by Colm witty, intelligent and shamelessly prejudiced in Mario Vargas Llosa. Tóibín • Cover by Audrey Niffenegger the manner of its day, The Riddle of the Sands • 978-0-14-310628-9 • $16.00 • July 2011 remains one of the great foundation stones of The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence • Classics Deluxe Edition. the contemporary novel of espionage and Baltasar Gracián • Translation and Introduction adventure with political teeth.”—John le Carré. by Jeremy Robbins • 978-0-14-144245-7 • $13.00 Old Man Goriot • Apr 2011 • “Absolutely unique…a book made Honoré de Balzac • Translated by Olivia McCannon Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for constant use—a companion for life.” • 978-0-14-044972-3 • $14.00 • Apr 2011. Roald Dahl • Introduction by Lev Grossman —Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher. • Cover art by Ivan Brunetti • 978-0-14-310633-3 Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis • $15.00 • Aug2011 • Classics Deluxe Edition Quaker Writings: and Chloe, Letters of Chion • New to Penguin Classics. An Anthology, 1650-1920 Chariton, Longus, Anonymous • Newly Edited with an Introduction by Thomas D. Translated by Rosanna Omitowoju, Phiroze James and the Giant Peach Hamm • 978-0-14-310631-9 • $16.00 • Feb 2011 Vasunia, and John Penwill • Edited with an Roald Dahl • Introduction by Lev Grossman • First time in Penguin Classics • Includes Introduction and Notes by Helen Morales • Cover art by Jordan Crane • 978-0-14-310634-0 mini-classics from historic Quaker leaders of • 978-0-14-044925-9 • $17.00 • June 2011 • A trio • $15.00 • Aug 2011 • Classics Deluxe Edition human rights and feminist movements. of tales offering an alternative view of ancient • New to Penguin Classics. Greece’s literary culture. Great Expectations Mary Chesnut’s Diary Charles Dickens • Introduction by Francine Mary Boykin Chesnut • Introduction by Prose • Cover by Richard Sala Catherine Clinton • 978-0-14-310606-7 • $15.00 • 978-0-14-310627-2 • $15.00 • Jan 2011 • May 2011 • Published for the 150th anniversary • Graphic Deluxe Edition • Marks the 150th of the beginning of the Civil War • “A great epic anniversary of the first serialized publication drama of our greatest national tragedy.” of Great Expectations. —William Styron. PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Martyred The Book of Tea Richard E. Kim • Introduction by Heinz Insu Kakuzo Okakura • Introduction by Christopher SIGNET ClASSICS Fenkl • Foreword by Susan Choi Benfey • 978-0-14-119184-3 • $11.00 • Jan 2011 • 978-0-14-310640-1 • $16.00 • June 2011 • “A seminal guide to Asian life and thought… The Philosophy of Aristotle • “Written in a mood of total austerity; and yet Very highly recommended.”—Midwest Book Aristotle • Introduction and Commentary by the passion of the book is perpetually beating up Review. Renford Bambrough • Translated by J. L. against its seemingly barren surface….I am Creed and A. E. Wardman The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore deeply moved.”—Philip Roth • “Kim’s book • 978-0-451-53175-9 • $7.95 • Jan 2011 Newly Translated and Edited with an Introduc- stands out as one written in the great moral and • “[Stresses] the importance of Aristotle’s tion by Andrew Orchard • 978-0-14-043585-6 psychological tradition of Job, Dostoevsky, and discussion of problems that still perplex.” • $15.00 • Aug 2011 • Compiled by an unknown Albert Camus…It is a magnificent achievement, —Renford Bambrough, Cambridge scribe around 1270 and based on sources dating and it will last.”—The New York Times Book University. Review. back centuries earlier, these poems tell the heroic deeds of gods and mortals alike. Wuthering Heights The Man Who Would Be King: Emily Brontë • With a New Introduction by The Roosevelt I Knew Selected Stories Alice Hoffman • 978-0-451-53179-7 • $5.95 Frances Perkins • Introduction by Adam Cohen Rudyard Kipling • Edited with an Introduction • Mar 2011. by Jan Montefiore • 978-0-14-144235-4 • $15.00 • 978-0-14-310641-8 • $17.00 • July 2011 • New • Aug 2011. to Penguin Classics • An intimate portrait of the The Secret Garden New Deal president by the first woman ever Frances Hodgson Burnett • Afterword by Plain Tales from the Hills appointed to the U.S. cabinet. Sandra M. Gilbert • 978-0-451-52883-4 • $3.95 Rudyard Kipling • Edited with an Introduction • Jan 2011 • “A blend of power, vivid interest, The Last Days of Socrates by Kaori Nagai • Series Editor Jan Montefiore and honest goodness. Yes, if this is magic, it is Plato • Newly Translated with an Introduction • 978-0-14-144239-6 • $13.00 • Aug 2011 • good magic.”—The New York Times. Includes “Lispeth,” “Beyond the Pale” and “In and Notes by Christopher Rowe the Pride of His Youth.” • 978-0-14-045549-6 • $14.00 • Feb 2011. Don Quixote Migel de Cervantes • Newly Translated by The Rape of the Lock The Communist Manifesto Tom Lathrop • 978-0-451-53181-0 • $8.95 • and Other Major Writings Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels • Introduction Apr 2011 • “Truly a remarkable achievement.” Alexander Pope • Edited with an Introduction by Marshall Berman • Cover by Killoffer —Michael J. McGrath. • 978-0-14-310626-5 • $13.00 • Mar 2011 and Notes by Leo Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum • Graphic Deluxe Edition. Professor of Literature at Harvard Christ in Concrete • 978-0-14-042350-1 • $20.00 • July 2011. Pietro di Donato • Preface by Studs Terkel Spunyarn: A Collection • Introduction by Fred L. Gardaphé El Filibusterismo of Sea Poetry and Prose • 978-0-451-52575-8 • $8.95 • Apr 2011 José Rizal • Translated with an Introduction and John Masefield • Edited with an Introduction • Centennial Edition. and Notes by Philip W. Errington Notes by Harold Augenbraum • 978-0-14-119160-7 • $15.00 • June 2011 • One • 978-0-14-310639-5 • $17.00 • June 2011 • In the of England’s greatest writers on seafaring and spirit of The Count of Monte Cristo and Les The Life of John Thompson, the sea. Miserables, a major new translation—José Rizal’s continuation of Noli Me Tangere. A Fugitive Slave In Corner B John Thompson • Edited with an Introduction Es’kia Mphahele • New Introduction by Peter The Penguin Book of Victorian Women by William L. Andrews • Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Thuynsma • 978-0-14-310602-9 • $15.00 • Feb in Crime: All the Great Detectives General Editor • 978-0-14-310642-5 • $14.00 2011 • New to Penguin Classics • “It is only in and a Few Great Crooks • July 2011 • New to Penguin Classics • The Mphahlele’s vision that the other side of the Edited with an Introduction and Notes by unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom picture of everyday life in South Africa Michael Sims • 978-0-14-310621-0 • $15.00 • Feb and sailed aboard a whaling vessel. emerges…For Mphahlele, it is the whites who 2011 • Features such characters as Loveday are peripheral, even if they do have all the Brooke, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, and the The Aeneid Virgil • Translated by Robert Fagles power.”—The Times Literary Supplement (UK). villainous murderer Madame Sara. • Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox Medieval Writings on Secular Women • 978-0-14-310629-6 • $16.00 • Jan 2011 • “The Edited with Introductions by Patricia Skinner Fagles translation is destined to be the English and Elizabeth van Houts • 978-0-14-143991-4 Aeneid of the new century.”—The Wall Street • $17.00 • June 2011 • The first collection to Journal • “Fagles’s new version of Virgil’s epic bring together the forgotten female voices of the delicately melds the stately rhythms of the Middle Ages. original to a contemporary cadence.” —The New Yorker. The Georgics: A Poem of the Land Virgil • Translated by Kimberly Johnson • 978-0-14-045563-2 • $15.00 • Feb 2011 • Virgil’s glorious celebration of the natural world— brought to life in a powerful new translation by Kimberly Johnson, poet and professor at Brigham Young University.

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