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SC New Books Lit Winter16 111615C.Indd new books for literature course use & adoption spring 2016 PENGUIN CLASSICS The Tale of Tales The Penguin Book Giambattista Basile • Translated with Notes by of Russian Poetry Nancy L. Canepa • Foreword by Jack Zipes • Edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Early Fiction in England: 978-0-14-312914-1 • $20.00 • Feb 2016 • Soon Irina Mashinski • Notes by Robert Chandler • to be a major motion picture, The Tale of Tales From Geoffrey of Monmouth 978-0-14-119830-9 • $20.00 • Dec 2015 • A col- is a fantastical cycle of 50 fairy tales told by 10 lection of the very best of Russian poetry, from to Chaucer storytellers over 5 days. • “With stories marked the late eighteenth century to the modern day. • Edited with an Introduction by Laura Ashe • by vertiginous fantasy, spirited wit, and “A lucky find for Slavic scholars, English-speaking 978-0-14-139287-5 • $20.00 • Dec 2015 • A baroque excess, Basile redefined the fairy tale Russophiles, and poetry lovers of many stripes.”— new anthology exploring the reinvention of for European audiences. Nancy Canepa’s Russian Life fiction in the twelfth century, after an absence splendid…translation captures all the narrative of hundreds of years. energy and stylistic élan of The Tale of Sherlock Holmes: The Novels Tales.”—Maria Tatar, chair of the Program in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Introduction by Emma: 200th-Anniversary Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University and translator/editor of The Turnip Princess Michael Dirda • 978-0-14-310713-2 • $25.00 • Annotated Edition Nov 2015 • All four of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Jane Austen • Edited with a New Introduction The Master and Margarita: legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a Graphic Deluxe edition. by Juliette Wells • 978-0-14-310771-2 • $17.00 • 50th-Anniversary Edition Sep 2015 • The culmination of Jane Austen’s genius, a sparkling comedy of love and Mikhail Bulgakov • Translated by Richard Pevear Middlemarch marriage—now in a Penguin Classics Deluxe and Larissa Volokhonsky • Foreword by Boris George Eliot • New Foreword by Rebecca Mead Edition with a cover designed by illustrator Fishman • 978-0-14-310827-6 • $16.00 • Feb • 978-0-14-310772-9 • $16.00 • Nov 2015 • Dadu Shin and notes drawing specially from 2016 • A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the George Eliot’s beloved masterpiece in a the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher College. 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a in a newly revised version of the acclaimed foreword by the author of the bestselling In the Heat of the Night: Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. • “One of memoir My Life in Middlemarch. the truly great Russian novels of [the twentieth] The Original Virgil Tibbs Novel century.”—The New York Times Book Review Shahnameh: John Ball • Foreword by John Ridley • 978-0-14-310774-3 • $15.00 • Dec 2015 • A The Bloody Chamber: The Persian Book of Kings 50th-anniversary edition of the classic mystery And Other Stories: Abolqasem Ferdowsi • Translated by Dick novel featuring African American police Davis • With a New Foreword by Azar Nafisi • detective Virgil Tibbs that inspired the 75th-Anniversary Edition 978-0-14-310832-0 • $25.00 • Mar 2016 • A Oscar-winning film starring Sidney Poitier. Angela Carter • Introduction by Kelly Link • newly revised and expanded version of the 978-0-14-310761-3 • $16.00 • May 2015 • For great national epic of Persia. • “Dick Davis [is] the 75th anniversary of Angela Carter’s birth, a our pre-eminent translator from the Persian… Deluxe Edition of the most celebrated book by Thanks to Davis’s magnificent translation, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman and Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh live again in other contemporary masters of supernatural English.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post I’m Sara Clemens, fiction. • “A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant…distinguished by bold, Manager, Penguin inflected language and ornate, indeed often Academic Marketing. bloody, imagery.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New You can contact me York Times Book Review with any questions or requests at sclemens@ PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP penguinrandomhouse.com Latin Literature POETRY Translated by Michael Grant • 978-0-14- Perchance to Dream: 139811-2 • $20.00 • Dec 2015 • A classic Selected Stories introduction to Latin literature, with Charles Beaumont • Foreword by Ray Dog Songs: Poems translations of the best passages from Virgil, Bradbury • Afterword by William Shatner • Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others. 978-0-14-310765-1 • $16.00 • Oct 2015 • A Mary Oliver • 978-0-14-312583-9 • $16.00 • selection of Charles Beaumont’s finest stories, Sep 2015 • Penguin • A collection of new and The Scarlet Letter including five stories that he later adapted for favorite poems, celebrating the dogs that have enriched the poet’s world. Nathaniel Hawthorne • New Introduction by Twilight Zone episodes. Robert Milder • New Foreword by Tom Felicity: Poems Perrotta • Notes by Thomas E. Connolly • Songs of a Dead Dreamer 978-0-14-310766-8 • $8.00 • Dec 2015 • The and Grimscribe Mary Oliver • 9781594206764 • $24.95 • Oct text of this edition, the result of exhaustive 2015 • Penguin • In this collection of new Thomas Ligotti • Foreword by Jeff Vander- examination of Hawthorne’s manuscript and poems, Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver meer • 978-0-14-310776-7 • $17.00 • Oct various other historical records, is approved by turns her eye from the grace of the natural 2015 • Two terrifying modern classics by a the Center for Scholarly Edition of the Modern world to the even more mysterious landscape cult horror favorite, in time for their 30th and Language Association. of the human heart. 25th anniversaries. • “The best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction.”—Washington The Road Not Taken: Les Misérables Post Book World Victor Hugo • Newly Translated with Notes by Finding America in the Poem Christine Donougher • Introduction by Robert The Case Against Satan Everyone Loves and Almost Tombs • 978-0-14-310756-9 • $25.00 • Mar 2016 Ray Russell • Foreword by Laird Barron • Everyone Gets Wrong • The first new Penguin Classics translation in 978-0-14-310727-9 • $15.00 • Oct 2015 • Ray forty years of Victor Hugo’s thrilling masterpiece. David Orr • 978-1-59420-583-5 • $25.95 • Aug Russell—praised by Stephen King and • “Donougher’s translation is a magnificent 2015 • Penguin • In this cultural “biography” of Guillermo del Toro as a sophisticated achievement. It reads easily, sometimes racily, Robert Frost’s beloved poem, Orr offers a look practitioner of Gothic fiction—resurrected and Hugo’s narrative power is never let down.” at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic exorcism with this classic 1962 horror novel. —William Doyle, Times Literary Supplement complexity, and its historical journey. • “David Orr has written the best popular explanation to The Origin Myth date of the most popular poem in American h i s t or y.” —New York Times Book Review of Acoma Pueblo Areopagitica Edward Proctor Hunt • Edited with an and Other Writings The Road Not Taken Introduction and Notes by Peter Nabokov • John Milton • 978-0-14-043906-9 • $16.00 • Jan and Other Poems Translated by Henry Wayne Hunt • 978-0-14- 2016 • A major new edition, this annotated Robert Frost • Edited with an Introduction by 310605-0 • $16.00 • Sep 2015 • A newly edited book is an authoritative edition of Milton’s David Orr • 978-0-14-310739-2 • $15.00 • Aug version of a masterpiece of American Indian major prose works, including Of Education, The 2015 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • mythology with re-inserted material. Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, and the Frost’s most-beloved early poems, selected by Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 award-winning poet David Orr as a companion A Portrait of the Artist as a polemical tract opposing licensing and to The Road Not Taken (Penguin Press) in time censorship, Areopagitica. Young Man: Centennial Edition for the centennial of “The Road Not Taken.” James Joyce • New Introduction by Karl Ove Knausgaard • New Notes by Seamus Deane • Pal Joey: The Novel and It Shouldn’t Have Illustrated by Roman Muradov • 978-0-14- The Libretto and Lyrics Been Beautiful 310824-5 • $16.00 • May 2016 • For the John O’Hara • Foreword by Thomas Mallon • Lia Purpura • 978-0-14-312690-4 • $20.00 • centennial of its original publication, a Deluxe 978-0-14-310775-0 • $16.00 • Nov 2015 • For Sep 2015 • Penguin • A collection of short Edition of one of Joyce’s greatest works. its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra’s poems, arranged by the four seasons, that deal centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that with themes of time and memory, The Story of Hong Gildong inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit metamorphosis and indeterminacy, as reflected Broadway musical, and featuring the musical’s Newly Translated by Minsoo Kang • 978-0-14- in both the natural and the human worlds. 310769-9 • $15.00 • Mar 2016 • The first modern libretto and lyrics. • “[O’Hara] was as acute a translation of the quintessential Korean classic: social observer as Fitzgerald, as spare a stylist the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins as Hemingway.”—Los Angeles Times a group of robber bandits and becomes a king. The Mysteries of Paris Billy Budd, Bartleby, Eugene Sue • Translated by Carolyn Betensky and Other Stories and Jonathan Loesberg • Foreword by Peter Herman Melville • Introduction by Peter M. Brooks • 978-0-14-310712-5 • $30.00 • Dec 2015 Coviello • 978-0-14-310760-6 • $11.00 • Feb • The first new translation in over a century of the 2016 • A new Penguin Classics black spine brilliant epic novel that inspired Les Misérables. edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty.
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