P E N G U I N G R O U P ( U S A ) new books for course use & adoption fall • winter 2008 PENGUIN CLASSICS The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dharma Bums and Other Jazz Age Stories Jack Kerouac • 978-0-14-303690-0 • $15.00 F. Scott Fitzgerald • Edited with an Intro & Notes • Sep 2008. Bhagavad Gita by Patrick O’Donnell • Includes The Diamond as Anonymous • New Translation by Laurie Patton Big as the Ritz • 978-0-14-310549-7 • $13.00 Lady Chatterley’s Lover • 978-0-14-0447903-0 • $12.00 • Nov 2008. • Sep 2008. D. H. Lawrence • New Intro by Doris Lessing • Edited with Notes by Michael Squires The Egyptian Book of the Dead Cold Comfort Farm • 978-0-14-144149-8 • $12.00 • Dec 2008. Anonymous • Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge Stella Gibbons • New Intro by Lynn Truss • Edited with Intro & Notes by Egyptologist John • 978-0-14-144159-7 • $15.00 • New to Penguin The Snow Leopard Romer • 978-0-14-045550-2 • $18.00 • Penguin Classics • Sep 2008. Peter Matthiessen • Intro by Pico Iyer Classics Deluxe • Dec 2008. • 978-0-14-310551-0 • $15.00 • Oct 2008 The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan • National Book Award Winner. Henderson the Rain King W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan • Intro by Mike Saul Bellow • Intro by Dave Eggers Leigh • Edited with Notes by Ed Glinert The Book of Contemplation: • 978-0-14-044790-3 • $15.00 • Oct 2008. • 978-0-14-144129-0 • $18.00 • New to Penguin Islam and the Crusades Classics • Dec 2008. Ibn Jubayr, Usama ibn Munqidh • Notes by Paul Humboldt’s Gift Cobb • 978-0-14-045513-7 • $15.00 • New to Saul Bellow • Intro by Jeffrey Eugenides Honorary Consul Penguin Classics • Oct 2008 • New translation • 978-0-14-044790-3 • $16.00 • Nov 2008 Graham Greene • Intro by Mark Bosco from the Medieval Muslim perspective. • Winner of 1975 Pulitzer Prize. • 978-0-14-310555-8 • $14.00 • New to Penguin Classics • Oct 2008. Timaeus and Critias The Life of Samuel Johnson Plato • Translated by Desmond Lee • Intro & James Boswell • Edited with an Intro by David Monsignor Quixote Notes by Thomas Kjeller Johansen Womersley • 978-0-14-043662-4 • $20.00 • Dec Graham Greene • Intro by John Auchard • 978-0-14-144149-8 • $12.00 • Dec 2008. 2008 • A landmark in Boswell, Johnson studies; • 978-0-14-310552-7 • $14.00 • New to Penguin the most complete edition ever published. Classics • Oct 2008 • Graham’s last religious novel. Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin • Translated with Intro & The Financier The Human Factor Notes by Stanley Mitchell • 978-0-14-044810-8 Theodore Dreiser • Intro by Larzer Ziff Graham Greene • Intro by Colin Tóbín • $14.00 • Nov 2008. • 978-0-14-310554-1 • $16.00 • New to Penguin • 978-0-14-310556-5 • $14.00 • New to Penguin Classics • Dec 2008. Classics • Oct 2008. Confessions Saint Augustine • Translated by Garry Wills Two Lives of Charlemagne On the Road: The Original Scroll • 978-0-14-310570-1 • $16.00 • New to Penguin Einhard, Notker the Stammerer • Translated & Jack Kerouac • Edited by Howard Cunnell, with Classics • Sep 2008. Edited with an Intro & Notes by David Gantz; Intros by Howard Cunnell, Joshua Kupetz, Maps, Further Reading, Family Trees & Chronol- George Mouratidis, & Penny Vlagopoulos The Stone Diaries ogy • 978-0-14-045505-2 • $15.00 • Oct 2008 • 978-0-14-310546-61 • $16.00 • New to Penguin Carol Shields • Intro by Penelope Lively Classics • Sep 2008 • Legendary first draft, word • 978-0-14-310550-3 • $16.00 • Penguin Classics Discourses and Selected Writing for word as typed in 1951 including music notes. Deluxe Edition • Oct 2008 • 1995 Pulitzer Prize Epicetetus • Edited & Translated with an Intro & Winner. Notes by Robert Dobbin • 978-0-14-044946-4 • $16.00 • Dec 2008. PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Book of Mormon POETRY The Little Book Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr.; Intro by Laurie Selden Edwards • 978-0-525-95061-5 • $25.95 F. Maffly-Kipp • 978-0-14-310553-4 • $15.00 • HC • Aug 2008 • Story of a displaced 20th- • New to Penguin Classics • Sep 2008. James Agee: Selected Poems century man in turn-of-the-century Vienna Edited by Andrew Hudgins • 978-1-59853-032-2 • “Richly inventive...superbly humane and Cup of Gold: • $20.00 • PB • Oct 2008 • From Library of readable.”—Richard Ford. A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, America’s American Poets Project. with Occasional Reference to History Snapshots John Steinbeck • Intro by Susan Beegel Flight: New & Selected Poems Michal Govrin • 978-1-59448-334-9 • $15.00 • 978-0-14-303945-7 • $14.00 • Sep 2008 Linda Bierds • 9780-399-15525-3 • $24.95 • HC • PB • Oct 2008 • From one of Israel’s most • Steinbeck’s first novel and sole work of • Oct 2008 • Combines 15 new poems and celebrated writers, a novel that examines the historical fiction. selected poems from the authors first seven state of Israel and the relationship of Arabs and volumes. Israelis • “A symposium on Jewish history and The Winter of Our Discontent the future of the state of Israel.”—The Forward. John Steinbeck • New Intro & Notes by Susan Men, Women, and Ghosts Shillinglaw • 978-0-14-303948-8 • $15.00 • Sep Debora Greger • 978-0-14-311444-4 • $18.00 The Lazarus Project 2008 • Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. • PB • Oct 2008 • “A true heir to Bishop.”—The Aleksander Hemon • Translated by Anthea Bell Yale Review . • 978-1-594-48988-4 • $24.95 • HC • May 2008 The Jewel of Seven Stars • “MacArthur genius Hemon...unpacks 100 Bram Stoker • Edited with Intro & Notes by Kate Strange Flesh years’ worth of immigrant disillusion, displace- Hebblethwaite • 978-0-14-144221-1 • $15.00 William Logan • 978-0-14-311446-8 • $18.00 ment and desperation...piercing wit...pathos and • New to Penguin Classics • Oct 2008. • PB • Oct 2008 • “Logan writes like an angel.” outrage enough to chip away at the hardest of —Donald Hall, The Iowa Review. hearts.”—Publishers Weekly. Yevtushenko: Selected Poems Yevgeny Yevtushenko • Translated by Robin The Dharma Bums: Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi • Intro by Robin 50th Anniversary Edition Milner-Gulland • 978-0-14-042477-5 • $14.00 WORLD LITERATURE Jack Kerouac • Intro by Ann Douglas • New to Penguin Classics • Sep 2008. / criTicisM • 978-0-670-01993-9 • $24.95 • HC • Sep 2008. Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha Secret Scripture Jack Kerouac • Intro by Ann Douglas signeT classic Sebastian Barry • 978-0-670-01940-3 • $24.95 • 978-0-670-01957-1 • $24.95 • HC • Sep 2008. • HC • June 2008 • “Glows with uncanny luminosity of a twisted fairy tale...with its Disquiet Ten Plays emphasis on a feminine version of history...it Julia Leigh • 978-0-14-311350-8 • $13.00 • PB Euripides • Revised with a translation by Paul adds a stirring indictment of Ireland’s patriar- • Dec 2008 • Haunting family reunion • Don Roche • 978-0-451-52700-4 • $7.95 • Sep 2008. chal attitudes.”—Irish Times. DeLillo called her previous work “strong and hypnotic.” Billy Budd and Other Tales Who The Hell Is Pansy O’Hara?: Herman Melville • Revised with an introduction The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On by Joyce Carol Oates • 978-0-451-53081-3 of the World’s Best-Loved Books The Road (They’re Not What You Think) • $4.95 • Sep 2008. Jenny Bond & Christ Sheedy • 978-0-14-311364-5 John Leland • 978-0-14-311437-6 • $15.00 • PB • $13.00 • PB • Aug 2008. • Sep 2008 • Fun-to-read critical appraisal of the Frankenstein, Dracula, classic novel. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The China Lover Edgar Allen Poe • Revised with an introduction Ian Buruma • 978-1-59420-194-3 • $26.95 Strawberry Fields by Stephen King • 978-0-451-52363-1 • $7.95 • HC • Sep 2008 • From Professor of Human Marina Lewycka • 978-0-14311355-3 • $14.00 • October 2008. Rights & Journalism, Bard College, comes an • PB • May 2008 • From the acclaimed author of extraordinary blend of historical facts and artistic A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian • “Zings The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe imagination; the portrait of a woman and a with zest for life...shrewd, and winningly perceptive Edgar Allen Poe • Introduction by Jay Parini and nation burying the past to transform the future. about the wounds inflicted by prejudice and an Afterword by April Bernard injustice.”—The Sunday Times (London). • 978-0-451-53105-6 • $4.95 • October 2008. The Tåin Translated by Ciaran Carson • 978-0-670-01868-6 The Chess Machine The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde • $24.95 • HC • Feb 2008 • Major new translation Robert Löhr • Translated by Anthea Bell Oscar Wilde • Introduction and Afterword by by award-winning Irish poet of Ireland’s greatest • 978-0-14-3113436-9 • $15.00 • PB • Oct 2008 Jack Zipes with Original illustrations epic tale; has been called “the Irish Aeneid.” • “Historical fiction at its best”—Constant Reader. • 978-0-451-53107-0 • $5.95 • October 2008. Diary of a Bad Year Salt J.M. Coetzee • 978-0-14-311448-2 • $14.00 • PB Jeremy Page • 978-0-14-311412-3 • $15.00 • PB • Nov 2008 • Brilliant new work of fiction from • Sep 2008 • An exciting new voice. the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace. Frida’s Bed Slavenka Draculic • 978-0-14-311415-1 • $13.00 • PB • Sep 2008 • Unique meditation on the nature of pain and creativity. PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 2 The Sacred Book of the Werewolf God Is Dead More Than It Hurts You Victor Pelevin • 978-0-670-01994-6 • $25.95 Ron Currie, Jr.