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LiteratureBOOKS DUE: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL 2014 • VOLUME 24, NUMBER 1

SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICAAn Anthology from the Revolution to NowEdited by James ShapiroForeword by Bill ClintonThis groundbreaking anthology recaptures the fascinating story of America’s passionate engagement with Shakespeare, showing his works to be a prism through which crucial issues—revolution, slavery, war, social jus-tice—were refracted and understood.A Library of America hardcoverApril • 672 pp. • 978-1-59853-295-1 • $29.95

CLOTEL & OTHER WRITINGSWILLIAM WELLS BROWNEdited by Ezra GreenspanBorn a slave, Brown refashioned himself as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then authored a series of landmark works—includ-ing Clotel, the first novel by an African Ameri-can—that made him a foundational figure of African American literature. A Library of America hardcoverJanuary • 912 pp. • 978-1-59853-291-3 • $35.00

ON READING THE GRAPES OF WRATHSUSAN SHILLINGLAWToday’s foremost Steinbeck scholar delves into the American classic to explore its cultural, social, political, scientific, and creative impact upon first publication, as well as its enduring legacy.A Penguin paperback originalApril • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-312550-1 • $13.00

THE TIME REGULATION INSTITUTEAHMET HAMDI TANPINARTranslated by Maureen Freely and Alexander DaweIntroduction by Pankaj Mishra“Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey’s attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifica-tions.”—Orhan Pamuk, author of Snow.A Penguin Classics paperbackJanuary • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-310673-9 • $16.00

THE PROPHECIESA Dual-Language Edition with Parallel TextNOSTRADAMUSTranslated with an Introduction and Notes by Richard SieburthHistorical Introduction and Supplementary Material by Stéphane Gerson“Sieburth’s glittering translation rescues one of the world’s most arcane texts from the realm of hearsay, and renders its strange poetry pal-pable and moving.”—John Ashbery.A Penguin Classics paperbackJanuary • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-310723-1 • $18.00

P. G. WodehouseKID BRADY STORIES AND

A MAN OF MEANS April • 208 pp. • 978-1-4683-0833-4 • $19.95

THE SWOOP! AND THE MILITARY INVASION

OF AMERICAApril • 144 pp. • 978-1-4683-0834-1 • $19.95

Georges Simenon

Penguin Paperbacks •$10.00

PIETR THE LATVIANTranslated by David Bellos

January • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-139273-8

THE LATE MONSIEUR GALLETTranslated by Anthea Bell

January • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-139337-7

THE HANGED MAN OF SAINT-PHOLIEN

Translated by Linda CoverdaleMarch • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-139345-2

THE CARTER OF “LA PROVIDENCE”

Translated by David CowardMarch • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-139346-9

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THE LITTLE DEMONFYODOR SOLOGUBTranslated by Ronald WilksIntroduction by Pamela DavidsonThis grotesque mirror of a spiritually bankrupt society is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement.A Penguin Classics paperbackJanuary • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-139293-6 • $17.00

THE BIRD’S NESTSHIRLEY JACKSONForeword by Kevin WilsonElizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old whiling her life away at a dull museum job—until it is revealed that she is not just one girl, but four separate, self-destructive personalities.A Penguin Classics paperbackFebruary • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-310703-3 • $16.00

THE SUNDIALSHIRLEY JACKSONForeword by Victor LaValleWhen the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, they find themselves engulfed in growing madness, fear, and vio-lence as they prepare for a terrible new world.A Penguin Classics paperbackFebruary • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-310706-4 • $16.00

LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURESSelected Prose WritingsRICHARD JEFFERIESEdited with an Introduction by Richard MabeyTrekking across the English countryside in the 19th century, the father of English nature writing recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an owl’s feather to the grinding hardship of rural labor.A Penguin Classics paperbackFebruary • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-139289-9 • $17.00

THE RISE OF ROMEPLUTARCHTranslated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Christopher Pelling, and Jeffrey Tatum Introduction by Jeffrey TatumBrings together Plutarch’s Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and his comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts.A Penguin Classics paperbackJanuary • 832 pp. • 978-0-14-0449754 • $16.00

NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVEFREDERICK DOUGLASSEdited with an Introduction by Ira DworkinIn addition to the classic autobiography, this new edition also includes his most famous speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” as well as his only known work of fic-tion, The Heroic Slave.A Penguin Classics paperback February • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-310730-9 • $13.00

ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALSFRIEDRICH NIETZSCHETranslated by Michael A. ScarpittiIntroduction and Notes by Robert C. HolubA lapidary new translation of the book in which Nietzsche elucidates the cryptic apho-risms of Beyond Good and Evil, offering a coher-ent discussion of morality that is more acces-sible than his previous writings.A Penguin Classics paperbackFebruary • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-119537-7 • $15.00

BARLAAM AND JOSAPHATA Christian Tale of the BuddhaGUI DE CAMBRAITranslated by Peggy McCrackenIntroduction by Donald S. Lopez Jr.A new translation—the only modern English one available—of the most popular Christian tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the story of the Buddha. A Penguin Classics paperbackMarch • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-310701-9 • $16.00

THE CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURYALFRED DE MUSSETTranslated with an Introduction and Notes by David CowardA passionate account of a young man’s rite of passage, inspired by its author’s scandalous real-life affair with the novelist George Sand.A Penguin Classics paperbackMarch • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-139185-4 • $17.00

THE TALE OF THE HEIKETranslated by Royall TylerIllustrated by Teisai HokubaJapan’s Iliad—a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. No work has had a greater impact on later Japanese literature, theater, music, film, and manga—indeed on the Japanese people’s sense of their own past. 55 illustrations.A Penguin Classics paperbackApril • 784 pp. • 978-0-14-310726-2 • $30.00

THE DIVINE COMEDYInferno, Purgatorio, ParadisoDANTE ALIGHIERITranslated with an Introduction and Notes by Robin KirkpatrickThe acclaimed translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, now in a one-volume edition.A Penguin Classics paperbackMarch • 736 pp. • 978-0-14-119749-4 • $26.00

THE DARK EIDOLON AND OTHER FANTASIESCLARK ASHTON SMITHEdited with an Introduction and Notes by S. T. Joshi“Take one step across the threshold of his sto-ries and you plunge into color, sounds, taste, smell, and texture: into language.”—Ray Brad-bury. “One of the most uninfluenced and origi-nal writers I know of.”—Fritz Lieber.A Penguin Classics paperbackApril • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-310738-5 • $16.00

THE GRAPES OF WRATH75th Anniversary EditionJOHN STEINBECKA special facsimile edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning epic of the Dust Bowl migra-tion, in which Steinbeck “shaped a geography of conscience” where “there is something at stake in every sentence.”—Don DeLillo.A Viking hardcoverApril • 496 pp. • 978-0-670-01690-7 • $30.00

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ANOTHER REASONCARL DENNISAs the Pulitzer Prize winner asserts and ques-tions his own authority, encountering a wide range of competing claims from other voices, we find ourselves included in a conversation that deepens our notion of the human community.A Penguin Poets paperback originalApril • 96 pp. • 978-0-14-312522-8 • $18.00

SELECTED POEMSVLADISLAV KHODASEVICHTranslated from the Russian by Peter Daniels Introduction by Michael Wachtel“One of the great undiscovered poets of the twentieth century. His verse is inventive, sharp and sensuous, full of the pain of exile yet suffused with hope and belief in the redemptive power of poetry.”—Martin Six-smith. Presented in dual language.An Overlook hardcoverJanuary • 192 pp. • 978-1-4683-0810-5 • $27.95

HAIKU LOVEEdited by Alan CummingsPoems from the 1600s to the present day are beautifully illustrated with images from the unrivaled collection of Japanese paintings and prints in the British Museum. 50 color illustrations.An Overlook hardcoverJanuary • 96 pp. • 978-1-4683-0860-0 • $15.95

THE ESSENTIAL HITS OF SHORTY BON BONWILLIE PERDOMOThrough dream song and elegy, the prize-win-ning poet’s third collection crackles with vital-ity and dynamism as it imagines the life of a percussionist, rebuilding the landscape of his apprenticeship, love, diaspora, and death.A Penguin Poets paperback originalApril • 96 pp. • 978-0-14-312523-5 • $18.00

ROGET’S ILLUSIONLINDA BIERDS“Her poems, with their constantly surprising delicacy and their language rich with insight and a sensuous music, radiate real power and authority and animal presence.”—W. S. Mer-win, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010–2011.A Putnam hardcoverMarch • 192 pp. • 978-0-399-16546-7 • $27.95

LETTERS TO A YOUNG POETRAINER MARIA RILKETranslated by Charlie LouthIntroduction by Lewis HydeWritten with honesty, elegance, and a deep understanding of the loneliness that often comes with being an artist, these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for generations of writers and art-ists of all kinds.A Penguin Classics paperbackApril • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-119232-1 • $14.00

THE ANALECTSCONFUCIUSEdited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Annping ChinThis new translation, by one of the preeminent scholars of Confucius, draws on the most recent excavated texts and latest research, bringing us as close as possible to experiencing Confucius as his followers might have 2,500 years ago.A Penguin Classics paperbackApril • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-310685-2 • $16.00

WITHOUT A DOWRY AND OTHER PLAYSALEXANDER OSTROVSKYCollects four of the 19th-century Russian playwright’s key plays, each from a different decade—A Profitable Position, An Ardent Heart, Without a Dowry, and Talents and Admirers.An Overlook paperback originalJanuary • 272 pp. • 978-1-46830-858-7 • $21.95

Bernard MalmudEdited by Philip Davis

Library of America Hardcovers$35.00

“Read now, you see that Malamud has more than a little in common with

Beckett—the eerie clowning, the magic barrel of unadorned prose, the haunting melancholy of stories about things you

can’t get past.’”—Philip Roth.

NOVELS AND STORIES OF THE 1940S & 50S

Features The Natural (1952) and the National Book Award–winning The

Assistant (1957).March • 800 pp. • 978-1-59853-292-0

NOVELS AND STORIES OF THE 1960S

Features three novels of the 1960s: A New Life (1961), The Fixer (1966), and

the novel-in-stories Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969).

March • 992 pp. • 978-1-59853-293-7

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Q: THE GREEK COFFIN MYSTERY

ELLERY QUEEN 384 pp. • 978-0-14-312514-3 • $23.00

R: HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES SALMAN RUSHDIE

224 pp. • 978-0-14-312477-1 • $22.00

S: CANNERY ROW JOHN STEINBECK

224 pp. • 978-0-14-312521-1 • $22.00

T: THE JOY LUCK CLUB AMY TAN

352 pp. • 978-0-14-312484-9 • $23.00