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CONTENTS
PENGUIN CLASSICS 1
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SUBJECT CATEGORIES 271
READERS GUIDES 298
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 300
NEW TITLES FOR 2008 301
AUTHORS BY REGION 302
TITLE INDEX 312
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and/orhasadditionalandenhancedapparatus
EDWIN A. ABBOTT HENRY ADAMS
1838–1926,English 1838–1918,American
Flatland Mont-Saint-MichelandChartres
ARomanceofManyDimensions IntroductionbyRaymondCarney
IntroductionbyAlanLightman Aphilosophicalandhistoricalmeditation
Abbott’sdelightfulmathematicalfantasy onthehumancondition,Adams’sjourney
aboutlifeinatwo-dimensionalworld intothemedievalconsciousnesssynthesizes
brilliantlysatirizesVictorianBritishsociety. literature,art,politics,science,and
128pp. 978-0-14-043531-3 $10.00 psychology.
448pp. 978-0-14-039054-5 $16.00
PETER ABÉLARD
1079–c.1144,French
JOHN ADAMS
HÉLOÏSE
1735–1826,American
c.1098–1164,French
TheLettersofAbélardandHéloïse
TranslatedwithanIntroductionandNotes
byBettyRadice
RevisedbyM.T.Clanchy
Thiscollectionofwritingsoffersinsight
intothemindsoftwoprominentChristian
medievalfigures—theFrenchscholastic
philosopherPeterAbélardandhisbeloved
Héloïse,whobecamealearnedabbess—
andtheircelebratedbuttragicloveaffair.
384pp. 978-0-14-044899-3 $15.00
ThePortableJohnAdams
ANDY ADAMS EditedwithanIntroductionby
1859–1935,American JohnPatrickDiggins
AdamsbiographerJohnPatrickDiggins
TheLogofaCowboy
gathersanimpressivevarietyofhis
EditedwithanIntroductionandNotesby worksinthiscompactoriginalvolume,
RichardW.Etulian includingpartsofhisdiary,autobiography,
Straightforwardlytold,richindetail,and correspondenceandhismostimportant
lacedwithappealingcampfirehumor, politicalworks:ADissertationonCanon
AndyAdams’srealisticnovelisaclassic andFeudalLaw,“ThoughtsonGovernment,”
portrayalofthewesterncattlecountry. ADefenceontheConstitutionsofthe
384pp. 978-0-14-303968-6 $15.00 UnitedStatesofAmerica,Novanglus,and
DiscoursesonDavila.
640pp. 978-0-14-243778-0 $18.00
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JOHN ADAMS AESCHYLUS
1735–1826,American 525–456B.C.,Greek
ABIGAIL ADAMS
1744–1818,American
TheOresteia
Agamemnon/TheLibationBearers/
TheEumenides
TheLettersofJohnand
TranslatedbyRobertFagleswithan
AbigailAdams
Introduction,Notes,andGlossaryby
EditedwithanIntroductionand RobertFaglesandW.B.Stanford
NotesbyFrankShuffelton TheOresteia—theonlytrilogyinGreek
ThemarriageofJohnandAbigailAdams dramathatsurvivesfromantiquity—
wasaninspiringconnectionofmindand takesonnewdepthandpowerin
spirit.Bothanintimateportraitofa Fagles’sacclaimedmoderntranslation.
colonialfamilyandahistoricalrecordof 336pp. 978-0-14-044333-2 $11.00
anemergingAmerica,theirlettersprovide
TheOresteianTrilogy
animportantrecordofAmericanlife
beforeandduringtheRevolution. TranslatedwithanIntroductionby
PhilipVellacott
416pp. 978-0-14-243711-7 $16.00
Justice,vengeance,andtheforcesoffate
providethethemesforAgamemnon,The
ADOMNÁN OF IONA
Choephori,andTheEumenides.Vellacott’s
c.628–704,Irish versetranslationispresentedwithashort
introductiontoGreekmythologyand
LifeofSt.Columba
thehistoricalcontextofthetrilogy.
TranslatedwithanIntroductionby 208pp. 978-0-14-044067-6 $9.95
RichardSharpe
Thisbiography,writtenonehundredyears PrometheusBoundandOtherPlays
afterthedeathofSt.Columba(597)and TranslatedwithanIntroductionby
drawingonbothoralandwrittenmaterials, PhilipVellacott
presentsarichlydetailedportraitof
PrometheusBound,TheSuppliants,
religiouslifeinthesixthcentury.
SevenAgainstThebes,andThePersians,
432pp. 978-0-14-044462-9 $16.00
presentedhereinversetranslation,
demonstratethatreason,notviolence,is
theproperprincipleofcivilizedlife.
160pp. 978-0-14-044112-3 $11.00
SeeThePortableGreekReader.
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AESOP RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA
c.6thcent.B.C.,Greek 1892–1927,Japanese
TheCompleteFables
TranslatedbyOliviaandRobertTemple
withanIntroductionbyRobertTemple
Thisdefinitiveandfullyannotatedmodern
editionisthefirsttranslationevertomake
availablethecompletecorpusof358fables
attributedtoAesop.Revealingarawer,
racier,veryadultaesthetic,thisversion
includes100fablesnotpreviously
publishedinEnglish.
288pp. 978-0-14-044649-4 $11.00
SeeThePortableGreekReader. -
RashomonandSeventeen
OtherStories
ANNA AKHMATOVA
IntroductionbyHarukiMurakami
1889–1966,Russian
TranslatedwithNotesbyJayRubin
SelectedPoems CoverbyYoshihiroTatsumi
TranslatedwithanIntroductionby ThisbrilliantnewtranslationoftheJapan-
D.M.Thomas esemaster’sstories—halfofwhichappear
Akhmatova’spoemsbearwitnesstothe hereinEnglishforthefirsttime—ranges
terrorsofStalinism,thelossofallwhom fromthesourceforthemovieRasho-monto
sheloved,andtheblessingsofmemory. Akutagawa’slater,moreautobiographical
Theseoutstandingtranslationsbynovelist writings.
D.M.Thomasdohonortotheworks 320pp. 978-0-14-303984-6 $15.00
ofoneofthegreatestpoetsinmodern PenguinClassicsDeluxeEdition
history.
160pp. 978-0-14-042464-5 $15.00
SeeThePortableTwentieth-Century
RussianReader.
AESOP
Aesopwasprobablyaprisonerofwar,soldintoslaveryintheearlysixthcentury
B.C.ontheGreekislandofSamos,whorepresentedhismastersincourtandrelied
onanimalstoriestoputacrosshiskeypoints.However,theAesopknowntothe
ancientGreeksandRomanswasquitedifferentfromtheonegenerallyknownto
modernEnglishspeakers.Aswasthecustomwithtranslationsofancienttexts
fromtheeighteenthcenturythroughtheearlytwentiethcentury,editionsof
Aesop’sfableswereveryselectiveandexpungedofmaterialdeemedoffensive
toVictoriandecorum.Farfrombeingtheauthorofedifyingchildren’sstories,
therealAesopwasamanwhocloakedarathergrimyetpragmaticvisionof
humanlifeinthetalesofnature.
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HENRI ALAIN-FOURNIER LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
1886–1914,French 1404–1472,Italian
*TheLostEstate(LeGrandMeaulnes) OnPainting
TranslatedbyRobinBuss TranslatedbyCecilGraysonwithan
IntroductionandNotesbyMartinKemp
IntroductionbyAdamGopnik
Thefirstbookdevotedtotheintellectual
WhenMeaulnesfirstarrivesinSologne,his
rationaleforpainting,theprocessofvision,
charismacaptivateseveryone.Butwhenhe
paintingtechniques,andthemoraland
attendsastrangepartyatamysterious
artisticprerequisitesoftheartistremains
house,heischangedforever.Published
aclassicofarttheory.
hereinthefirstnewEnglishtranslation
112pp. 978-0-14-043331-9 $14.00
since1959,thisevocativenovelpresentsan
enduringportraitofdesperatefriendship SeeThePortableRenaissanceReader.
andvanishedadolescence.
256pp. 978-0-14-144189-4 $14.00 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
1832–1888,American
“Ifinditsdepictionofgoldentimeand
ThePortableLouisaMayAlcott
placejustaspoignantnow.”
EditedwithanIntroductionby
—NICKHORNBY ElizabethLennoxKeyser
Alcott’svastbodyofworkiscelebratedin
thiswide-rangingcollectionthatincludes
LEOPOLDO ALAS samplesfromhernovels,novellas,children’s
1852–1901,Spanish stories,sensationalistfiction,gothictales,
memoirs,letters,andjournals.
704pp. 978-0-14-027574-2 $18.00
TheInheritance
EditedwithanIntroductionby
JoelMyersonandDanielShealy
Inspiredbythesentimentalnovelsand
Gothicromancesofherday,Alcott’sfirst
novel,writtenwhenshewasseventeen,
isthecaptivatingtaleofayoungorphan
girlwhoseinheritanceisasecretlocked
inalong-lostletter.
208pp. 978-0-14-043666-2 $14.00
LaRegenta
PenguinReadersGuideAvailable
TranslatedwithanIntroduction
LittleWomen
byJohnRutherford
Anoutstandingworkofnineteenth- EditedwithanIntroductionby
ElaineShowalterandNotesby
centurySpanishliterature,thisnovelset
SiobhanKilfeatherandVincaShowalter
inaprovincialtownexploresanintelligent
woman’squestforfulfillmentthrough Alcott’sbelovedstoryoftheMarchgirls—
marriage,adultery,andreligion. Meg,Jo,Beth,andAmy—isaclassic
736pp. 978-0-14-044346-2 $17.00 Americanfeministnovel,reflectingthe
tensionbetweenculturalobligationand
artisticandpersonalfreedom.
544pp. 978-0-14-039069-8 $7.95
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Description:our founder Allen Lane's original ideal: to make the great books of all time available EDWIN A. ABBOTT of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow,.
