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LiteratureBOOKS DUE: MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2015 • VOLUME 25, NUMBER 2

THE BLOODY CHAMBERAnd Other Stories75th-Anniversary Edition ANGELA CARTERIntroduction by Kelly Link “She was, among other things, a quirky, origi-nal, and baroque stylist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber—her vocabu-lary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity.”—Margaret Atwood, The Observer.A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition paperbackJune • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-310761-3 • $16.00

THE ENCHANTED APRIL ELIZABETH VON ARNIMIntroduction by Brenda Bowen A bestseller upon its publication in 1922, this novel set off a craze for tourism to Portofino, Italy. With its four London women, one Italian castle, and month of unexpected transforma-tion, it is a witty and delightful depiction of what it is like to rediscover joy.A Penguin Classics paperback originalJune • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-310773-6 • $15.00

ROSS MACDONALD Four Novels of the 1950s Edited by Tom NolanFor his centennial year, The Library of America inaugurates its Macdonald edition with four novels from the 1950s, all featuring his incom-parable protagonist, private investigator Lew Archer.A Library of America hardcoverMay • 900 pp. • 978-1-59853-376-7 • $37.50

HERZOGSAUL BELLOWIntroduction by Philip Roth“Every single page of Herzog teems with jokes, apercus, deep-thinker riffs—little genius moves every other sentence. The impulse is to read the entire book out loud.”—Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex.A Penguin Classics paperback originalMay • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-310767-5 • $18.00

ANDERSONVILLE MacKINLAY KANTOR Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about the Civil War.A Plume paperbackJuly • 768 pp. • 978-0-14-751537-7 • $26.00

RAVELSTEINSAUL BELLOWIntroduction by Gary Shteyngart “Bellow proves that he still dominates....Ravel-stein is full of heart and wisdom, and I want to praise it without a pinch of qualification.”—Sven Birkerts, Esquire.A Penguin Classics paperback originalMay • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-310757-6 • $16.00

THE CENTURIONSJEAN LARTEGUYTranslated by Xan FieldingForeword by Robert D. Kaplan An extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency, and an intensely thrilling account of soldiers faced with chilling moral decisions on how to sur-vive in hostile environments, the cult military classic poses crucial questions about how we fight when “the age of heroics is over.”A Penguin Classics paperbackMay • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-310744-6 • $18.00

THE WORKS OF THE GAWAIN POETSir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, CleannessANONYMOUSEdited by Myra Stokes and Ad Putter The only available comprehensive, affordable volume of the works of the Gawain poet in their original Middle English, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars.A Penguin Classics paperback originalJuly • 1040 pp. • 978-0-14-042414-0 • $25.00

Deluxe Hardcover Classics

Covers by Coralie Bickford-Smith

THE JUNGLE BOOKS RUDYARD KIPLING

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kaori Nagai

June • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-139462-6 • $22.00

MADAME BOVARY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Wall

June • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-139467-1 • $23.00

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ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASSLEWIS CARROLLIntroduction by Charlie LovettIllustrated by John Tenniel “Wonderland and the world through the Look-ing Glass were, I always knew, different from other imagined worlds. Nothing could be changed, although things in the story were always changing....Carroll moves his readers as he moves chess pieces and playing cards.” —A. S. Byatt, author of Possession.A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition paperback originalJuly • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-310762-0 • $16.00

THE ALL-PERVADING MELODIOUS DRUMBEAT The Life of Ra Lotsawa RA YESHE SENGETranslated with an Introduction and Notes by Bryan J. Cuevas Translated here into English for the first time, this classic tells the story of magical exploits and miraculous achievements and features one of the most colorful, memorable figures in the history of Buddhism.A Penguin Classics paperback originalJuly • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-242261-8 • $18.00

THE LIFE AND PASSION OF WILLIAM OF NORWICH THOMAS OF MONMOUTHEdited with an Introduction by Miri Rubin This was the earliest version of the “blood libel,” a horrible myth of ritual murder which has haunted Europe ever since. Thomas of Monmouth’s chronicle of these events stands as a reminder of a terrible history of anti-Semitism in Europe which remains tragically alive today.A Penguin Classics paperbackAugust • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-119748-7 • $16.00

TESTAMENT OF YOUTHVERA BRITTAINPreface by Shirley WilliamsAcclaimed by The Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” this searing portrait of World War I is also a testament to every gen-eration irrevocably changed by war.A Penguin paperback originalMay • 672 pp. • 978-0-14-310838-2 • $18.00

THE ORIGIN MYTH OF ACOMA PUEBLO EDWARD PROCTOR HUNTIntroduction and Notes by Peter NabokovTranslated by Henry Wayne Wolf Robe Hunt The myth reveals how one of the world’s pre-modern societies made sense of itself to itself, answered key existential themes about the origins of life and death, and formed its cus-toms and codes of ethics and modes of social organization and self-governing.A Penguin Classics paperback originalAugust • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-310605-0 • $16.00

THE MASTER BUILDERand Other Plays HENRIK IBSEN Translated by Barbara Haveland and Anne-Marie Stanton-IfeIntroduction by Toril Moi This volume includes Ibsen’s last four plays, written soon after his return to Oslo, in the midst of an explosion of popularity across the continent for the now aged playwright.A Penguin Classics paperbackAugust • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-119459-2 • $14.00

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKYTranslated with an Introduction and Notes by Oliver Ready “This vivid, stylish and rich rendition by Oliver Ready compels the attention of the reader in a way that none of the others I’ve read comes close to matching. Using a clear and forceful mid-20th-century idiom, Ready gives us an entirely new kind of access to Dostoyevsky’s singular, self-reflexive and at times unnerv-ingly comic text.”—John Gray, New Statesman, “Books of the Year.”A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition paperback originalJuly • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-310763-7 • $20.00

Literature

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners

Fiction

HELEN OYEYEMIBOY, SNOW, BIRD

Riverhead Paperback • 978-1-59463-340-9

History

MARK HARRISFIVE CAME BACK

A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

Penguin Paperback • 978-0-14-312683-6

ADAM TOOZETHE DELUGE

The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

Viking Hardcover • 978-0-670-02492-6

Biography

STEPHEN KOTKINSTALIN

Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Penguin Press Hardcover • 978-1-59420-379-4

ANDREW ROBERTSNAPOLEON: A LIFE

Viking Hardcover • 978-0-670-02532-9

Entertainment Weekly 10 Best Fiction Books

of 2014

PHIL KLAY REDEPLOYMENT

Penguin Paperback • 978-0-14-312682-9

SARAH WATERSTHE PAYING GUESTS

Riverhead Paperback • 978-1-59463-311-9

CELESTE NGEVERYTHING I

NEVER TOLD YOUPenguin Paperback • 978-0-14-312755-0

2014 Booklist Top 10 Women’s Fiction

LIANE MORIARTYBIG LITTLE LIES

Putnam Hardcover • 978-0-399-16706-5

JOJO MOYESONE PLUS ONE

Penguin Paperback • 978-0-14-312750-5