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A Room with a View Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Malcolm Bradbury Lucy Honeychurch is torn between the expectations of her world and the passionate yearnings of her heart. Within this sparkling love story, Forster has couched a perceptive examination of class structure and a penetrating social comedy. 256 pp. 978-0-14-118329-9 $9.95 Penguin Readers Guide Available Selected Stories Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell The twelve stories in this collection are rich in irony and often feature violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings that throw the characters’ perceptions and beliefs off balance. Included are “The Story of a Panic,” “The Machine Stops,” “The Eternal Moment,” and others. 224 pp. 978-0-14-118619-1 $14.00 Where Angels Fear to Tread Edited with Notes by Oliver Stallybrass Introduction by Ruth Padel A wonderful novel of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family’s encounter with seemingly otherworldly Italy. 192 pp. 978-0-14-144145-0 $13.00 hannah Webster Foster 1758 – 1840, american See William Hill Brown. 92 Penguin ClassiCs anatole FranCe 1844 – 1924, French nobel Prize winner The Gods Will Have Blood Translated with an Introduction by Frederick Davies Set during the French Revolution in the fifteen months preceding the fall of Robespierre, this novel by Nobel Prize winner Anatole France powerfully recreates the Terror—a period of intense and virtually indiscriminate violence. 256 pp. 978-0-14-044352-3 $14.00 benjaMin Franklin 1706 – 1790, american The Autobiography and Other Writings Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth A. Silverman Tracing his rise from a printer’s apprentice to an internationally famous scientist, inventor, statesman, legislator, and diplomat, Franklin distills the complex and passionate intellectual strivings of his life into a persona-extolling industry and sober virtue. Also included here are selections from Franklin’s essays and letters. 320 pp. 978-0-14-243760-5 $9.00 See The Portable Enlightenment Reader.

The Portable Benjamin Franklin Edited with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff As well as the Autobiography, The Portable Benjamin Franklin contains some one hundred of Franklin’s major writings— from essays and journalism, to letters and scientific observations. 576 pp. 978-0-14-303954-9 $17.00 Miles Franklin 1879 – 1954, australian My Brilliant Career Introduction by Sandra Gilbert Miles Franklin’s thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death. 272 pp. 978-0-14-310505-3 $15.00 jaMes Frazer 1854 – 1941, scottish The Golden Bough Abridged Edition Introduction by George W. Stocking, Jr. A monumental study of magic, folklore, and religion, The Golden Bough draws on the myths, rites and rituals, totems and taboos, and customs of ancient European civilizations and primitive cultures throughout the world. Frazer’s ideas had a far-reaching impact on the course of modern anthropology, philosophy, and psychology, and on the writing of literary figures such as D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. 944 pp. 978-0-14-018931-5 $17.00 “Perhaps no book has had so decisive an effect upon modern literature.” —l i o n e l trilling harold FrederiC 1856 – 1898, american The Damnation of Theron Ware Introduction by Scott Donaldson A candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature. 512 pp. 978-0-14-039025-4 $18.00 Mary e. Wilkins FreeMan 1852 – 1930, american A New England Nun and Other Stories Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra A. Zagarell “Regionalist” writer Freeman began her career when writing was becoming the first culture industry and her work appeared in many popular magazines. This collection showcases her many modes—romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic—as well as her use of humor and irony and comprises fifteen stories and the novella The Jamesons. 320 pp. 978-0-14-043739-3 $15.00 P e n g u i n C l a s s i C s 93

The Portable Benjamin Franklin<br />

Edited with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff<br />

As well as the Autobiography, The Portable<br />

Benjamin Franklin contains some one<br />

hundred of Franklin’s major writings—<br />

from essays and journalism, to letters and<br />

scientific observations.<br />

576 pp. 978-0-14-303954-9 $17.00<br />

Miles Franklin<br />

1879 – 1954, australian<br />

My Brilliant Career<br />

Introduction by Sandra Gilbert<br />

Miles Franklin’s thinly veiled<br />

autobiographical novel about a young<br />

girl hungering for life and love in the<br />

outback so scandalized her country upon<br />

its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it<br />

not be published again until ten years after<br />

her death.<br />

272 pp. 978-0-14-310505-3 $15.00<br />

jaMes Frazer<br />

1854 – 1941, scottish<br />

The Golden Bough<br />

Abridged Edition<br />

Introduction by George W. Stocking, Jr.<br />

A monumental study of magic, folklore,<br />

and religion, The Golden Bough draws on<br />

the myths, rites and rituals, totems and<br />

taboos, and customs of ancient European<br />

civilizations and primitive cultures<br />

throughout the world. Frazer’s ideas had<br />

a far-reaching impact on the course of<br />

modern anthropology, philosophy, and<br />

psychology, and on the writing of literary<br />

figures such as D. H. Lawrence, Ezra<br />

Pound, and T. S. Eliot.<br />

944 pp. 978-0-14-018931-5 $17.00<br />

“Perhaps no book has had so decisive an<br />

effect upon modern literature.”<br />

—l i o n e l trilling<br />

harold FrederiC<br />

1856 – 1898, american<br />

The Damnation of Theron Ware<br />

Introduction by Scott Donaldson<br />

A candid inquiry into the intertwining of<br />

religious and sexual fervor, and a telling<br />

portrait of the United States at the end<br />

of the nineteenth century, this novel<br />

foreshadows the rise of naturalism in<br />

American literature.<br />

512 pp. 978-0-14-039025-4 $18.00<br />

Mary e. Wilkins<br />

FreeMan<br />

1852 – 1930, american<br />

A New England Nun and Other Stories<br />

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by<br />

Sandra A. Zagarell<br />

“Regionalist” writer Freeman began her<br />

career when writing was becoming the first<br />

culture industry and her work appeared in<br />

many popular magazines. This collection<br />

showcases her many modes—romantic,<br />

gothic, and psychologically symbolic—as<br />

well as her use of humor and irony and<br />

comprises fifteen stories and the novella<br />

The Jamesons.<br />

320 pp. 978-0-14-043739-3 $15.00<br />

P e n g u i n C l a s s i C s 93

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