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She
Edited with an Introduction by
Patrick Brantlinger
“She” is Ayesha, the mysterious white
queen of a Central African Tribe—and
the goal of three English gentlemen, who
must face shipwreck, fever, and cannibals
in their quest to find her hidden realm.
She has enthralled the imaginations
of generations of readers who remain
fascinated by its representations of
dangerous women, adventuring men, and
unexplored Africa.
368 pp. 978-0-14-043763-8 $10.00
“Full of hidden meaning . . . the eternal
feminine, the immorality of our emotions.”
—sigMunD FReuD
riChard hakluyt
c. 1552 – 1616, english
Voyages and Discoveries
Edited and Abridged with an
Introduction by Jack Beeching
In this work of Hakluyt—a Renaissance
diplomat, scholar, and spy—lies the
beginnings of geography, economics,
ethnography, and the modern world itself.
448 pp. 978-0-14-043073-8 $16.00
alexander haMilton
See James Madison.
110 Penguin ClassiCs
knut haMsun
1859 – 1952, norwegian
nobel Prize winner
Growth of the Soil
Translated with Notes by Sverre Lyngstad
Introduction by Brad Leithauser
When it was first published in 1917,
Growth of the Soil was immediately
recognized as a masterpiece. Newly
translated by acclaimed Hamsun scholar
Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun’s novel is a
work of preternatural calm, stern beauty,
and biblical power—and the crowning
achievement of one of the greatest writers
of the twentieth century.
352 pp. 978-0-14-310510-7 $14.00
“an epic vision of peasant life in norway’s
backcountry . . . lyngstad, Hamsun’s heroic
translator, splendidly captures the author’s
voice as he guides his large cast into the
stresses of the modern age.”
—the new y o r k e r
knut haMsun
Knut Hamsun was born in 1859 to a poor peasant family in central Norway and
spent the early part of his life eking out a living through a series of low-wage jobs.
Based on his own experience as a struggling writer, Hamsun’s first novel, Hunger,
was an immediate critical success. Perhaps his best known work is Growth of the
Soil (1917), which earned him the Nobel Prize in 1920. After the Second World
War, as a result of his openly expressed Nazi sympathies during the German
occupation of Norway, Hamsun forfeited his considerable fortune to the state. He
died in poverty in 1952.