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hildegard oF bingen
1089 – 1179, german
Selected Writings
Translated with an Introduction by
Mark Atherton
Hildegard, the “Sybil of the Rhine,” was
a Benedictine nun and one of the most
prolific and original women writers of the
Middle Ages. This volume brings together
writings that show her to be a visionary,
a wide-ranging thinker, and an early
proponent of a holistic approach to life.
320 pp. 978-0-14-043604-4 $15.00
See Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality.
s. e. hinton
b.1948, american
The Outsiders
Introduction by Jodi Picoult
First published in 1967, S. E. Hinton’s
novel was an immediate phenomenon.
With more than eight million copies
sold and now available with a perceptive
introduction by Jodi Picoult, The
Outsiders continues to resonate with
its powerful portrait of the bonds and
boundaries of friendship.
160 pp. 978-0-14-303985-3 $13.00
thoMas hobbes
1588 – 1679, english
Leviathan
Edited with an Introduction by
C. B. Macpherson
Written amid the turmoil of the English
civil war, Hobbes’s apologia for the
emergent seventeenth-century mercantile
society speaks directly to twentiethcentury
minds in its concern for peace,
systematic analysis of power, and elevation
of politics to the status of a science.
736 pp. 978-0-14-043195-7 $11.00
ernst theodor hoFFMann
1776 – 1822, Prussian
The Life and Opinions
of the Tomcat Murr
Translated and Annotated by Anthea Bell
with an Introduction by Jeremy Adler
This bizarre double narrative is a supreme
example of literary bravado that reveals
Hoffmann—as the greatest of German
storytellers.
384 pp. 978-0-14-044631-9 $16.00
The Tales of Hoffmann
Selected and Translated with an
Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale
Eight of Hoffmann’s best and best-known
tales are retold in this collection —among
them “Mademoiselle de Scudery,’’ “Doge
and Dogeressa,” and “The Sandman,”
which forms the basis for the first half of
Offenbach’s opera.
416 pp. 978-0-14-044392-9 $15.00
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