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udyard kiPling
1865 – 1936, english (b. india)
nobel Prize winner
The Portable Kipling
Edited with an Introduction by
Irving Howe
This essential volume of Kipling’s writings
contains selections from The Jungle Books
and Soldiers Three as well as more than
twenty stories, fifty poems, and three
essays.
736 pp. 978-0-14-015097-1 $18.00
Captains Courageous
Introduction by John Seelye
Kipling’s only novel set in America, this
is one of the most beloved sea adventure
stories.
240 pp. 978-0-14-243771-1 $12.00
The Jungle Books
Edited with an Introduction by
Daniel Karlin
Kipling’s knowledge of and love for the
jungle animates these delightful fables,
many featuring Mowgli the wolf boy. Both
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle
Book are included in this volume.
384 pp. 978-0-14-018316-0 $10.00
Just So Stories
Edited with an Introduction by Peter Levi
Linked by poems and scattered with
Kipling’s own illustrations, these
imaginative fables were inspired by the
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author’s empathy with the animal world
and his delight with the foibles of human
nature.
128 pp. 978-0-14-018351-1 $8.00
Kim
Edited with an Introduction by
Edward W. Said
The story of a young boy who moves
through two cultures, Kim captures India’s
opulent, exotic landscape, overshadowed
by the uneasy presence of British rule.
320 pp. 978-0-14-018352-8 $7.00
heinriCh von kleist
1777 – 1811, Prussian
The Marquise of O—
and Other Stories
Translated with an Introduction by
David Luke and Nigel Reeves
Between 1799, when he left the Prussian
Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist
developed into a writer of unprecedented
and tragically isolated genius. This
collection of works from the last period
of his life also includes “The Earthquake
in Chile,” “Michael Kohlhaas,” “The
Beggarwoman of Locarno,” “St. Cecilia or
The Power of Music,” “The Betrothal in
Santo Domingo,” “The Foundling,” and
“The Duel.”
320 pp. 978-0-14-044359-2 $15.00
Choderlos de laClos
1741 – 1803, French
Dangerous Liaisons
Edited and Translated with an Introduction
and Notes by Helen Constantine
This fresh translation of Laclos’s
scandalous tale brings the moral and
emotional depravity of decadent society
into high relief.
448 pp. 978-0-14-044957-0 $12.00