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MeriWether leWis
1774 – 1809, american
WilliaM Clark
1770 – 1838, american
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Edited and with an Introduction by
Frank Bergon
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s
remarkable chronicle of their Voyage of
Discovery across the pristine, uncharted
wilderness of the American West occupies
a unique place in American history,
recording a natural world never seen by
white men: Edenic landscapes, mysterious
native people, and the first descriptions of
hundreds of plants and animals.
504 pp. 978-0-14-243736-0 $16.00
sinClair leWis
1885 – 1951, american
nobel Prize winner
Babbitt
Introduction and Notes by
James M. Hutchisson
Babbitt captures the flavor of the United
States during the economic boom years of
the 1920s, and its protagonist has become
the symbol of middle-class mediocrity, his
name an enduring part of the American
lexicon.
320 pp. 978-0-14-018902-5 $11.00
150 Penguin ClassiCs
Main Street
Introduction and Notes by Martin Bucco
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis’s portrait of
Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the
myth of the Midwest as God’s country and
became a symbol of the cultural narrowmindedness
and smug complacency of
small towns everywhere.
448 pp. 978-0-14-018901-8 $13.00
li Po
701 – 762, Chinese
tu Fu
712 – 770, Chinese
Poems
Selected and Translated with an
Introduction and Notes by Arthur Cooper
More than forty selections from two
eighth-century poets of China cover the
whole spectrum of human life and feeling.
256 pp. 978-0-14-044272-4 $14.00
abrahaM linColn
1809 – 1865, american
*The Portable Abraham Lincoln
Edited with an Introduction
by Andrew Delbanco
The Portable Abraham Lincoln contains
the great public speeches—the first
debate with Stephen Douglas, the “House
Divided” speech, the Gettysburg Address,
the Second Inaugural Address—along
with less familiar letters and memoranda.
This updated edition includes a revised
introduction, updated notes on the text, a
chronology of Lincoln’s life, and four new
selections of his writing.
384 pp. 978-0-14-310564-0 $18.00