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FraNK NorrIs
1870 – 1902, american
McTeague
A Story of San Francisco
Introduction by Kevin Starr
Set against the harsh California landscape,
this novel by one of America’s foremost
literary realists preserves, in almost
obsessive detail, the darker side of a stillyoung
San Francisco.
496 pp. 978-0-14-018769-4 $12.00
The Octopus
A Story of California
Introduction by Kevin Starr
Based on an actual violent dispute
in California’s Great Central Valley,
The Octopus (1901) depicts the clash
between classic opposing interests of the
Progressive Era—the farmers and the
land-hungry railroads that distributed
their wheat.
496 pp. 978-0-14-018770-0 $17.00
The Pit
A Story of Chicago
Introduction and Notes by Joseph A.
McElrath, Jr. and Gwendolyn Jones
This classic literary critique of turn-ofthe-century
capitalism in the United
States reveals Norris’s powerful story of
an obsessed trader intent on cornering the
wheat market and the consequences of his
unchecked greed.
496 pp. 978-0-14-018758-8 $17.00
NotKer the staMMerer
See Einhard.
See J. M. Synge.
seaN o’casey
MarGaret olIphaNt
1828 – 1897, scottish
Miss Marjoribanks
Edited with an Introduction and
Notes by Elizabeth Jay
The esteemed English critic Q. D. Leavis
declared Oliphant’s heroine, Lucilla, to be
the “missing link” in nineteenth-century
literature between Jane Austen’s Emma
and George Eliot’s Dorothea Brooke, and
“more entertaining, more impressive, and
more likeable than either.”
512 pp. 978-0-14-043630-3 $17.00
oMar KhayyáM
c. 1048 – c. 1122, persian
The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyám
Selected and Translated with an
Introduction by Peter Avery and
John Heath-Stubbs
Philosopher, mathematician, poet, and
astronomer, Omar Khayyám is known
and loved throughout the world for his
celebrated Ruba’iyat, presented here in an
acclaimed and authentic translation.
120 pp. 978-0-14-044384-4 $11.00
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