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The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
Edited with an Introduction and
Commentary by Harold Beaver
The sixteen stories in this collection,
including the celebrated “Eureka,” reveal
Poe as both an apocalyptic prophet and a
pioneer of science fiction.
432 pp. 978-0-14-043106-3 $15.00
See Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.
Marco polo
1254 – 1324, Venetian
The Travels
Translated with an Introduction by
Ronald Latham
Despite piracy, shipwreck, brigandage,
and wild beasts, Marco Polo moved in
a world of highly organized commerce.
This chronicle of his travels through Asia,
whether read as fact or fiction, is alive with
adventures, geographical information, and
descriptions of natural phenomena.
384 pp. 978-0-14-044057-7 $13.95
polybIus
c. 200 – c. 118 b.c., greek
The Rise of the Roman Empire
Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert with an
Introduction by F. W. Walbank
The forty books of Polybius’s Universal
History, covering events in the third
and second centuries b.c. that led to the
supremacy of Rome, present the first
panoramic view of history.
576 pp. 978-0-14-044362-2 $17.00
See The Portable Greek Historians.
JaN potocKI
1761 – 1815, polish
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Translated with an Introduction by
Ian MacLean
A rich and wondrous mélange of literary
styles and narrative voices, full of philosophical
insights, highly charged erotica,
and side-splitting humor. “One of the
great masterpieces of European literature
. . . this new translation offers us the work
as a whole in English for the first time,
in the dizzyingly elaborate form envisioned
by the author’s extraordinary imagination.”
—The New York Times Book Review
656 pp. 978-0-14-044580-0 $17.00
“a polish classic. . . . it reads like the most
brilliant modern novel.” —salman rushdie
ezra pouNd
1885 – 1972, american
Early Writings
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Ira Nadel
Pound—“the better craftsman,” said
T. S. Eliot—is credited with founding a
new language of poetry and launching
the modernist movement. This unique
selection of his early poems and prose
includes such early masterpieces as
“The Seafarer” and “Homage to Sextus
Propertius;” the first eight of Pound’s
incomparable “Cantos”; and more than
thirty essays and articles.
224 pp. 978-0-14-218013-6 $15.00
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