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pu soNGlING
1640 – 1715, chinese
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Translated with an Introduction by
John Minford
Eminent Chinese scholar John
Minford’s superb translation captures
the consummate skill and understated
humor of Pu Songling’s classic work.
With elegance, wit, and charm, the
exquisite stories in this collection reveal a
supernatural world that is as enlightening
as it is entertaining.
608 pp. 978-0-14-044740-8 $16.00
alexaNder pushKIN
1799 – 1837, Russian
*Eugene Onegin
A Novel in Verse
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Stanley Mitchell
Pushkin’s incomparable poem has at
its center a young Russian dandy much
like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits.
Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality
of everyday life, takes a trip to the
countryside, where he encounters the
young and passionate Tatyana, who falls
in love with him but is cruelly rejected.
Years later, Eugene Onegin sees the error of
his ways, but fate is not on his side.
304 pp. 978-0-14-044812-8 $14.00
196 penguin classics
The Queen of Spades and
Other Stories
Translated with an Introduction by
Rosemary Edmonds
Known as Russia’s greatest poet, Pushkin
was equally at ease working in other
literary forms. The prose collected here
includes “The Captain’s Daughter,” which
chronicles the Pugachev Rebellion of
1770, “The Negro of Peter the Great,” and
“Dubrovsky.”
320 pp. 978-0-14-044119-2 $15.00
Tales of Belkin and
Other Prose Writings
Translated by Ronald Wilks with an
Introduction by John Bayley
These stories are wonderful in their purity
of form, humor, and understatement.
This collection also contains a selection
of other Pushkin writings, including the
fragment Roslavlev, Egyptian Nights, and
the autobiographical Journey to Arzrum.
224 pp. 978-0-14-044675-3 $13.00
See The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader.
barbara pyM
1913 – 1980, english
Excellent Women
Introduction by A. N. Wilson
Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym’s
richest and most amusing high comedies,
presenting a series of snapshots of 1950s
England and the lives actually—and
pluckily—lived in a vanishing world of
manners and repressed desires.
256 pp. 978-0-14-310487-2 $14.00