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Fanny Fern
1811 – 1872, american
Ruth Hall
A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
Introduction and Notes by Susan Belasco
In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels
of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily
on her own experiences: the death of her
first child and her beloved husband, a
bitter estrangement from her family, and
her struggle to make a living as a writer.
Written as a series of short vignettes and
snatches of overheard conversations, it is
as unconventional in style as in substance
and strikingly modern in its impact.
384 pp. 978-0-14-043640-2 $15.00
henry Fielding
1707 – 1754, english
The History of Tom Jones,
A Foundling
Edited by Thomas Keymer and Alice
Wakely Introduction by Thomas Keymer
A novel rich in incident and coincidence,
this picaresque tale of a lusty, handsome
young man and his amorous adventures
mocks the literary-and moral-conventions
of Fielding’s time.
1,024 pp. 978-0-14-043622-8 $10.00
88 Penguin ClassiCs
Joseph Andrews/Shamela
Edited with an Introduction by
Judith Hawley
Joseph Andrews, Fielding’s first full-length
novel, is the story of a young man’s
determination to save his virtue—and
one of the richest satires ever written. In
Shamela, a brilliant parody of Samuel
Richardson’s Pamela, a virtuous servant
girl long resists her master’s advances and
is eventually “rewarded” with marriage.
432 pp. 978-0-14-043386-9 $11.00
ruth First
1925 – 1982, south african
117 Days
An Account of Confinement and
Interrogation Under the South African
90-Day Detention Law
Introduction by Angela Y. Davis
An invaluable testimonial of the excesses
of the apartheid, 117 Days presents the
harrowing chronicle of journalist Ruth
First’s isolation and abuse at the hands
of South African interrogators after her
arrest in 1963.
160 pp. 978-0-14-310574-9 $14.00
ruth First
Born Heloise Ruth First in 1925, she was the daughter of a Latvian Jewish father,
who emigrated in 1907, and mother born in Lithuania. With a degree in social
sciences at the University of Witwatersrand, First worked for the Cape Townbased
Guardian and then edited the Springbok Legion’s journal Fighting Talk.
First and her husband Joe Slovo were leading members of the antiapartheid
movement. In 1963, First was arrested under South Africa’s ninety-day detention
law, making the national headlines. She left South Africa in 1964 and published
her account in London in 1965, followed the next year by a BBC film. She edited
the collection of Nelson Mandela’s articles and speeches entitled No Easy Way to
Freedom. In 1982 in Maputo, Mozambique, she was killed by a letter-bomb sent
to her by the South African security police.