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Henri Barbusse
UNDER FIRE
Newly Translated by Robin Buss
Introduction by Jay Winter
“One of the most influential of all war novels,
Henri Barbusse’s Le Feu appeared in
1916, won the Prix Goncourt the following
year, and by the armistice had sold 200,000
copies in French.”—History Today.
Penguin Classics 352 pp. 0-14-303904-0 $14.00
Gustave Flaubert
SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
Translated by Robert Baldick
Revised with an Introduction
and Notes by Geoffrey Wall
Baldick’s translation has been sensitively
revised, and this volume includes a new
introduction, chronology, suggestions for
further reading, and explanatory notes.
Penguin Classics 432 pp. 0-14-044797-0 $8.00
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
THE IDIOT
Newly Translated by David McDuff
Introduction by William Mills Todd III
A new translation of Dostoyevsky’s great
novel about the perils of innocence in a
corrupt world. Includes an introduction,
chronology, suggestions for further reading,
a note on the translation, and
explanatory notes.
Penguin Classics 768 pp. 0-14-044792-X $12.00
Anton Chekhov
THE SHOOTING PARTY
Translated by Ronald Wilks
Introduction by John Sutherland
In Penguin Classics for the first time,
this edition of Chekhov’s only fulllength
novel includes an introduction,
chronology, suggestions for further reading,
a note on the text and translation,
and explanatory notes.
Penguin Classics 224 pp. 0-14-044898-5 $13.00
A LIFE IN LETTERS
Translated by
Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips
Introduction and Notes by Rosamund Bartlett
Including new material from the Russian
archives—the first uncensored edition of
Chekhov’s letters to be published in any
language. “Colourful, informative, often
humorous...a very welcome addition to the
literature on Chekhov in English.”
—Times Literary Supplement.
Penguin Classics 551 pp. 0-14-044922-1 $15.00
Victor Erofeyev
LIFE WITH AN IDIOT
Translated by Andrew Reynolds
The long-awaited collection of stories
from one of Russia’s most controversial
authors. “[Erofeyev is a] master game
player [in an] orgy of wordplay.”
—Elizabeth Rich.
Penguin 256 pp. 0-14-023621-X $15.00
Harry Mulisch
SIEGFRIED
Translated by Paul Vincent
“A vivid and suspenseful...thriller about
Hitler” (The New York Times)—from
the acclaimed author of The Discovery
of Heaven. “Insightfully imagined,
provocatively concluded.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Penguin 192 pp. 0-14-200498-7 $14.00
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Editor
BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES
This new edition brings together works
from a broad historical and geographical
range and contains many texts published
in English for the first time as well as new
translations of some well-known works.
Includes an informative introduction, a
preface to each selection, suggestions for
further reading, and a glossary.
Penguin Classics 608 pp. 0-14-044758-X $16.00
Dante Alighieri
LA VITA NUOVA
Translated with an Introduction
by Barbara Reynolds
This revised and updated edition
includes new apparatus featuring a
foreword, introduction, chronology,
suggestions for further reading, a note
on the translation, explanatory notes,
and an index of first lines of the poems.
Penguin Classics 128 pp. 0-14-044947-7 $11.00
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