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Kevin Birmingham
THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK
2015
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The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses
“A brilliant study.”—The New Yorker. “[This] new book
about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s
Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one
mighty strand.”—The New York Times.
See Fiction & Literature, page 6
Sebastian Barry
THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN
“One of the best writers in the English language....
[Barry’s] soul-wrenching narratives and incantatory
prose...are powerful canvases of the human spirit.”
—The Washington Post.
See Fiction & Literature, page 4
Nuala O’Connor
MISS EMILY
“A triumph of a novel.”—Robert Olen Butler. “This fictionalized
Dickinson crosses class, national, and religious lines to reach
out to her Irish maid Ada with compassion, empathy, and humanity....Eloquent prose.”—Dr. Paraic Finnerty, University of
Portsmouth, author of Emily Dickinson’s Shakespeare.
See Fiction & Literature, page 7
James R. Barrett
THE IRISH WAY
Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
Penguin History of American Life Series
“An excellent, bottom-up survey of the Irish experience over
the past two centuries....A superior ethnic study that will have
value for both scholars and general readers.”—Booklist.
See History & Memoir, page 3
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W. B. Yeats
WHEN YOU ARE OLD
Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
Edited with an Introduction by Rob Doggett
Includes such celebrated poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s
imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales and critical writings.
See Fiction & Literature, page 10
H I S TO RY & M E M O I R
Adomnán of Iona
LIFE OF ST. COLUMBA
Translated with an Introduction by
Richard Sharpe
A richly detailed portrait of religious life in
the 6th century, illuminating the history of
the early church in Ireland and Scotland. Line
drawings, maps, family trees.
Edmund Burke
THE PORTABLE EDMUND BURKE
Edited with an Introduction by Isaac Kramnick
Penguin Classics • 624 pp. • 978-0-14-026760-0 • $20.00
Barry Cunliffe
THE ANCIENT CELTS
THE IRISH WAY: Becoming
Discusses the disparity between the traditional and contemporary information on the Celts
and offers new insight into the true identity of
these ancient peoples. Illustrations.
Penguin History of American Life Series
MODERN IRELAND 1600–1972
Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-044462-9 • $18.00
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James R. Barrett
American in the Multiethnic City
“Richly detailed...a very absorbing work of
social history.”—The Wall Street Journal. “An
excellent, bottom-up survey of the Irish experience over the past two centuries....A superior ethnic study that will have value for both
scholars and general readers.”—Booklist.
Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-312280-7 • $18.00
Angela Bourke
THE BURNING OF
BRIDGET CLEARY
“A perceptive study.”—The New Yorker. “A
riveting account of a horrific murder in 19thcentury Ireland that is also a scholarly analysis of culture, politics, religion, and mythology.”—Kirkus Reviews.
Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-100202-6 • $16.00
Susan Brigden
NEW WORLDS, LOST WORLDS
The Rule of the Tudors, 1485–1603
Penguin History of Britain, Volume V
“A splendid piece of scholarship....Covers not
only England but Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
as well.”—Library Journal. “Triumphantly successful.”—Ralph Houlbrooke, Univ. of Reading,
The Times Literary Supplement. Maps and illustrations throughout.
Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-200125-7 • $19.00
Edmund Burke
A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY
INTO THE SUBLIME AND
BEAUTIFUL and Other
Pre-Revolutionary Writings
Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by David Womersley
Penguin • 360 pp. • 978-0-14-025422-8 • $23.00
R. F. Foster
Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower,
and Chris Foley
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
A Life in Letters
An annotated collection of the Irish-Scottish
author’s previously unpublished private correspondence.
Penguin • 720 pp. • 978-0-14-311433-8 • $18.00
Also of interest: Conan Doyle’s stories in Penguin
Classics and Signet Classics. See www.penguin.com/
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Henry Patterson
IRELAND SINCE 1939
The Persistence of Conflict
Penguin • 704 pp. • 978-0-14-013250-2 • $20.00
“Engrossing.”—Roy Foster, Financial Times.
“Original insight and a comprehensive synthesis of historical research.”—The Irish Times.
Gerald of Wales
Martin Sixsmith
PHILOMENA: A Mother, Her Son,
and a Fifty-Year search
“Anti-romantic and realistic. An elegantly
written assessment of the current consensus
on problematic questions in Irish history.”
—Shaun O’Connell.
THE HISTORY AND
TOPOGRAPHY OF IRELAND
Translated with an Introduction
and Notes by John O’Meara
Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-044423-0 • $15.00
Peter Hart
MICK: The Real Michael Collins
“A triumph; the narrative is detached, but
sympathetic. Collins is seen in the round,
with his weak points coolly dissected and
his undoubted organizational abilities put in
the context of the place and the time.”—Tom
Garvin, Irish Book Review. 16 pp. b/w photos.
Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-303854-2 • $20.00
John Haywood
THE PENGUIN HISTORICAL
ATLAS OF THE VIKINGS
Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-051328-8 • $22.00
Robert Kee
THE GREEN FLAG
All three volumes of Kee’s definitive history
of Irish nationalism—The Most Distressful
Country, The Bold Fenian Men, and Ourselves
Alone. “Industry, insight, and massive research.”—The New York Times.
Penguin • 896 pp. • 978-0-14-029165-0 • $22.00
Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-043625-9 • $18.00
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Foreword by Dame Judi Dench
“A searingly poignant account of forced adoption and its consequences.”—Kirkus Reviews
(starred). “Heartbreaking...a story that needed to be told.”—The Independent (UK).
Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-312680-5 • $17.00
Cecil Woodham-Smith
THE GREAT HUNGER
Ireland 1845–1849
“A masterpiece of the historian’s art.”—Robert
Kee. Illustrations, map.
Penguin • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-014515-1 • $18.00
NEW!
Garry Wills
THE FUTURE OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH WITH POPE FRANCIS
“A lively exercise in church history—history
intended to orient us in the here and now.”—
Chicago Tribune. “An informed look at the
Catholic Church and the challenges [Pope
Francis] faces.”—The Seattle Times.
Viking • 288 pp. • 978-0-525-42696-7 • $27.95
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FICTION & LITERATURE
Anonymous
THE TÁIN
D. H. Farmer, editor
THE AGE OF BEDE
Translated by J. F. Webb and D. H. Farmer
Includes The Voyage of St. Brendan, Bede’s
Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots
of Wearmouth and Jarrow, and Eddius
Stephanus’s Life of Wilfrid.
Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044727-9 • $15.00
Ben Forkner, editor
MODERN IRISH SHORT STORIES
Preface by Anthony Burgess
CONTRIBUTORS: Moore, Somerville, Ross,
Yeats, Synge, Corkery, O’Kelly, Stephens,
Joyce, O’Flaherty, Bowen, O’Faolain, O’Connor,
Kavanagh, Boyle, Beckett, McLaverty,
MacMahon, Edna O’Brien, Lavin, Kiely,
Plunkett, Higgins, Trevor, Flann O’Brien,
McCabe, McGahern. Biographical sketches.
Penguin • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-024699-5 • $22.00
Jeffrey Gantz, editor
EARLY IRISH MYTHS AND SAGAS
Translated by the editor
The fourteen myths and tales collected in this
volume represent the foremost written repository of Celtic oral tradition. Notes.
Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044397-4 • $16.00
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, editor
A CELTIC MISCELLANY
Translated by the editor
A selection of Celtic prose and poetry from all
periods up to the nineteenth century. Notes.
Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-044247-2 • $17.00
Eddie Lenihan with Carolyn E. Green
MEETING THE OTHER CROWD
The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
The master Irish folklorist, “one of the few
traditional storytellers—seanchaí in Gaelic—
still working in Ireland” (The New York Times),
presents his definitive collection of stories.
Tarcher • 352 pp. • 978-1-58542-307-1 • $15.95
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IRISH STUDIES
Translated with an Introduction
by Ciaran Carson
A “brilliant and altogether engaging new
translation” (Los Angeles Times) of the Old
Irish epic, Táin Bó Cúailnge, the 8th-century
tale of the legendary warrior Cú Chulainn.
“Outstanding....[Carson’s] impressive gifts,
as a storyteller and a highly skilled poet,
and wizard of language combine to recreate
the fabulous urgency of the Celtic Iron Age.”
—Professor Robert Welch, Univ. of Ulster.
Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-045530-4 • $17.00
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Sebastian Barry
THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN
“One of the best writers in the English language....[Barry’s] soul-wrenching narratives
and incantatory prose...are powerful canvases
of the human spirit.”—The Washington Post.
Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-312712-3 • $16.00
ON CANAAN’S SIDE
“The greatest writer of prose in the English
language...[This novel] fits seamlessly into
Barry’s unique and expanding vision, seeking
to restore with language that which has been
taken away by time.”—The Daily Beast ‘Must
Reads.’ “Richly detailed, often cinematic....War,
single parenthood, betrayal, unexpected acts
of compassion, death too early...and race relations are all threads in the tapestry of Lilly’s
life.”—The Philadelphia Enquirer.
Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-312218-0 • $15.00
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
THE SECRET SCRIPTURE
“[Barry writes] in language of surpassing beauty....It is like a song, with all the pulse of the Irish
language.”—Dinitia Smith, The New York Times.
Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-311569-4 • $16.00
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Winner of the Costa Book Award
A LONG LONG WAY
“Nobody writes better about the trenches of
the First World War than Sebastian Barry.”
—Peter Sheridan. “A deeply moving story of
courage and fidelity.”—J. M. Coetzee.
Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-303509-1 • $16.00
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Sebastian Barry
ANNIE DUNNE
“Annie’s passionate observations and shifting
moods—rendered in dense prose that’s close
to poetry—fuel this fine novel.”—The New
York Times.
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-200287-2 • $15.00
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THE WHEREABOUTS
OF ENEAS MCNULTY
“From the first sentences we know we are in
the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall
Street Journal. “Reflects on Irish history with
singular force, grace, and beauty.”—The Times
(London).
Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-028018-0 • $16.00
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Maeve Binchy
SCARLET FEATHER
“The dialogue crackles with wit and authentic
Irish style.…It takes a huge amount of talent,
insight, and compassion to create a ‘simple’
good story, and Maeve Binchy has it all.”—The
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Signet • 560 pp. • 978-0-451-20377-9 • $7.99
Also of interest: Light a Penny Candle 978-0-451-22264-0,
Quentins 978-0-451-20990-0, Nights of Rain and Stars
978-0-451-21446-1
Erskine Childers
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS
A Record of Secret Service
Foreword by Erskine C. Childers
Childers’s gripping tale of espionage, “the first
and best of spy stories” (The Times, London),
anticipated the work of Graham Greene and
John le Carré and retains its preeminent place
in the genre. With a foreword by the author’s
great-grandson.
Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-310632-6 • $16.00
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FICTION & LITERATURE
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Roddy Doyle
THE GUTS
Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns.
“It’s rare to read about a man’s midlife crisis,
complete with a stalled career, bowel cancer, and an extramarital affair, and burst out
laughing. Yet acclaimed Irish author Doyle
pulls it off....Too good to miss.”—The Library
Journal (starred review). “Quintessential
Doyle.”—The Boston Globe.
Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-312609-6 • $16.00
BULLFIGHTING: Stories
“These stories feel natural, autobiographical,
like the kind of thing a man might tell you
over a warm beer in a quiet bar.”—The Boston
Globe.
Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-312106-0 • $15.00
THE DEPORTEES
and Other Stories
Eight funny and poignant tales of immigrant
experience in contemporary Ireland. “[Doyle]
has the literary equivalent of perfect pitch.”
—The Christian Science Monitor.
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-311488-8 • $16.00
THE DEAD REPUBLIC
The triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that
began with A Star Called Henry. “Doyle is a
stellar storyteller....[He] exhibits a peerless
ear for cynicism as he grapples with the violence and farce of Irish history.”—Publishers
Weekly.
Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-311903-6 • $16.00
A STAR CALLED HENRY
“Stunning...a masterpiece, an extraordinarily
entertaining epic.”—The Washington Post.
“Vividly portrays the wild passions of an Irish
Everyman...and the birth of the modern Irish
nation.”—Time.
Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-303461-2 • $17.00
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice;
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year; An American
Library Association Notable Book
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OH, PLAY THAT THING
“One of the most remarkable achievements in
recent Irish and American literature.”—The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Roddy Doyle
PAULA SPENCER
“Captivating....A superbly drawn heroine.”—
The Independent (UK). “A magnificent achievement....If the first novel [The Woman Who
Walked into Doors] deals with the vicissitudes
of mind, fantasy and delusion that allowed
[Paula] to remain in a violent relationship,
the sequel deals with the forensic process of
recovery.”—Anne Devlin, The Guardian (UK).
Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-311273-0 • $14.00
THE WOMAN WHO
WALKED INTO DOORS
“One almost can’t help making chilling comparisons between the novel’s tough, buoyant narrator and James Joyce’s Molly Bloom.”
—Francine Prose, Los Angeles Times Book
Review. “A tour de force of literary ventriloquism.”—The Washington Post Book World.
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-025512-6 • $15.00
PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA
“One of the great modern Irish novels.”—The
Washington Post. “Doyle offers a breathtaking
glimpse into the inner life of a boy forced to
leave behind childish things.”—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-023390-2 • $16.00
Winner of the Booker Prize
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THE BARRYTOWN TRILOGY
The Commitments, The Snapper,
and The Van
“Doyle’s novels are as hilarious as they are
haunting...with brash energy, cheerful irreverence, and a street idiom that reads like poetry.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
Penguin • 640 pp. • 978-0-14-025262-0 • $20.00
THE SNAPPER
Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-017167-9 • $16.00
BROWNBREAD and WAR
These two irreverent plays are set in
Barrytown, the same colorful North Dublin
suburb of Doyle’s novels.
Penguin Plays • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-023115-1 • $14.00
Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-303605-0 • $14.00
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IN THE LAND OF TIME
and Other Fantasy Tales
Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by S. T. Joshi
The first annotated edition of the Irish master
of fantasy, “who imagined colors, ceremonies
and incredible processions that never passed
before the eyes of Poe or of De Quincey” (W. B.
Yeats).
Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-243776-6 • $16.00
Maria Edgeworth
CASTLE RACKRENT and ENNUI
Edited and Introduced by Marilyn Butler
Edgeworth (1767–1849) explores Anglo-Irish
relations, colonialism, class, money, sex, and
power in these stylish, skeptical novels.
Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-043320-3 • $15.00
THE ABSENTEE
Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by Heidi Thompson
Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-043645-7 • $16.00
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Tana French
BROKEN HARBOR
“Every bit as piercingly brilliant as its predecessors....Readers can brace themselves for
the gritty details of a typical police procedural and then sit back and savor the poetry.”
—Chicago Tribune.
Penguin • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-312330-9 • $16.00
FAITHFUL PLACE
“Revisits, evocatively and lyrically, themes
she’s used before: love, loss, memory, murder,
and life in modern Ireland. French’s writing
remains brilliant, and her dialogue is sharp,
often lacerating, and sometimes mordantly
funny.”—Booklist (starred review).
Penguin • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-311949-4 • $16.00
IN THE WOODS
“Drawn by the grim nature of her plot and
the lyrical ferocity of her writing, even smart
people who should know better will be able
to lose themselves in these dark woods.”—The
New York Times Book Review.
Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-311349-2 • $16.00
Edgar Award for Best First Novel; IVCA Clarion
Award for Best Fiction; Macavity Award for Best
First Mystery; Barry Award for Best First Novel;
Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist; Irish Times
Book Award Finalist
Also of interest: The Likeness 978-0-14-311562-5
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FICTION & LITERATURE
Oliver Goldsmith
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
James Joyce
Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-043159-9 • $10.00
Introduction by Hugh Kenner
Afterword by Langdon Hammer
Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by Stephen Coote
Dermot Healy
LONG TIME, NO SEE
“Compassionate and elegiac...a celebration
of the whole gift of existence....Everyday
chores and family obligations are elevated to
the level of epiphany.”—The Times Literary
Supplement. “A grand read, funny and provocative....Tenderness and affection win out
despite gunfire, despite ancient jealousies and
grudges.”—Annie Proulx, The Guardian.
Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-312343-9 • $16.00
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James Joyce
DUBLINERS
Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by Terence Brown
Fore word by Colum McCann
Centennial Deluxe Edition
“A handsome deluxe edition.”—The New York
Times.
Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-310745-3 • $17.00
Introduction and Notes by Terence Brown
Extensive notes. Map.
Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-018647-5 • $11.00
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Text and Criticism
Viking Critical Library
Edited and Updated by Robert Scholes
and A. Walton Litz
Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-024774-9 • $20.00
Introduction by Edna O’Brien
Afterword by Malachy McCourt
Based on the definitive text, which has all of
the author’s textual instructions.
Signet Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-451-53041-7 • $4.95
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FINNEGANS WAKE
Introduction by John Bishop
“A great comic vision, one of the few books
of the world that can make us laugh aloud on
nearly every page.”—Anthony Burgess.
Penguin Classics • 672 pp. • 978-0-14-118126-4 • $23.00
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
AS A YOUNG MAN
Gene Kerrigan
Signet Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-451-53015-8 • $4.95
Europa • 336 pp. • 978-1-60945-092-2 • $17.00
Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by Seamus Deane
Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-243734-6 • $11.00
Text, Criticism, and Notes
Viking Critical Library
Edited by Chester G. Anderson
Penguin • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-015503-7 • $20.00
THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE
Edited by Harry Levin
Includes Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man, Exiles, Collected Poems complete,
and selections from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Penguin Classics • 768 pp. • 978-0-14-015030-8 • $20.00
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Kevin Birmingham
THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK
The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses
“A brilliant study.”—The New Yorker. “[This]
new book about the long censorship fight
over James Joyce’s Ulysses braids eight or nine
good stories into one mighty strand....The best
story that’s told...may be that of the arrival of
a significant young nonfiction writer....A measured yet bravura performance.”—The New
York Times.
Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-312754-3 • $18.00
Cathy Kelly
SOMEONE LIKE YOU
Plume • 480 pp. • 978-0-452-28338-1 • $15.00
Gene Kerrigan
DARK TIMES IN THE CITY
“Kerrigan’s spare, incisive prose depicts an
Irish underworld and a population caught
in a closed circle of poverty and violence.”
—Publisher’s Weekly (starred).
THE RAGE
“Masterly.”—The New Yorker. “A boundlessly
readable portrait of an Ireland in which all the
old certainties have vanished.”—NPR.
Nominated for an LA Times Book Prize
Named one of the Wall Street Journal’s
10 Best Mysteries of the Year
THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR
“An absorbing, beautifully written, gritty
tale of Irish detection and corruption, full of
believable characters and bleak Dublin settings.”—The Times (London).
Europa • 356 pp. • 978-1-933372-26-6 • $14.95
Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award
Winner
NEW!
Marian Keyes
THE WOMAN WHO
STOLE MY LIFE
Irish beautician Stella Sweeney falls ill, falls
in love, then falls into a glamorous new life
in New York City. “Keyes’s witty women...humorous writing style, and uplifting tone have
become beloved by readers across the globe.”
—Chicago Tribune.
Viking • 464 pp. • 978-0-525-42925-8 • $27.95
Available July 2015
THE MYSTERY OF MERCY CLOSE
“Keyes’s portrayal of depression is nuanced
and authentic. Helen’s vibrant voice is spoton.”—Publishers Weekly.
Plume • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-218079-2 • $16.00
THE BRIGHTEST STAR
IN THE SKY
“Features a cast of deftly drawn characters....
Keyes weaves these characters’ stories together expertly, evoking a mellow, almost retro quality that renders the novel completely
addictive.”—The Irish Times.
Penguin • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-311849-7 • $16.00
Europa • 320 pp. • 978-1-60945-144-8 • $17.00
Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award
Finalist
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FICTION & LITERATURE
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
UNCLE SILAS
Edited with an Introduction by Victor Sage
With its subversion of reality and illusion and
its exploration of fear through the use of mystery and the supernatural, Uncle Silas breaks
through the confines of the conventional horror story.
Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-043746-1 • $16.00
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Jeremy Massey
THE LAST FOUR DAYS
OF PADDY BUCKLEY
“A fresh and intriguing spin on the Irish crime
novel....The tale of an ordinary man drawn
into a deadly conflict with a Dublin mob
boss....Sharply written, darkly comic, and full
of heart.”—Harry Dolan, author of Bad Things
Happen.
Riverhead • 304 pp. • 978-1-59463-344-7 • $25.95
Charles Robert Maturin
MELMOTH THE WANDERER
Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by Victor Sage
With its erudition, wit, and parody of arcane
learned manuscripts, this Gothic masterpiece
—first published in 1820—follows not only
in the tradition of the Gothic genre but also in
the works of Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne.
Penguin Classics • 704 pp. • 978-0-14-044761-3 • $15.00
John McGahern
HIGH GROUND
Absorbing and moving stories by “one of the
best stylists in English prose” (Newsweek).
Penguin • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-017708-4 • $13.00
Brian Moore
BLACK ROBE
Out of a conflict between the French colonists
and the Native Americans, Moore has fashioned an extraordinary novel.
Plume • 256 pp. • 978-0-452-27865-3 • $16.00
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THE YOUNG WAN
The prequel to the trilogy The New York Times
called “as unpretentious and satisfying as a
home-cooked meal” unveils the hilarious and
visceral backstreet beginnings of its unforgettable Dublin heroine.
Plume • 224 pp. • 978-0-452-28484-5 • $14.00
THE MAMMY
“O’Carroll spins warm, funny growing-up
stories filled with comic misunderstandings
and knockabout farce....A light-hearted tale of
working-class life.”—Boston Herald.
Plume • 176 pp. • 978-0-452-28103-5 • $15.00
THE CHISELLERS
The unsinkable Agnes Browne returns with
her seven “chisellers.” “In this half-melodrama, half-farce, the most successful scenes are
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THE GRANNY
“O’Carroll is a gifted storyteller, and his novel
is elegantly and economically crafted...his
knack for capturing the way Dubliners speak
and live makes a solid finale to the Agnes
Browne trilogy.”—The Washington Post.
Plume • 192 pp. • 978-0-452-28184-4 • $15.00
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Nuala O’Connor
MISS EMILY
“A triumph of a novel.”—Robert Olen Butler.
“In the spirit of her beloved Elizabeth Barrett
Browning and George Eliot, this fictionalized Dickinson crosses class, national, and
religious lines to reach out to her Irish maid
Ada with compassion, empathy, and humanity....Eloquent prose.”—Dr. Paraic Finnerty,
University of Portsmouth, author of Emily
Dickinson’s Shakespeare.
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-312675-1 • $16.00
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Maggie O’Farrell
AFTER YOU’D GONE
“Short vignettes, told from multiple points
of view and in multiple voices...merge into
a coherent and moving portrait of a young
woman’s journey toward a life-threatening
crisis.”—Publishers Weekly. “Beautifully written contemporary fiction.”—Edna O’Brien.
Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-200032-8 • $16.00
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MY DREAM OF YOU
“An honest and poignant account of a woman
attempting to build a future on the ruins of the
past.”—Kirkus Reviews. “O’Faolain’s depiction
of the west of Ireland during and just after the
Famine surpasses any historical recitation of
the ‘facts.’”—Publishers Weekly.
Riverhead • 544 pp. • 978-1-57322-908-1 • $17.00
NEW!
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THE VISITORS
“The story of two Irish families linked intimately over several generations....A poignant tale of hope and loss that is colorful
and engaging in its detail and highly recommended.”—Booklist. “A haunted and beautiful
book.”—Charles Baxter.
Viking • 288 pp. • 978-0-670-02463-6 • $26.95
THE HILL ROAD
“Lush and evocative...a dreamlike collection
of four novellas spanning several generations.”—The New York Times Book Review. “A
remarkable achievement....There is a wonderful Irish music running through O’Keeffe’s
prose, yet his tales of ordinary rural life in
twentieth-century Ireland are unsparing and
never sentimental.”—The Baltimore Sun.
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-303793-4 • $14.00
Winner of the Story Prize
A Whiting Writers’ Award Recipient
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George Bernard Shaw
ARMS AND THE MAN
Introduction by Rodelle Weintraub
Features the definitive text.
Penguin Classics • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-303976-1 • $12.00
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
Introduction by Stanley Weintraub
Features the definitive text.
Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-303977-8 • $13.00
CANDIDA
Introduction by Peter Gahan
Features the definitive text.
Penguin Classics • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-303978-5 • $12.00
PYGMALION
Edited by Dan H. Laurence
Introduction by Nicholas Grene
First produced in 1914, this witty exposure
of the British class system remains one of
Shaw’s most popular plays.
Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-143950-1 • $11.00
SAINT JOAN
Edited by Dan H. Laurence
Introductions by Imogen Stubbs
and Joley Wood
Unhappy with “the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition,” Shaw presents
a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, naïve, foolhardy, brave—a rebel who challenged the conventions and values of her day.
Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-043791-1 • $14.00
HEARTBREAK HOUSE
Edited by Dan H. Laurence
Introduction by David Hare
This comedy of manners takes a probing look
at the conflict between “old-fashioned” idealism and the realities of the modern age.
Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-043787-4 • $12.00
George Bernard Shaw
PLAYS
Mrs. Warren’s Profession,
Arms and the Man, Candida,
Man and Superman
Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-043790-4 • $12.00
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Signet Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-451-53009-7 • $5.95
PLAYS PLEASANT
Bram Stoker
Signet Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-451-52944-2 • $8.95
Edited by Dan H. Laurence
Introduction by W. J. McCormack
The definitive text of the four comedies Arms
and the Man, Candida, You Never Can Tell, and
The Man of Destiny. Chronology, cast lists, and
a list of Shaw’s principal works.
Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-043794-2 • $14.00
PLAYS UNPLEASANT
Edited by Dan H. Laurence
Introduction by David Edgar
This volume includes Widowers’ Houses, The
Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-043793-5 • $15.00
THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS
Edited by Dan H. Laurence
Introduction by Michael Billington
This volume includes Caesar and Cleopatra,
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, and The
Devil’s Disciple.
Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-043792-8 • $14.00
MAN AND SUPERMAN
Edited by Dan H. Laurence
Introduction by Stanley Weintraub
In this caustic satire of romantic conventions,
Shaw provides an original twist on the Don
Juan myth.
Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-043788-1 • $13.00
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DRACULA
Edited with a Revised Introduction and Notes
by Maurice Hindle
Preface by Christopher Frayling
Includes Stoker’s essay on censorship and his
interview with Winston Churchill.
Penguin Classics • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-143984-6 • $11.00
Cover by Ruben Toledo
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-310616-6 • $16.00
Introduction by Leonard Wolf
Afterword by Jeffrey Meyers
Signet Classics • 416 pp. • 978-0-451-53066-0 • $4.95
NAL • 480 pp. • 978-0-451-22868-0 • $16.00
THE ILLUSTRATED DRACULA
Illustrated by Jae Lee
Studio • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-200515-6 • $21.95
DRACULA’S GUEST
and Other Weird Tales
Introduction by Kate Hebblethwaite
Original Preface by Florence Stoker
Comprised of tales published by Stoker’s
widow after his death, as well as the novel The
Lair of the White Worm.
Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-144171-9 • $16.00
Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
DRACULA: THE UN-DEAD
A sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic novel, written by his direct descendent. “A well needed
shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos.”
—Publishers Weekly.
NAL • 432 pp. • 978-0-451-23051-5 • $15.00
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PYGMALION and MY FAIR LADY
Introduction by Eric Bentley
Afterword by Norman Lloyd
MAJOR BARBARA
Edited by Dan H. Laurence
Introduction by Margery Morgan
This comedy is one of Shaw’s most powerful, forward-looking plays and, according to
Margery Morgan, “the earliest of the great
achievements of literary modernism in
Britain.”
George Bernard Shaw
and Alan Jay Lerner
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FICTION & LITERATURE
Jonathan Swift
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Introduction by Leo Damrosch
Afterword by Nathaniel Rich
Signet Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-53113-1 • $4.95
Edited with an Introduction
by Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Based on the first edition of 1726, including explanatory notes, bibliography, and illustrations.
Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-143949-5 • $9.00
A MODEST PROPOSAL
and Other Writings
Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by Carole Fabricant
The title essay is accompanied by a generous
selection of prose pieces, including humorous
pamphlets critiquing British rule in Ireland,
articles, and correspondence.
Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-043642-6 • $17.00
J. M. Synge
THE ARAN ISLANDS
Edited and Introduced by Tim Robinson
Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-018432-7 • $16.00
J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats,
and Sean O’Casey
THE PLAYBOY OF THE
WESTERN WORLD
and Two Other Irish Plays
Introduction by W. A. Armstrong
Also contains Yeats’s The Countess Cathleen
(1892) and O’Casey’s Cock-a-doodle Dandy
(1949).
Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-018878-3 • $13.00
William Trevor
LOVE AND SUMMER
“A thrilling work of art.”—The New York Times
Book Review. “A masterpiece of dialogue and
inflected gesture; no author alive is more respectful of his characters or efficient at fleshing them out.”—Los Angeles Times.
Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-311788-9 • $16.00
A New York Times Notable Book
William Trevor
CHEATING AT CANASTA
William Trevor
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-311406-2 • $14.00
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-100217-0 • $15.00
“Magisterial....These stories stay in the mind
long after they’re finished.”—William Boyd,
The New York Times Book Review.
A New York Times Notable Book; a Los Angeles
Times and Boston Globe Best Book of the Year;
an ALA Notable; a NY Public Library “Book to
Remember”
THE COLLECTED STORIES
“With this immense collection, Trevor has
filed in serene self-trust the results of years
of work of impeccable strength and a piercing profundity.”—The New York Times Book
Review.
Penguin • 1,280 pp. • 978-0-14-023245-5 • $30.00
SELECTED STORIES
Brings together 48 stories from After Rain,
The Hill Bachelors, A Bit on the Side, and
Cheating at Canasta, offering readers “treasures of gorgeous writing, brilliant dialogue,
and unforgettable lives” (The New York Times
Book Review).
Penguin • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-311596-0 • $20.00
Selected as one of The New York Times Book
Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year
A BIT ON THE SIDE: Stories
“A wonderful book...William Trevor really is
the best short story writer alive.”—Michael
Dirda, The Washington Post. “Every story
here is a model example of just how much
a great writer can reveal in a short space.”
—Newsweek.
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-303591-6 • $15.00
A New York Times Notable Book and an ALA/
Booklist Editors’ Choice
FELICIA’S JOURNEY
“A thriller lifted to the level of high art.”
—Publishers Weekly. “Trevor shows just how
wise and wry and funny and morally astute an
observer of the human comedy he is.”—The
New York Times Book Review.
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-025360-3 • $15.00
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award
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FOOLS OF FORTUNE
Introduction by Francine Prose
“To my mind Trevor’s best novel and a very
fine one.”—Graham Greene.
Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-303962-4 • $15.00
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award
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“Ireland’s answer to Chekhov has produced
another story collection of splendid melancholy.”—The Boston Globe.
Winner of the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for
Fiction; a New York Times Notable Book; a Boston
Globe Best Book of the Year
THE STORY OF LUCY GAULT
“One of Trevor’s finest works....An evensong to
time itself.”—The Boston Globe. “In his stately
depiction of a tragic tale…Trevor has once
again captured the terrible beauty of Ireland’s
fate, and the fate of us all—at the mercy of
history, circumstance, and the vicissitudes
of time.”—Alice McDermott, The Atlantic
Monthly.
Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-200331-2 • $16.00
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; a New York
Times Notable Book
Also of interest: After Rain: Stories 978-0-14-025834-9,
My House in Umbria 978-0-14-200365-7, Death in Summer
978-0-14-028782-0
Oscar Wilde
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Cover by Ruben Toledo
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-310614-2 • $16.00
Hardcover Classics Edition
Introduction by Robert Mighall
Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-144246-4 • $22.00
Edited and Introduced by Robert Mighall
Includes selected contemporary reviews, a chronology, further reading, and Peter Ackroyd’s
introduction from the original edition.
Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-143957-0 • $9.00
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
and Three Stories
Foreword by Gary Schmidgall
Afterword by Peter Raby
Also includes Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, The
Happy Prince, and The Birthday of the Infanta.
Signet Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-53045-5 • $4.95
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FICTION & LITERATURE
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Gyles Brandreth
Afterword by Jack Zipes
Includes illustrations from the original editions of Wilde’s two collections. THE HAPPY
PRINCE: The Happy Prince; The Nightingale
and the Rose; The Selfish Giant; The Devoted
Friend; The Remarkable Rocket; THE HOUSE
OF POMEGRANATES: The Young King; The
Birthday of the Infanta; The Fisherman and His
Soul; The Star-Child.
Edited by Richard Allen Cave
“The purest example in English literature
of a ‘verbal opera.’”—W. H. Auden. Also includes Salomé, A Woman of No Importance,
An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy, Lady
Windermere’s Fan, and an excised scene from
The Importance of Being Earnest.
COMPLETE FAIRY TALES
OF OSCAR WILDE
Signet Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-451-53107-0 • $5.95
THE SOUL OF MAN
UNDER SOCIALISM
and Selected Critical Prose
Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by Linda Dowling
Features “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,” “In
Defense of Dorian Gray,” and pieces from
Intentions, including “The Decay of Lying” and
“Pen, Pencil, Poison.”
Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-043387-6 • $18.00
DE PROFUNDIS
And Other Prison Writings
Edited with an Introduction by Colm Toibín
Also includes further letters to his wife, his
friends, the Home Secretary, newspaper editors and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, Bosie,
himself, as well as “The Ballad of Reading
Gaol.”
Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-043990-8 • $14.00
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING
EARNEST and Other Plays
Penguin Classics • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-043606-8 • $12.00
Introduction by Sylvan Barnet
New Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer
Also includes Salomé and Lady Windermere’s
Fan.
Signet Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-451-53189-6 • $4.95
THE BEST OF OSCAR WILDE
Selected Plays and Writings
Introduction by Sylvan Barnet
Afterword by Marylu Hill
Includes The Importance of Being Earnest, An
Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance,
Lady Windermere’s Fan, and Salomé, plus two
interviews with Wilde and samples of his literary criticism.
Signet Classics • 448 pp. • 978-0-451-53222-0 • $5.95
Oscar Wilde
THE PORTABLE OSCAR WILDE
Revised Edition
Edited by Richard Aldington and
Stanley Weintraub
Includes the complete texts of The Picture
of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being
Earnest, several poems and letters, Phrases
and Philosophies for the Use of the Young,
the definitive text of De Profundis, Lady
Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance,
and An Ideal Husband.
Penguin Classics • 752 pp. • 978-0-14-015093-3 • $20.00
COMPLETE SHORT FICTION
Edited with an Introduction by Ian Small
Includes the complete texts of The
Happy Prince and Other Tales, A House of
Pomegranates, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and
Other Stories, six “Poems in Prose,” and “The
Portrait of Mr. W. H.”
Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-143969-3 • $15.00
NEW!
W. B. Yeats
WHEN YOU ARE OLD
Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
Edited with an Introduction by Rob Doggett
Includes such celebrated, lyrical poems as
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “He Wishes for
the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales—including his first major poem, “The Wanderings of
Oisin,” based on a Celtic fable—and his critical
writings.
Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-310764-4 • $17.00
Available June 2015
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IRISH AMERICA IN HIS TORY & LITERATURE
Jim Carroll
THE PETTING ZOO
Preface by Patti Smith
“Introspective, observant, and, at times,
quite hilarious, this is a fitting culmination of
Carroll’s life’s work.”—Booklist. “A heartfelt
portrait of a New York original by a New York
original.”—Publishers Weekly.
Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-312009-4 • $16.00
Also of interest: The Basketball Diaries 978-0-14010018-1, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries
(1971–1973) 978-0-14-008502-0, Fear of Dreaming:
The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll 978-0-14-058695-4,
Void of Course: Poems 1994–1997 978-0-14-058909-2
Edward Conlon
BLUE BLOOD
A memoir of life in the NYPD. “A dazzling epic
of street life and rough camaraderie....Vibrant
and hilarious.”—The Washington Post Book
World.
Riverhead • 576 pages • 978-1-59448-073-7 • $20.00
A Washington Post Book of the Year and New York
Times Notable Book
Tom Coyne
A COURSE CALLED IRELAND
A Long Walk in Search of a Country,
a Pint, and the Next Tee
“Explores the history of the land being traveled and pauses for tales both tall and short,
as well as, in this case, for pub songs.”—The
Boston Globe.
Gotham • 320 pp. • 978-1-592-40528-2 • $17.00
Stephen Crane
MAGGIE
A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales
Edited with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff
“A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New
York exactly a century ago.”—Alfred Kazin.
This edition also includes “George’s Mother”
and eleven other tales and sketches of New
York.
Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-043797-3 • $12.00
Edited with an Introduction by Alfred Kazin
Afterword by Tom Wolfe
Signet Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-451-52998-5 • $5.95
Jeanine Cummins
THE OUTSIDE BOY
A poignant debut novel of an Irish gypsy boy’s
childhood in the 1950s.
NAL • 368 pp. • 978-0-451-22948-9 • $15.00
James T. Farrell
STUDS LONIGAN
Eugene O’Neill
EARLY PLAYS
Edited with an Introduction
by Jeffrey H. Richards
Includes seven one-act plays, and five fulllength plays including The Emperor Jones and
The Hairy Ape.
Penguin Classics • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-118670-2 • $15.00
Introduction by Ann Douglas
“Farrell’s trilogy of working-class youth—
originally published as Young Lonigan,
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and
Judgement Day—is a monument of social
realism.”—The Reader’s Catalog. “A defining work of the 1930s, an American classic.”
—The Weekly Standard.
COMPLETE PLAYS 1913–1920
Introduction by Ann Douglas
Joe Queenan
Penguin Classics • 896 pp. • 978-0-14-118673-3 • $24.00
YOUNG LONIGAN
Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-218007-5 • $15.00
Introduction by Pete Hamill
Signet Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-451-52913-8 • $7.95
Maureen Howard
BRIDGEPORT BUS
Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-005566-5 • $14.00
William Kennedy
ROSCOE
The seventh novel in Kennedy’s Albany cycle.
“Kennedy’s art is an eccentric triumph, a
quirky, risk-taking imagination at play upon
the solid paving stones, the breweries, the
politicos and pool sharks of an all-too-actual city.”—Thomas Flanagan, The New York
Review of Books.
Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-200173-8 • $16.00
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Also of interest: O Albany! 978-0-14-007416-1, An
Albany Trio 978-0-14-025786-1, The Flaming Corsage
978-0-14-024270-6, Quinn’s Book 978-0-14-007737-7,
Riding the Yellow Trolley Car 978-0-14-015992-9, Very
Old Bones 978-0-14-013898-6
Dr. Denis Leary
WHY WE SUCK
A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat,
Loud, Lazy and Stupid
Proudly Irish American, defiantly working
class, with a reserve of compassion for the
underdog and the overlooked, Leary delivers
blistering diatribes that are both penetrating
social commentary and laugh-out-loud funny.
Library of America • 1,100 pp.
978-0-940450-48-6 • $40.00
COMPLETE PLAYS 1920–1931
Library of America • 1,072 pp.
978-0-940450-49-3 • $40.00
COMPLETE PLAYS 1932–1943
Library of America • 1,000 pp.
978-0-940450-50-9 • $35.00
CLOSING TIME: A Memoir
“A fine piece of work in every respect: self-exploratory but never self-absorbed, painful and
funny.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington
Post. “Unsentimental and brutally honest...
captures the pathos of growing up in a difficult family and somehow getting beyond it.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review).
Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311668-4 • $16.00
ONE FOR THE BOOKS
“[Queenan’s] passion for reading is infectious....It’s so rare to hear such a heartfelt defense of books—it’s one of the most original
works we read this year.”—New York Daily
News (Best books of 2012).
Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-312420-7 • $15.00
William L. Riordan
PLUNKITT OF TAMMANY HALL
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very
Practical Politics
100th Anniversary Edition
Introduction by Peter Quinn
Written by reporter Riordan in 1905, this
masterpiece of Americana artfully reveals
the political skill of the “honest graft,” as perfected by George Washington Plunkitt, the
ward boss of New York’s supremely powerful
Fifteenth Assembly District.
Signet Classics • 128 pp. • 978-0-451-52620-5 • $5.95
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