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Modern Classics Modern Classics Breakfast at Tiffany's Bill Amberg for Penguin Classics Truman Capote This Penguin Classic is the result of a creative collaboration between Bill Amberg and the world's favourite publisher. Great books and the best quality leather continue to change over time, and yield an enduring pleasure. We feel sure that you will enjoy this particular Penguin Classic as only true classics are: for many years to come. It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail­hour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned­up nose, a heart­breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189536 Price £50.00 Format B format pb Extent 176pp Territory 1BKZ The Big Sleep Bill Amberg for Penguin Classics Raymond Chandler This Penguin Classic is the result of a creative collaboration between Bill Amberg and the world's favourite publisher. Great books and the best quality leather continue to change over time, and yield an enduring pleasure. We feel sure that you will enjoy this particular Penguin Classic as only true classics are: for many years to come. Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family – and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures – is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189512 Price £50.00 Format B format pb Extent 272pp Territory 1BKZ A Room with a View Bill Amberg for Penguin Classics E. M. Forster This Penguin Classic is the result of a creative collaboration between Bill Amberg and the world's favourite publisher. Great books and the best quality leather continue to change over time, and yield an enduring pleasure. We feel sure that you will enjoy this particular Penguin Classic as only true classics are: for many years to come. Forster's social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189499 Price £50.00 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Territory 1BCKZ2A Modern Classics The Great Gatsby Bill Amberg for Penguin Classics F. Scott Fitzgerald This Penguin Classic is the result of a creative collaboration between Bill Amberg and the world's favourite publisher. Great books and the best quality leather continue to change over time, and yield an enduring pleasure. We feel sure that you will enjoy this particular Penguin Classic as only true classics are: for many years to come. Everybody who is anybody is seen at Jay Gatsby's glittering parties. Day and night his mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby – young, handsome, fabulously rich – always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189505 Price £50.00 Format B format pb Extent 208pp Territory 1BCKZ Brideshead Revisited Bill Amberg for Penguin Classics Evelyn Waugh This Penguin Classic is the result of a creative collaboration between Bill Amberg and the world's favourite publisher. Great books and the best quality leather continue to change over time, and yield an enduring pleasure. We feel sure that you will enjoy this particular Penguin Classic as only true classics are: for many years to come. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly­disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189529 Price £50.00 Format B format pb Extent 432pp Territory 1BCKZ US Rights PFD Translation Rights PFD Film Rights PFD Serial Rights PFD The Picture of Dorian Gray Bill Amberg for Penguin Classics Oscar Wilde This Penguin Classic is the result of a creative collaboration between Bill Amberg and the world's favourite publisher. Great books and the best quality leather continue to change over time, and yield an enduring pleasure. We feel sure that you will enjoy this particular Penguin Classic as only true classics are: for many years to come. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints of unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at his trial at the Old Bailey in 1895. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189482 Price £50.00 Format B format pb Extent 304pp Territory 1W Modern Classics The Grass Arena An Autobiography John Healy Winner of the J. R. Ackerley prize for autobiography John Healy, the son of poor Irish immigrants in London, grows up hardened by violence and soon finds himself overwhelmed by alcoholism. He ends up in the grass arena: the parks and streets of the inner city, where beggars, thieves, prostitutes and killers fight for survival and each day brings the question of where to find the next drink. In his searing autobiography Healy describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141189598 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 272pp Territory 1BCKZE And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs The legendary unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac On August 14th, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer and dropped his body into the Hudson River. Kammerer had long fawned over the younger Carr, making homosexual advances that, for a time, had seemed harmless enough. The next day he went to his friends Bill Burroughs and Jack Kerouac for help. Doing so, he caught them up in the crime. Soon after, Burroughs and Kerouac decided to collaborate on a fictionalization of the events. They alternated chapters, Burroughs writing as Will Dennison, a bartender steeped in the criminal underworld and Jack as Mike Ryko, a hard­drinking merchant marine in dirty chinos. For the title, they settled on a line from a news report they had heard one night while sitting in a bar on Columbus Circle. A zoo had caught fire, and the radio announcer ended his piece by stating "and the hippos were boiled in their tanks." Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9781846141645 Price £20.00 Format 216 x 135 mm hb Extent 224pp Territory 1BKZ Wake Up A Life of the Buddha Jack Kerouac With an Introduction by Robert Thurber and a Foreword by the Dalai Lama Never published in Kerouac's lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddhartha Gautama's life and works. Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father's palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenment. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141189468 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 160pp Territory 1BCKZ Modern Classics The Essential Groucho Writings by, for and About Groucho Marx Stefan Kanfer New Modern Classics edition for this hilarious collection 'No, Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend.' Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples of Groucho, one of the most influential and well­loved figures in the long and glittering history of comedy. From early scripts to complete screenplays, from magazine funnies to fascinating personal correspondence, via books, greedy banks, even greedier lawyers and the coming of television, Kanfer's collection captures the essence of Groucho's inimitable comic genius. 'I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. . .' Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141189444 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 272pp Territory 1BEKZ Journey Through a Small Planet Emanuel Litvinoff First time in Modern Classics, with a new introduction and notes by Patrick Wright In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working­class Jewish childhood in the East End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city, but worlds apart in culture and spirit. With vivid intensity Litvinoff describes the overcrowded tenements of Brick Lane and Whitechapel, the smell of pickled herring and onion bread, the rattle of sewing machines and chatter in Yiddish. He also relates stories of his parents, who fled from Russia in 1914, his experiences at school and a brief flirtation with Communism. Unsentimental, vital and almost dream­like, this is a masterly evocation of a long­vanished world. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141189307 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 256pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights David Higham Associates Translation Rights David Higham Associates Film Rights David Higham Associates Serial Rights David Higham Associates Siddhartha Hermann Hesse New to Penguin Modern Classics with a new introduction by Paulo Coelho Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory the twentieth century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922. Set in India, Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141189574 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 144pp Territory 1BCKZ US Rights Peter Owen Ltd Translation Rights Peter Owen Ltd Film Rights Peter Owen Ltd Serial Rights Peter Owen Ltd Hothouse Brian Aldiss New to Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the Sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of Vegetables. Gren and his lady – not to mention the tummybelly men – journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long­enduring novels, fast moving, and packed with brilliant imagery, Hothouse won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year 1962. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141189550 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Territory 1BCEKZ Modern Classics Quantum of Solace (B format) The Complete James Bond Short Stories Ian Fleming All Ian Fleming's short stories published together for the first time To celebrate the release of the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, all Ian Fleming's short stories are being published in one volume for the first time. Includes: From a View to a Kill For Your Eyes Only Quantum of Solace Risico The Hildebrand Rarity Octopussy The Living Daylights The Property of a Lady 007 in New York Pub Date May 2008 ISBN 9780141189628 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 304pp Territory 1BCKZ Anthem Ayn Rand A new addition to our collection of Rand novels in Penguin Modern Classics Equality 7­2521 is a man apart. Since The Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7­2521 has felt that he is different. When he is sent by The Council of Vocations to work as a road sweeper, he stumbles upon a link to the old world that gives him the spur to break free. First published in England in 1938, Ayn Rand's short dystopian novel crystallizes the ideas of individualism and competition that would make her name. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141189611 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 112pp Territory 1BCKZ Modern Classics The Psychedelic Experience A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary A guidebook to the wilderness of the mind and an indispensable resource from the founding father of psychedelia for the first time in Modern Classics The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman­professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind­expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient sacred manuscript, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, from a psychedelic perspective. The Psychedelic Experience describes their discoveries in broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan mediation techniques and psychotropic substances. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141189635 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 144pp Territory 1BKZ Design as Art Bruno Munari 'Munari has encouraged people to go beyond formal conventions and stereotypes by showing them how to widen their perceptual awareness' International Herald Tribune Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out some of his illuminating ideas. This title forms part of the Penguin on Design series which includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141035819 Price £8.99 Format A format pb Extent 224pp Territory 1W The Medium is the Massage An Inventory of Effects Marshall McLuhan McLuhan was named the 'patron saint' of Wired Magazine Well known for coining the term 'Global Village', Marshall McLuhan's thinking was, and still is, revolutionary. His theories, many of which are illustrated in this astonishing 'inventory of effects', force us to question how modes of communication have shaped society. This is an astonishing work by a truly astonishing man. The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. This is one of four books in that series. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141035826 Price £8.99 Format A format pb Extent 160pp Illustrations Fully illustrated throughout Territory 1BKZ US Rights Gingko Press Translation Rights Gingko Press Film Rights Gingko Press Serial Rights Gingko Press Ways of Seeing John Berger 'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time' Observer John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on a BBC television series and has since become a classic: Berger opens the window to a world without words. This title forms part of the Penguin on Design series which includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141035796 Price £8.99 Format A format pb Extent 176pp Illustrations Integrated illustrations throughout Territory 1BCKZ US Rights John Berger Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK Modern Classics On Photography Susan Sontag 'A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves' Washington Post Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In six groundbreaking essays, Susan Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. This title forms part of the Penguin on Design series which includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141035789 Price £8.99 Format A format pb Extent 224pp Territory 1BKZ Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile Françoise Sagan New Modern Classics edition for these two novels, in one volume, with a new Introduction by Rachel Cusk A one­volume edition of two classics by Françoise Sagan. Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cécile, a seventeen­year­old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences. A Certain Smile is the tale of Dominique, a young French woman, whose assessment of her life leads to the realization that feelings for her current boyfriend are only that of fondness, not love. An encounter with her boyfriend's uncle unfolds into new love, friendships and understanding. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141442303 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 224pp Territory 1BKZ Modern Classics Forbidden Colours Yukio Mishima Life magazine called him ‘the Japanese Hemingway’; Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese novelist to win a Nobel prize, declared that ‘a writer of his caliber appears only once every 200 or 300 years’ Written when Mishima was only twenty­six, Forbidden Colours is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice, the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141189567 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 432pp Territory 1BKZ Solo Faces James Salter Published in Modern Classics for the first time Solo Faces tells the story of an American climber obsessed with a mountain in the French Alps, the Dru, thought to be unscalable. Salter captures the genuine feel of climbing and the passion of the climber, and juxtaposes it with the more earthbound tugs of love and ordinary life. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189581 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 240pp Territory 1BKZ Hindoo Holiday An Indian Journal J. R. Ackerley First time in Penguin Classics for this classic travel story with a new introduction by William Dalrymple In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth­century travel literature. Pub Date January 2009 ISBN 9780141189253 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 304pp Territory 1BCKZ Modern Classics The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Angela Carter, Jack Zipes A new edition of Angela Carter's wonderful translation of the most famous fairy tales, with a new introduction by Jack Zipes In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault's work and set out to adapt the stories for modern readers of English. In breathing new life into these classic fables, she produced versions that live on as classics in their own right, marked as much by her signature wit, irony, and subversiveness as they are by the qualities that have made them universally appealing for centuries. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141189956 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 112pp Territory 2W Metamorphosis and Other Stories Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann A compelling collection of new translations of Kafka's best works This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes 'Metamorphosis', his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; 'Meditation', a collection of his earlier studies; 'The Judgement', written in a single night of frenzied creativity; 'The Stoker', the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, 'The Aeroplanes at Brescia', Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780143105244 Price £12.99 Format B format pb Extent 320pp Territory 1W The Yage Letters Redux Allen Ginsberg, Oliver Harris, William S Burroughs A collection of letters by Burroughs detailing his experiments with the 'Yage' drug, and Ginsberg's responses as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters ­ a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel ­ he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time and space, to derange his senses ­ the perfect drug for the author of the wild decentred books that followed. Years later, Ginsberg writes back as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps, and the drug worse and more profound than he had imagined. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189864 Price £12.99 Format B format pb Extent 192pp Territory 1BKZ Modern Classics Junky The definitive text of 'Junk' Oliver Harris, William S Burroughs Burroughs' first novel, Junky remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written 'Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.' In this complete and unexpurgated edtion of Burroughs' famous book, he depicts the addict's life: his hallucinations, his ghostly noctural wanderings, his strange sexuality and his hunger for the needle. Junky remains one of the most accurate and mesmerising account of addiction ever written. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189826 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 208pp Territory 1BKZ2AC The Wild Boys A Book of the Dead William S Burroughs First time in Modern Classics for this elusive, disturbing and fascinating novel The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organised armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humour, wild imagination and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189833 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 192pp Territory 1BKZ Exterminator! William S Burroughs An experimental, mosaiclike novel by Burroughs, exploring science-fantasy wars, racism and pyschiatric horrors Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science­fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their part in this mosaiclike, experimental novel. Here is William S. Burroughs at his coruscating and hilarious best. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189840 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 176pp Territory 1BKZ Modern Classics The Job Interviews with William S. Burroughs Daniel Odier, William S Burroughs A collection of interviews with William S. Burroughs, exploring his thoughts on topics as diverse as the police, writing, drug use and death - to name but a few The Job is William S. Burroughs at work, attacking our traditional values, condemning what he calls 'the American nightmare', and expressing his often barbed views on Scientology, the police, orgone therpay, history, women, writing, politics, sex, drugs, and death. His conversation splices images of death­by­hanging with elevators and airports, the story of his drug additcion and cure with ideas on the use of hieroglyphs. He has beeen called 'the most important and innovative writer to emerge since World War II' (J. G. Ballard, Washington Post Book World). Provocative, crackling with anger and intensity, The Job reveals why. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141189857 Price £12.99 Format B format pb Extent 224pp Territory 1BKZ Shadow Game Michael Power Groundbreaking novel about an inter-racial gay romance 'A web of laws had been spun to keep us apart'. So writes rising young Ray, public relations man for the Organisation, who is falling in love against all the taboos ­ with Victor, the country's most popular deejay, on Radio Bantu. The setting is Johannesburg in the Sixties, where such a high profile 'dirty case' can only play into the hands of the powers that be. First published pseudonymously in 1972, Michael Power's frank, masterly exposure of the police­state brutality of that period may now appear without restriction both at home and abroad. Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780143185567 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 240pp Territory 7W South African Eden James Stevenson-Hamilton 'The ideal of a sanctuary is to preserve every form of wildlife existing within it from man's attack' James Stevenson-Hamilton (1937) South African Eden is James Stevenson­Hamilton's memoir of over four decades of service as warden of what became the world renowned Kruger National Park, a classic of ecology. With a new concept in preserving the indigenous wilds, Stevenson­Hamilton ensured South Africa's heritage for the future. Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780143185581 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 340pp Territory 7W Modern Classics Lark Rise Flora Thompson First part First installment of Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing LARK RISE, OVER TO CANDLEFORD and CANDLEFORD GREEN, is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities ­ a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town ­ is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen, friends and relations ­ all painted with a gaiety and freshness of observation that make this trilogy an evocative and sensitive memorial to Victorian rural England. Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780141190143 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 256pp Territory 1W Over to Candleford Flora Thompson Second part of the trilogy Second instalment of Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing LARK RISE, OVER TO CANDLEFORD and CANDLEFORD GREEN, is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities ­ a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town ­ is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen, friends and relations ­ all painted with a gaiety and freshness of observation that make this trilogy an evocative and sensitive memorial to Victorian rural England. Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780141190150 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 160pp Territory 1W Candleford Green Flora Thompson Third part of the trilogy Third instalment of Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing LARK RISE, OVER TO CANDLEFORD and CANDLEFORD GREEN, is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities ­ a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town ­ is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen, friends and relations ­ all painted with a gaiety and freshness of observation that make this trilogy an evocative and sensitive memorial to Victorian rural England. Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780141190136 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 160pp Territory 1W Modern Classics The World and the Cattle Attwell Sidwell Mopeli-Paulus The manuscript of The World and the Cattle is very valuable because it identifies the ambiguities the Mopelis adopted towards the different forces which formed the environment of this little Basotho clan, clinging precariously to their land and cattle on the slopes of the Drakensberg' - Alf Stadler, in a 1987 paper The autobiography of A. S. Mopeli­Paulus, author of the best­selling Blanket Boy's Moon and of its equally prestigious follow­up, Turn to the Dark. Although substantial excerpts were published in Drum magazine at the time of composition in the mid­1950s, this is the first appearance of the complete text. Whether running away from school, serving in the 'Grave Unit' during the battle of El Alamein or proving an extraordinary leader through the early days of the anti­apartheid struggle, here is the testimony of a vibrant writer. Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780143185574 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 240pp Territory 1W The Curious Case of Benjamin Button And Six Other Stories F Scott Fitzgerald This collection of stories, originally published in 1922, is the basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett F. Scott Fitzgerald makes Baltimore his setting for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a fantastical tale with some Poe­like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning "in the dozen years of his life from white to iron­gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced." This collection includes the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, THE CUT GLASS BOWL, FOUR FISTS, MAY DAY, O RUSSET WITCH!, HEAD AND SHOULDERS and CRAZY SUNDAY. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141190198 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 208pp Territory 1BCKZ