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1 Promo Like all things truly valuable, everyman s LIBRARY is priceless. TONI MORRISONEVERYMAN S 11/1/08 8:45 AM Page 209210 MAYEVERYMAN S LIBRARY POCKET POETSP oetry 41 8x 61 4 256 pages ribbon marker$ (Can. $ ) ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26925-6 Also available from Pocket Poets:Animal Poems978-0-679-43631-7 Doggerel: Poems About Dogs978-1-4000-4037-7 The Great Cat: Poems About Cats978-1-4000-4334-7On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds978-0-375-40749-9 Acaptivating anthology that celebrates one of na-ture s most majestic creatures and the age-oldbond between humans and kinds of equine characters grace these pages,from magnificent warhorses to cowboys trustysteeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, fromwild horses to dream horses.

2 We encounter the fa-mous Trojan horse in Virgil s Aeneid, and then see itfrom a wholly different perspective in Matthea Har-vey s whimsical Inside the Good Idea. Longfellow sPaul Revere defies an empire on the back of a horse,while Shakespeare s Richard III vainly offers his king-dom for one. Robert Burns s Auld Farmer dotes af-fectionately on his aging mare, while the mares of theking of Corinth in Paul Muldoon s Glaucus devourtheir owner. Robert Frost s little horse stopping bythe woods is gently puzzled by human behavior, andTed Hughes is dazzled by a stunning vision of horsesat dawn: Grey silent fragments / Of a grey silentworld. Mythical and metaphorical horses cavort alongsidevividly real animals in these poems, whether they behumble servants, noble companions, beloved friends,or emblems of the wild beauty of the world beyondour Ciuraruis the editor of the everyman s Li-brary Pocket Poets anthologies Fatherhood, Mother-hood, Solitude, Beat Poets, and Doggerel: Poems AboutDogs.

3 She lives in by Carmela CiuraruPOEMS ABOUT HORSESK-Su09_5p_r1_PR 11/1/08 8:45 AM Page 210 MAY211 everyman S LIBRARY POCKET POETSP oetry 41 8x 61 4 256 pages ribbon marker$ (Can. $ ) 978-0-307-26974-4 Russian poets have always been admired for thelyric and emotional intensity with which theyforge private and public experience into verse, andthis volume gathers together some of the best-loved,and most powerful and immediate poems from thegreatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twenti-eth centuries. Here is the work of Alexander Pushkin,Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely,Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ivan Bunin, Osip Mandel-stam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, BorisPasternak, and Joseph Brodsky, among many by theme love, mortality, art, and theenduring mystery of Mother Russia herself andpresented in the best available translations, thesepoems will serve as both an introduction to the mas-tery of Russian poetry and a wide-ranging selectionto be returned to again and Washingtonis the editor of many everyman sLibrary Pocket Poet anthologies, including Love Poems,Erotic Poems, Friendship Poems.

4 And Poems of by Peter WashingtonRUSSIAN POETSK-Su09_5p_r1_PR 11/1/08 8:45 AM Page 211212 JUNEEVERYMAN S LIBRARY CLASSICSF iction 47 8x 81 8 1,024 pages ribbon marker$ (Can. $ ) ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27112-9 Also available from everyman s LIBRARY :The Three Musketeers$ (Can. $ ) 978-0-375-40657-7 Alexandre Dumas s epic novel of justice, retribu-tion, and self-discovery one of the most endur-ingly popular adventure tales ever written in anewly revised beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dan-t s, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedlyimpregnable sea fortress, the Ch teau d If. After adaring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasurerevealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes therest of his life to tracking down and punishing the en-emies who wronged a brilliant storyteller, Dumas was given torepetitions and redundancies.

5 This slightly stream-lined version of the original 1846 English translationspeeds the narrative flow while retaining most of therich pictorial descriptions and all the essential detailsof Dumas s intricately plotted and thrilling Dumaswas born in 1802 in France anddied in Ecois the author of The Name of the Rose andFoucault s DUMASTHE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTOI ntroduction by Umberto EcoK-Su09_5p_r1_PR 11/1/08 8:45 AM Page 212 JUNE213 everyman S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICSF iction 47 8x 81 8 712 pages ribbon marker$ (Can. $ ) ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26904-1 The most generous one-volume collection everpublished of short stories, autobiographical writ-ings, poetry, and essays by the writer Yeats called Ire-land s Chekhov.

6 Selected and arranged thematically by JulianBarnes, the rich mix of writings in The Best of FrankO Connorstarts off with his most famous short story, Guests of the Nation, set during the Irish War ofIndependence; chronicles his childhood with an alco-holic father and protective mother; and traces his lit-erary influences in brilliant essays on Joyce and Connor s wonderfully polyphonic tales of family,friendship, and rivalry are set beside those that bringto life forgotten souls on the fringes of society. O Con-nor s writings about Ireland vividly evoke the land he called home, while other stories probe the hard-ships and rewards of Irish emigration.

7 Finally, we seeO Connor grappling, in both fiction and memoir,with the largest questions of religion and Best of Frank O Connor is a literary monumentto a truly great O Connor(1903 1966) was born in Cork, Ire-land. The author of plays, stories, criticism, and po-etry, he was also a director of the legendary AbbeyTheatre in Barneswas born in England in 1946. Three ofhis novels have been short-listed for the Booker O CONNORTHE BEST OF FRANK O CONNORE dited and with an Introduction by Julian Barnes National Print AdvertisingK-Su09_5p_r1_PR 11/1/08 8:45 AM Page 213 Collected together for the first time in hardcover,these eighteen classic stories from across JohnUpdike s career form a luminous chronicle of the lifeand times of one marriage in all its rich 1956, Updike published a story, Snowing inGreenwich Village, about a young couple, Joan andRichard Maple, at the beginning of their the next two decades, he returned to these char-acters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent hap-piness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and es-trangement.

8 Seventeen Maples stories were collected in1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go,prompted by a television adaptation. Now those storiesappear in hardcover for the first time, with the additionof a later story, Grandparenting, which returns us tothe Maples s lives long after their wrenching divorce. John Updike is the author of many short-story collec-tions and novels, including Couples, The Witches of East-wick, In the Beauty of the Lilies, Terrorist, and The Widowsof Eastwick. He lives in Beverly Farms, available in Pocket Classics at $ each:Christmas Stories978-0-307-26717-7 Ghost Stories 978-0-307-26924-9 Love Stories978-0-307-27087-0214 AUGUSTEVERYMAN S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICSF iction 41 2x 73 16 400 pages ribbon marker$ (Can.)

9 $ ) ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27176-1 Also available from everyman s LIBRARY Contemporary Classics by John Updike:The Complete Henry Bech$ (Can. $ ) 978-0-375-41176-2 Rabbit Angstrom$ (Can. $ ) 978-0-679-44459-6 JOHN UPDIKETHE MAPLES STORIES National Print AdvertisingK-Su09_5p_r1_PR 11/1/08 8:45 AM Page 214215 Nemirovsky wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and incisivefiction. The New York Times Book ReviewThree classic works, including the novel Revolutionary Road, which inspired the major motion picture.$ (NCR) 978-0-307-26708-5$ (Can. $ ) 978-0-307-27089-4 Recently PublishedEVERYMAN S LIBRARY ORIGINAL HARDCOVERS Critically acclaimed and widely reviewed O Brien s novels are of an originality and durability beyond the scope of almost every other writer.

10 The Atlantic Monthly A remarkable body of work .. readers of her mastery of thisform. The New York Observer$ (Can. $ ) 978-0-307-26749-8$ (Can. $ ) 978-0-307-26988-1K-Su09_5p_r1_PR 11/1/08 8:45 AM Page 215216 The best of beloved children s fiction and poetry with colorful cloth sewn bindings andcharming illustrations many in full color thirty-nine titles including Charles Dickens sA ChristmasCarol, C. S. Evans sSleepingBeauty, J. M. Barrie s Peter Pan, Louisa MayAlcott sLittleWomen, andRobertLouisStevenson s Treasure illustrated editions for the new mother or the entire familyChildren s Classics Set$ (Can. $ ) 978-0-307-38530-7A selection of perfect giftsThe Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton$ (Can.)