New Penguin Books Expand With Surnames Kinship and Taboo Titles
A review highlights seven new Penguin titles including Basil Cottle’s The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames and Robin Fox Kinship and Marriage. Also featured are Polish Writing Today edited by Celia Wieniewska and Franz Steiner’s Taboo, plus Sacred Books of the World reissue and Pascal’s Provincial Letters. Restoration comedies anthology completes the list.
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Basil Cottle
Deiols
Celia Wieniewska
Penguin
Jan Kott
Kazimierz Brandys
Robin Fox
Gadget Betrayed The City And The Mountains
A British review of Eca de Queiroz novel The City and the Mountains translated by Roy Campbell. The piece praises the author as a realist precursor to Zola and notes the trans literary influence and humorous critique of modern gadgets. It mentions Jacinto’s Parisian life and the mountain homeland, with a Sunday date of June 2 1968.
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Eca de Queiroz
England
Emile Zola
Ohio University Press
Jacinto
Spain
Eva de Queiroz
Roy Campbell
Pictograph History of the Oglala Sioux
A review of Amos Bad Heart Bull drawings with text by Helen H. Blish and introduction by Mari Sandoz. The work records Oglala life, rites, and battles from 1890 to 1913, including the Little Big Horn, Ghost Dance, and Fourth of July celebrations, with critical notes on the give away tradition.
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Amos Bad Heart Bull
Helen H. Blish
Mari Sandoz
University of Nebraska Press
Herodotus
Amos
University of Nebraska
Oglalas
Teton Sioux
Teton
Dakotas
Missouri
Old Crossing
Verendrye National Monument
North Dakota
Miss Sandoz
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
Bozeman Trail
Crazy Horse
the Little Big Horn
Helen Blish
Notable Biographies and Poetry Volumes for Fall Release
A Signet edition of And Try Not to Miss Laurel and Hardy by John McCabe features a foreword by Dick Van Dyke and 32 pages of vintage photos dating to 1906. John Berryman's Short Poems from Farrar, Straus and Giroux gathers 64 poems including Dispossessed and Formal Elegy, reflecting on Kennedy’s death.
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Mackinac College
Laurel and Hardy
Signet
Dick van Dyke
John Berryman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Berryman
Kennedy
The Lost Unicorn by Peter Beagle
Peter Beagle’s new fantasy follows Schmendrick the magician and Molly Grue as they search for the unicorns. The trio travels through adventures to confront the wicked king Haggard, facing the Red Bull and meeting Prince Lir.
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Lost Unicorn
Peter Beagle
Viking
Unicorn
Schmendrick
Molly Grue
Haggard
Red Bull
Lir
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MR. Laurel and
MR. Hardy
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