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The Penguin CLASSICS Series


Penguin Classics L1-L99 (page 1)
Penguin Classics L100-L199 (page 2)
Penguin Classics L200-L250 (page 3)


THIS PAGE: No. 2 Penguin Classics L100 - L199






Information and cover photographs of the Penguin SPECIALS series:

Number: L100
Series No.: L100
Title: THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
Translated: and with an introduction, by N. K. Sandars
Cover illustration: shows a cylinder seal in use from a fourth millenium seal by Juliet Renny
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: September 1960
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: William Clowes and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L101
Series No.: L101
Title: POEMS with a translation
Author: St John of the Cross
Translated: by Roy Campbell
Cover roundel: adaptation by Elizabeth Friedlander of the badge of the Discalced Carmelite Order founded by Saint teresa and her co-worker Saint Joan of the Cross
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: May 1960
Pages: 110pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: L102
Series No.: L102
Title: THE RISE AND FALL OF ATHENS - NINE GREEK LIVES: Theseus, Solon, Thermistocles, Aristides, Cirnon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades and Lysander
Author: Plutarch (Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus)
Translated: and with an introduction, by Ian Scott-Kilvert
Cover roundel: is a drawing by Berthold Wolpe of a fifth-century coin showing the head of Athene
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: June 1960
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L103
Series No.: L103
Title: NJAL'S SAGA
Translated: and with an introduction, by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson
Cover roundel: by Elizabeth Friedlander from a thirteenth-century door carving
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: July 1960
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L104
Series No.: L104
Title: THE EARLY HISTORY OF ROME - BOOKS I - V The History of Rome from its Foundation
Author: Livy (Titus Livius Patavinus)
Translated: and with an introduction, by Aubrey de Sélincourt
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: August 1960
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark
Price: 5/-
Number: L105
Series No.: L105
Title: THE DIVINE COMEDY III: PARADISE (Cantica III: Il Paradiso)
Author: Dante Alighieri
Translated: by Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds
Illustration: 'The Organisation of Paradise' (table) and General View - folded sheet glued to inside back cover
Cover roundel: shows head of Dante from picture by Domenico Michelino
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: April 1962
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney
Price: 5/-
Number: L106
Series No.: L106
Title: THREE TALES
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Translated: and with an introduction, by Robert Baldick
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: February 1961
Pages: 126pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L107
Series No.: L107
Title: THE PRINCE
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Translated: and with an introduction, by George Bull
Cover roundel: by George Buday
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: May 1960
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L108
Series No.: L108
Title: THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING
Translated: into modern English and with an introduction, by Clifton Wolters
Cover roundel: drawn by Diana Bloomfield
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: February 1961
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: William Clowes and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L109
Series No.: L109
Title: THE COSSACKS, THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH, HAPPY EVER AFTER
Author: Leo Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy)
Translated: and with an introduction, by Rosemary Edmonds
Cover illustration: Wood engraving by Cecil Keeling
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: October 1960
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L110
Series No.: L110
Title: THE PENSÉES
Author: Blaise Pascal
Translated: with an introduction by J. M. Cohen
Cover illustration the wood-engraving on the cover is by Reynolds Stone
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: January 1961
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L111
Series No.: L111
Title: MONKEY
Author: Wu Ch'êng-ên
Translated: by Arthur Waley
Cover illustration: drawing by K. F. Rowland
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: August 1961
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L112
Series No.: L112
Title: PROMETHEUS BOUND, THE SUPPLIANTS, SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, and THE PERSIANS
Author: Aeschylus
Translated: and with an introduction, by Philip Vellacott
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: May 1961
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L113
Series No.: L113
Title: DEAD SOULS
Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Translated: and with an introduction, by David Magarshack
Cover roundel: by Diana Bloomfield
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: June 1961
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L114
Series No.: L114
Title: CONFESSIONS
Author: St Augustine
Translated: by R. S. Pine-Coffin
Cover illustration: drawing by Juliet Renny
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: August 1961
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L115
Series No.: L115
Title: BEL-AMI
Author: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
Translated: and with an introduction, by H. N. P. Sloman
Cover roundel: drawn by Cecil Keeling
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: August 1961
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L116
Series No.: L116
Title: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES
Author: Choderlos de Laclos
Translated: with an introduction by P. W. K. Stone
Cover illustration the drawing on the cover is by Cecil Keeling
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: August 1961
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L117
Series No.: L117
Title: SATIRICAL SKETCHES
Author: Lucian of Samosata
Translated: and with an introduction, by Paul Turner
Cover illustration: engraving by Cecil Keeling
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: August 1961
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L118
Series No.: L118
Title: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA A book for everyone and no one
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Translated: and with an introduction, by R. J. Hollingdale
Cover illustration: drawing by K. F. Rowland from a photograph of Nietzsche
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: August 1961
Pages: 352
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L119
Series No.: L119
Title: THE QUEEN OF SPADES, THE NEGRO OF PETER THE GREAT, DUBROVSKY, and THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER
Author: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Translated: and with an introduction, by Rosemary Edmonds
Illustration: wood engravings in book by George Buday
Cover illustration: wood engraving by Cecil Keeling
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: June 1962
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/-
Number: L120
Series No.: L120
Title: THÉRÈSE RAQUIN
Author: Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola
Translated: and with an introduction, by L. W. Tancock
Cover roundel: is a woodcut from the Mansell Collection
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: March 1962
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L121
Series No.: L121
Title: THE BHAGAVAD GITA from the Sanskrit with an introduction
Translated: by Juan Masacaró
Cover illustration: by Lewin Bussingthwaighte
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: February 1962
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L122
This the the first of a new cover design for the Classics (known as the 'BLACK CLASSICS') produced by Penguin's Director of Art, Germano Facetti.


Series No.: L122
Title: IPHIGENIA, PHAEDRA and ATHALIAH
Author: Jean-Baptiste Racine
Translated: and with an introduction, by John Cairncross
Cover illustration: shows a portrait of Racine at Versailles (photo Giraudon)
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: November 1963
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L123
Series No.: L123
Title: THE CONQUEST OF NEW SPAIN
Author: Bernal Díaz
Translated: and with an introduction, by J. M. Cohen
Cover illustration: a Zapotec figure from Monte Albán (photograph: Holle Bildarchiv)
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: May 1963
Pages: 416pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney
Price: 6/-
Number: L124
Series No.: L124
Title: CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES
Author: Jean de Joinville and Geoffrey of Villehardouin
Translated: and with an introduction, by M. R. B. Shaw
Cover illustration: detail from a fourteenth-century manuscript of the Conquest of Constantinople
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: May 1963
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman
Price: 5/-
Number: L125
Series No.: L125
Title: THE POLITICS
Author: Aristotle
Translated: and with an introduction, by T. A. Sinclair
Cover illustration: wood engraving by George Buday
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: September 1962
Pages: 320p.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd.
Price: 5/-
Number: L126
Series No.: L126
Title: ZADIG AND L'INGÉNU
Author: Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Translated: and with an introduction, by John Butt
Cover illustration: detail from an engraving by G. Scotin 'Le Grand Visir'
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: April 1964
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L127
Series No.: L127
Title: LETTERS OF THE YOUNGER PLINY
Author: Pliny
Translated: and with an introduction, by Betty Radice
Cover illustration: shows detail from Trajan's Column
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: May 1963
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price:
Number: L128
Series No.: L128
Title: CONFESSIO AMANTIS (The Lover's Shrift)
Author: John Gower
Translated: into modern English and with an introduction, by Terence Tiller
Cover illustration: shows the 'King and his Lady' from a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: May 1963
Pages: 290pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L129
Series No.: L129
Title: MEDEA AND OTHER PLAYS: MEDEA, HECABE, ELECTRA and HERACLES
Author: Euripides
Translated: and with an introduction, by Philip Vellacott
Cover illustration: shows a Maenad taken from an Athenian Cup of the fifth-century B.C.
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: May 1963
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 4/-
Number: L130
Series No.: L130
Title: THE NEW LIFE (La Vita Nuova)
Author: Dante Alighieri
Translated: and with an introduction, by William Anderson
Cover illustration: shows detail from 'Dante e il suo Poema' by Domenico Michelino
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: February 1964
Pages: 112pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L131
Series No.: L131
Title: TAO TE CHING
Author: Lao Tzu
Translated: and with an introduction, by D. C. Lau
Cover illustration: a detail from a Chinese Silk Painting in the British Museum
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: February 1964 [printed date: 1963]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L132
Series No.: L132
Title: THE JUGURTHINE WAR and THE CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE
Author: Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
Translated: and with an introduction, by S. A. Handford
Cover illustration: shows detail from Roman mosaic
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: November 1963
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
Number: L133
Series No.: L133
Title: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
Author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Translated: and with an introduction, by John Wood
Cover illustration: detail from 'L'Embarquement pour Cythère' by Watteau
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: March 1964
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 4/-
Number: L134
Series No.: L134
Title: ADOLPHE
Author: Benjamin Constant
Translated: and with an introduction, by L. W. Tancock
Cover illustration: shows detail of a self portrait ' Courbet au Chien Noir'
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: March 1964
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L135
Series No.: L135
Title: GHOSTS AND OTHER PLAYS: Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Translated: by Peter Watts
Cover illustration: detail of Munch's 'The Sick Child'
Series Editor: E. V. Rieu
Date Published: March 1964
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L136
Series No.: L136
Title: THE ROPE AND OTHER PLAYS: Amphitryo, The Ghost, The Rope, A Three-Dollar Day
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus,
Translated: by E. F. Watling
Cover illustration: a Roman actress, first-century B.C.
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: February 1964
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman
Price: 5/-
Number: L137
Series No.: L137
Title: THE NIBELUNGENLIED
Translated: by A. T. Hatto
Cover illustration: shows detail from the 'Hundeshagen Codex', the only surviving illustrated Nibleungen manuscript
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: January 1965
Pages: 416pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Number: L138
Series No.: L138
Title: THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE
Author: Eusebius of Caesarea
Translated: and with an introduction, by G. A. Williamson
Cover illustration: detail from the 'Homélies de Saint Grégoire de Naziance' a Greek manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 432pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
Number: L139
Series No.: L139
Title: CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH
Author: Leo Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy)
Translated: and with an introduction, by Rosemary Edmonds
Cover illustration: detail from a nineteenth-century lithograph of Moscow
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: June 1964
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L140
Series No.: L140
Title: MEDITATIONS
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Translated: and with an introduction, by Maxwell Staniforth
Cover illustration: part of a bust of Marcus Aurelius in the Museum of Archaeology and History, Lousanne, Switzerland
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: July 1964
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney
Price: 4/-
Number: L141
Series No.: L141
Title: SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Translated: and with an introduction, by Robert Baldick
Cover illustration: detail from Courbet's 'Man with leather belt', Louvre, Paris
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: August 1964
Pages: 432pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L142
Series No.: L142
Title: THE SPANISH BAWD (Le Celestina) being the Tragic Comedy of Calisto and Melibea
Author: Fernando de Rojas
Translated: and with an introduction, by J. M. Cohen
Cover illustration: detail of a Spanish manuscript in the Musée de Chantilly
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: October 1964
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L143
Series No.: L143
Title: LADY WITH LAPDOG AND OTHER STORIES
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Translated: and with an introduction, by David Magarshack
Cover illustration: detail of a nineteenth-century lithograph of Moscow
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: August 1964
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney
Price: 5/-
Number: L144
Series No.: L144
Title: MEDIEVAL ENGLISH VERSE
Translated: and with an introduction, by Brian Stone
Cover illustration: cover detail from the Beatus page of the 'Peterborough Potter' in the Bibliothèque Royal, Brussels
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: October1964
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L145
Series No.: L145
Title: THE WAR WITH HANNIBAL, BOOKS XXI - XXX of the History of Rome from its Foundation
Author: Livy (Titus Livius Patavinus)
Translated: by Aubrey de Sèlincourt
Edited: and with an introduction by Betty Radice
Cover illustration: shows medalion from Hannibal's shield in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: April 1965
Pages: 688pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
Number: L146
Series No.: L146
Title: THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH, A DOLLS HOUSE, THE LADY FROM THE SEA
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Translated: by Peter Watts
Cover illustration: detail from Munch's 'Agony' in the Oslo Museum
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: March 1965
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L147
Series No.: L147
Title: FATHERS AND SONS
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Translated: by Rosemary Edmonds
Cover illustration: shows nineteenth-century Russian lithograph
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney
Image of 1973 reprint
Number: L148
Series No.: L148
Title: THE MEMOIRS OF CHATEAUBRIAND
Translated: selected and with an introduction, by Robert Baldick
Cover illustration: detail from A. L. Girodet's portrait of Chateaubriand in the Musèe de Versailles
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: January 1965
Pages: 432pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney
Price: 8/6d.
Number: L149
Series No.: L149
Title: THE POT OF GOLD AND OTHER PLAYS: The Pot of Gold, The Prisoners, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Swaggering Soldier, Pseudolus
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
Translated: by E. F. Watling
Cover illustration: detail from a Roman sarcophagus in the Louvre, Paris
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: June 1965
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney
Price: 6/-
Number: L150
Series No.: L150
Title: THE HISTORIES
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Translated: by Kenneth Wellesley
Cover illustration: detail from a frieze in the Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: November 1964
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman
Price: 6/-
Number: L151
Series No.: L151
Title: EUGENE ONEGIN
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Translated: by Babette Deutsch
Introduction: by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Cover illustration: shows a detail from a lithograph by Rudakov for 'Eugene Onegin'
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1964
Pages: 248pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L152
Series No.: L152
Title: THE FROGS AND OTHER PLAYS
Author: Aristophanes
Translated: and with an introduction by David Barrett
Cover illustration: shows a detail from a Greek marble relief, in the Louvre, Paris
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1964
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
Number: L153
Series No.: L153
Title: LIVES OF THE SAINTS
Translated: and with an introduction by J. F. Webb
Cover illustration: shows 'Athelstan presenting the Book to St Cuthbert from Bede' unknown artist (a master of Wincester School)
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/-
Number: L154
Series No.: L154
Title: THE VINLAND SAGAS - THE NORSE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (Grænlendinga Saga and Erik's Saga)
Translated: and with an introduction by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson
Illustration: includes 4 pages of maps
Cover illustration: shows an axehead from the grave of a Viking chief
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price:
Image of 1975 reprint (price: 40p)
Number: L155
Series No.: L155
Title: CLASSICAL LITERARY CRITICISM (Aristotle: On the Art of Poetry; Horace: On the Art of Poetry; Longinus: On the Sublime)
Author: Aristotle, Horace, Longinus
Translated: and with an introduction by T. S. Dorsch
Cover illustration: shows detail from a relief 'Souvetaurilis', Louvre, Paris
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Image of 1967 reprint
Number: L156
Series No.: L156
Title: THE BROTHERS AND OTHER PLAYS
Author: Terence
Translated: and with an introduction by Betty Radice
Cover illustration: shows a Graeco-Roman portrait of a young man, National Gallery, London
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
Number: L157
Series No.: L157
Title: POEMS OF THE LATE T'ANG
Translated: and with an introduction by Angus Charles Graham
Cover illustration: shows detail of a Chinese silk painting of the 8th to 10th century with the young Buddha practising archery
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Image of 1977 reprint, with additional preface (printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd; pages: 176pp. price: 60p)
Number: L158
Series No.: L158
Title: MAKERS OF ROME: Nine Lives by Plutarch (Coriolanus, Fabius Maximus, Marcellus, Cato the Elder, Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Sertorius, Brutus, Mark Antony)
Author: Plutarch
Translated: by Ian Scott-Kilvert
Illustration: includes 4 pages of maps
Cover illustration: shows detail from 'Antony and Cleopatra' by Tiepolo, National Gallery of Scotland
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Number: L159
Series No.: L159
Title: THE SATYRICON and THE FRAGMENTS
Author: Petronius
Translated: and with an introduction by John Sullivan
Cover illustration: shows part of a 2nd century Roman mosaic, Louvre, Paris
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/-
Number: L160
Series No.: L160
Title: COUSIN BETTE, Part One of Poor Relations
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Translated: from the French by Marion Ayton Crawford
Cover illustration: shows detail from 'La Lecture' by Fantin-Latour
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Pages: 448pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Number: L161
Series No.: L161
Title: A WOMAN'S LIFE
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Translated: from the French by H. N. P. Sloman
Cover illustration: shows detail of a painting by H. de Breval
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: May 1965
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/-
Number: L162
Series No.: L162
Title: TIMAEUS
Author: Plato
Translated: from the Greek with an introduction by Sir Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee
Cover illustration: shows detail of a fresco depitcting Plato and Aristotle by Raphael
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: August 1965
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: L163
Series No.: L163
Title: THE UPANISHADS
Translated: from the Sanskrit with an introduction by Juan Mascaró
Cover illustration: shows architectural detail (Upayapur) of period between 9th and 13th centuries
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1965
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price:
Also published in the USA by Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland; price 95c
Number: L164
Series No.: L164
Title: LIVES OF THE ARTISTS, VOL. 1
Author: Giorgio Vasari
Translated: by George Bull
Cover illustration: shows detail froma painting of Florence by the author
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 478pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price:
Number: L165
Series No.: L165
Title: UTOPIA
Author: Sir Thomas More (Saint)
Translated: from the Latin with an introduction by Paul Turner
Cover illustration: shows detail from 'The Construction of the Tower of Babel' probably by Hendrick van Cleve III
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 154pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price:
Also published in the USA by Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland; price 95c
Number: L166
Series No.: L166
Title: THE POEMS OF PROPERTIUS
Translated: from the Latin with an introduction by Albert Everett Watts
Cover illustration: shows Graeco-Roman ornamented handle depicting the birth of Venus
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: September 1966
Pages: 236pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L167
Series No.: L167
Title: PEER GYNT, A DRAMATIC POEM
Author: Henrik Johan Ibsen
Translated: with an introduction from the Dano-Norwegian by Peter Watts
Cover illustration: shows portrait of Ibsen by Vallotton
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L168
Series No.: L168
Title: CARMEN/COLOMBA
Author: Prosper Mérimée
Translated: with an introduction from the French by Edward Marielle
Cover illustration: shows 'La Robe' by Hubert Robert
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: November 1965
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L169
Series No.: L169
Title: FOURTEEN BYZANTINE RULERS: the Chronographia of Michael Psellus
Author: Michael Psellus
Translated: from the Greek with an introduction by Edgar Robert Ashton Sewter
Cover illustration: shows a detail from the shroud of Saint Germain
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: February 1966
Pages: 396pp + 2pp. maps
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9/6d.
Number: L170
Series No.: L170
Title: THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN
Author: Geoffrey of Monmouth
Translated: and edited from the Latin with an introduction by Lewis G. M. Thorpe
Cover illustration: shows detail of King Arthur fighting, from a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: March 1966
Pages: 376pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
Number: L171
Series No.: L171
Title: PENSÉES
Author: Blaise Pascal
Translated: from the French with an introduction by A. J. Krailsheimer
Cover illustration: shows a combination of Pascal's portrait and death mask
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: April 1966
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price:
Number: L172
Series No.: L172
Title: THE EARLIEST ENGLISH POEMS
Edited: by Michael Alexander
Cover illustration: shows detail of the Franks Casket
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 162pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
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Number: L173
Series No.: L173
Title: RAMEAU'S NEPHEW and D'ALEMBERT'S DREAM
Author: Denis Diderot
Translated: with an inttroduction by L. W. Tancock
Cover illustration: shows portarit of Rameau by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L174
Series No.: L174
Title: FOUR TRAGEDIES AND OCTAVIA
Author: Seneca
Translated: and with an introduction by E. F. Watling
Cover illustration: shows bronze head of Seneca (Louvre, Paris)
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L175
Series No.: L175
Title: A HISTORY OF MY TIMES
Author: Xenophon
Translated: by Rex Warner
Cover illustration: shows detail of the Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages:
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Number: L176
Series No.: L176
Title: A HERO OF OUR TIME
Author: Mikhael Lermontov
Translated: from Russian by Paul Foote
Cover illustration: watercolour portrait of Lermontov
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages:
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price:
Number: L177
Series No.: L177
Title: REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE
Author: Julian of Norwich
Translated: with an introduction from Middle English by Clifton Wolters
Cover illustration: from the Amesbury Psalter
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price:
Number: L178
Series No.: L178
Title: MY CHILDHOOD
Author: Maxim Gorky:
Translated: from Russian by Ronald Wilks
Cover illustration: shows nineteenth-century Russian lithograph
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 236pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price:
Number: L179
Series No.: L179
Title: THE GAMBLER / BOBOK / A NASTY STORY
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translated: with an introduction from Russian by Jessie Coulson
Cover illustration: 'Within the Dream' by Redon
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L180
Series No.: L180
Title: THE POEMS OF CATALLUS
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus
Translated: from Latin by Peter Whigham
Cover illustration: shows portrait of Artemidorus from Hawara, Egypt
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L181
Series No.: L181
Title: MIAU
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Translated: from Spanish and with an introduction by J. M. Cohen
Cover illustration: shows a deatil from'A Spaniard in Paris' by H. Evenepoel
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L182
Series No.: L182
Title: THE SECRET HISTORY
Author: Procopius of Caesarea
Translated: with an introduction from Latin by G. A. Williamson
Cover illustration: shows a marble head of the Empress Theodora
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price:
Number: L183
Series No.: L183
Title: KING HARALD'S SAGA
Author: Snorri Sturluson
Translated: with an introduction from Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson
Cover illustration: shows a detail from the Baldishol Tapestry, Hedmark, Norway
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages:
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price:
Number: L184
Series No.: L184
Title: RESURRECTION
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Translated: with an introduction from Russian by Rosemary Edmonds
Cover illustration: for original book by Leonid Pasternak
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 562pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 10/6d.
Number: L185
Series No.: L185
Title: THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH AND OTHER TRAVEL SKETCHES
Author: Matsuo Bashō
Translated: with an introduction from Japanese by Nobuyuki Yuasa
Cover illustration: shows portrait of Bashō from Itsuo Museum, Osaka
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1966
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L186
Series No.: L186
Title: SKETCHES FROM A HUNTER'S ALBUM
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Translated: from Russian by Richard Freeborn
Cover illustration: shows a Russian engraving from a nineteenth century popular song sheet
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price:
Number: L187
Series No.: L187
Title: THE CIVIL WAR - together with The Alexandrian War, The African War, and the Spanish War by other Hands
Author: Julius Caesar
Translated: with an introduction from Latin by Jane F. Mitchell
Cover illustration: shows a Roman coin
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 362pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Number: L188
Series No.: L188
Title: THE ODES OF HORACE
Author: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
Translated: with an introduction from Latin by James Michie
Cover illustration: shows a Roman fresco depicting young girl with flowers
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 286pp
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price:
Number: L189
Series No.: L189
Title: THE GOLDEN CASKET: CHINESE NOVELLAS OF TWO MILLENNIA
Translated: by Christopher Levenson from Wolfgang Bauer's and Herbert Franke's German version of the original Chinese
Introduction: by Herbert Franke
Cover illustration: 'Chinese Makimeno' by Chu Chuan Kung Huar Chou
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 10/6d.
Number: L190
Series No.: L190
Title: EFFI BRIEST
Author: Theodor Fontane
Translated: with an introduction from German by Douglas Parmée
Cover illustration: 'Die Schwester des Künstlers im Wohnzimmer' by Adolphe von Menzel
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L191
Series No.: L191
Title: PHORMIO AND OTHER PLAYS
Author: Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
Translated: from Latin and with an introduction by Betty Radice
Cover illustration: shows a deatil from a Roman fresco (The Louvre, Paris)
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: L192
Series No.: L192
Title: THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER
Author: Baldassare Castiglione, Count of Casatico
Translated: from Italian by George Bul
Cover illustration: shows portrait of Castiglione by Raphael
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages:
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Number: L193
Series No.: L193
Title: THE CHARACTERS / MENANDER: PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS
Author: Tyrtamus (Theophrastus)
Translated: from Greek by Philip Vellacott
Cover illustration: shows a comedy scene from a Pompeian relief
Date Published: 1967
Pages:
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Number: L194
Series No.: L194
Title: THE SIXTEEN SATIRES
Author: Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal)
Translated: with an introduction from Latin by Peter Green
Cover illustration: shows a Pompeian comedy scene
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages:
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Number: L195
Series No.: L195
Title: ANDROMACHE AND OTHER PLAYS
Author: Jean-Baptiste Racine
Translated: from French by John Cairncross
Cover illustration: shows 'Andromache weeping over Hector's funeral urn' by Jacques Gamelin
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L196
Series No.: L196
Title: THE PROVINCIAL LETTERS
Author: Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte
Translated: with an introduction from French by A. J. Krailsheimer
Cover illustration: shows detail from 'Abbey of Port Royal' by Madeleine Boullongne
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price:
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Number: L197
Series No.: L197
Title: EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS - The Apostolic Fathers
Translated: by Maxwell Staniforth
Cover illustration: shows St James from a manuscript of Acts and Epistles
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1968
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: L198
Series No.: L198
Title: POEMS FROM THE SANSKRIT
Translated: from Sanskrit by John Brough
Cover illustration: shows a mural from Ajanta (Gupta period)
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1968
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
Number: L199
Series No.: L199
Title: ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE
Translated: from Japanese by Donald Keene
Cover illustration: silk painting of a Zen monk riding a donkey by Unkoku Toteki
Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick
Date Published: 1968
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