Word: penguin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explain the promotional muscle being flexed behind yet another translation of Homer's Odyssey, this one provided by Princeton professor Robert Fagles (Viking; 541 pages; $35)? Why expect people to pay $45 for a boxed set of tapes (issued by Penguin Audiobooks) on which the British actor Ian McKellen reads the text of Fagles' translation over a listening time of some 13 hours...
...Doubtful Guest," for example, one of Gorey's more charming tales, is about a silent, penguin-like creature who rings the doorbell of a family's home and refuses to leave. The passivity with which the genteel family accepts the intruder--despite his repeated attempts to eat the gramophone--typifies Gorey's stylized and subdued world...
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice costs $7.95 at the Coop for the Penguin Classics edition, whereas the Dover edition at Wordsworth books costs only...
...just me, or does the illustration you ran of Perot and a photo showing him in profile also remind others of the Penguin character in Batman? DON MOSS Springfield, Illinois...
...rest, and though it is customary to say of concluding novels that they can be read independently, this is emphatically not true of the Buru Quartet, whose first three volumes, including Child of All Nations and Footsteps, have just been republished in paperback by Penguin...