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According to Professor Rice, the home of the penguin and the albatross "would be a pleasant place to spend a vacation," and while shivering New Englanders await the advent of spring, he tells us that the summer temperature of the unexplored continent "often rises above freezing...
HOMER: THE ODYSSEY-A New Translation by E. V. Rieu (31 I pp.)-Penguin Books...
...public is getting this classic job for two bits because eleven years ago a young Englishman named Allen Lane decided that the people who shopped at Woolworth's would just as soon buy good literature as bad. Penguin Books, London, which he founded, was enormously successful, at first with reprints, then with new books. Recently Lane hired Scholar Rieu to edit a series of classics in new translations. This is his first, and it is good...
...translation of the Iliad by Rieu is also coming; so are Sophocles, Xenophon, Theocritus and Tacitus. Penguin has entrusted mystery writer Dorothy Sayers with The Divine Comedy. Turgenev, Gorki and Ibsen will also get badly needed fresh coats of English...
...Penguin Books in the U.S., financially independent of English Penguins but closely tied editorially, has never come close to the sales of its two-bit rivals, Pocket Books and Bantam Books. In seven years, Pocket Books has sold 152 million books in the U.S., by a canny formula of catering to mystery-story and drugstore novel addicts, with a slim proportion of "prestige" books. Only last month Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre became the first U.S. Penguin to sell a million copies. But Penguin, along with a smattering of mysteries, has consistently put out first-rate...