James and the Giant Peach: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)-Quality Guarantee

Description

A stunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl’s beloved James and the Giant Peach, featuring

—a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

—cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane

—the original interior art from the 1961 first edition

—French flaps and deckle-edged paper

James and the Giant Peach is a perennial bestseller about a boy’s magical journey across thesea, by one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts, isgiven magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops themat the foot of the peach tree outside his house, causing one of thefruits to grow the size of a house. Inside he finds oversized insectswho promise him deliverance from his aunts, and soon the giant peach isrolling downhill, bound for the Atlantic Ocean and beyond on amagnificent adventure that will take James and his new friends farindeed.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.