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Penguin Portrait Steve Hare

Penguin Portrait By Steve Hare

Penguin Portrait by Steve Hare


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Summary

Published to mark the 60th anniversary of Penguin books in 1995, this book covers the period of Penguin's history while it was under the direct control of Sir Allen Lane. It is based largely on the Penguin archive files that comprises correspondence between authors, editors and Sir Allen Lane.

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Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-70 by Steve Hare

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Table of Contents

BEGINNINGS I935-1939: Myths of Creation - The Founding of Penguin Books; Allen Lane; Richard and John Lane; Eunice Frost; Bill Williams; Pelican Books; Bernard Shaw; Penguin Specials; Numeracy. PENGUIN AT WAR 1939-I945: Sixpenny Immortality; It's This Beastly War; George Orwell and Penguin; For the Forces; Prisoners of War; A.S.B. Glover; Noel Carrington; Eleanor Graham; Penguins Arrive in America; Foreplay. RECONSTRUCTION AND CONSOLIDATION 1946-1960: Mass-Observation; Hiroshima; Penguin Periodicals; Rieu and the Classics; Robert Graves and The Golden Ass; Dorothy L. Sayers and Dante; Pevsner and The Buildings of England; Misprints; An Auden Selection; Triffids; Bosoms and Bottoms; Obscene Libel; Lady Chatterley's Lover. A NEW GENERATION 1960-1970: Tony Godwin; Poison Penguin; The Lucky Country; Britain in the Sixties; Has Man a Future?; Tony Richardson and the Liberal Arts; Kaye Webb and Puffin Books; Penguin English Library; Betty Radice and Penguin Classics; Penguin Education; The Paperback Commodity; Massacre; Allen Lane The Penguin Press; The Village Book; Life After Godwin; Lanesday - The Penguin Ulysses; Allen Lane - The Final Years.

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GOR002354790
9780140238525
0140238522
Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-70 by Steve Hare
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19950706
384
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