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Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-70 By

Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-70 By

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Book Title: Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-70 By

Item Height: 206mm

Item Width: 134mm

Author: Steve Hare

Publication Name: Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-70

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Subject: Journalism,History

Publication Year: 1995

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 444g

Number of Pages: 384 Pages

Although founded at what seemed to be the worst of times - in a period of deep recession and with war looming - Allen Lane's gamble succeeded magnificently. Penguin made books a truly mass medium for the first time. With Allen Lane as the energetic catalyst, an extraordinarily talented band of editors presided over the growth of the Penguin list - Pelicans, Penguin Specials, Penguin Classics, Puffins, the Buildings of England series - which has since formed part of the reading experience of almost everyone.

This book, drawn directly from the editorial archive and first-hand accounts, charts the formative Penguin years with correspondence to and from authors like Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Graham Greene and Robert Graves, and through the publishing events that made the newspaper headlines, most famously the Lady Chatterley trial in the 1960s.

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