Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane Book

The founding of Penguin Books in 1935 revolutionized the publishing industry with the idea that great writing ought to be made available for the price of a pack of cigarettes. In telling the story of Penguin and its founder, Allen Lane, Jeremy Lewis traces the changes the company wrought in cultural and political life in England and in the publishing industry worldwide, from the publication of Ulysses, with its attendant obscenity trial, to the Penguin Specials that alerted prewar Britain to the Nazi threat. Rich with anecdote and suffused with Lane?s larger-than-life personality, Penguin Special touches on the entire twentieth century in its portrait of a man and a company that have changed the way the English-speaking world reads.Read More

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  • 0141024615
  • 9780141024615
  • Jeremy Lewis
  • 28 March 2006
  • Penguin Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 448
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