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This essential guide, now available in a fully updated new edition, is the only available study of allbestselling books, authors and genres sincethe startof the last century, giving an unique insight intoa hundred years of publishing and readingand taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements to the First Edition
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- 1 Origins, Problems and Philosophy of the Bestseller
- 2 How the British Read
- 3 Genre: History and Form
- 4 Literature for Children
- 5 Further Thoughts on Literature for Children
- 6 Best-selling Authors Since 1900
- Appendix 1 Number of individuals out of every 1000 who could not sign their name on a marriage register: 1896ā1907
- Appendix 2 Extract from Beatrice Harraden, 'What Our Soldiers Read', Cornhill Magazine, vol. XLI (Nov. 1916)
- Appendix 3 Booksellers from whose returns the Bookseller compiled its bestseller list during the 1930s and 1940s under the title 'What the Other Fellow is Selling'
- Appendix 4 From the Mass Observation Archive (ref. FR 2537): 'Reading in Tottenham, November 1947'
- Appendix 5 From Mills and Boon, 'A FINE ROMANCEā¦ is hard to find!'
- Appendix 6 British Library loans 1987ā8, showing the top 100 authors as recorded by the Bookseller (13 July 1990)
- Appendix 7 Comparative library loans between 1988 and 1998 by genre (source: Public Lending Right, 1999.)
- Appendix 8 Waterstone's and Channel 4's survey to discover the greatest books of the twentieth century (1996): the following are the top works of fiction
- Appendix 9 Which companies owned what imprints at the end of the twentieth century (source: Key Note, 1999.)
- Appendix 10 From the Bookseller (Web page: 20 Dec. 1999)
- Appendix 11 Comparative paperback bestseller lists showing relative change over the last decade of the twentieth century (source: Writers' and Artists' Yearbook, 2001.)
- Appendix 12 World Book Day 2000 Poll to find Britain's favourite writers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Title Index