George Allen & Unwin
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George Allen & Unwin

A Remembrancer

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

George Allen & Unwin

A Remembrancer

About this book

George Allen & Unwin as a publishing imprint reflected a cross-section of the intellectual achievement of the Twentieth Century.

In his Remembrancer, former Chairman Rayner Unwin traces the vicissitudes of his own time with the Company. It is a digressive and personal history, with reflections on the delights as well as the dangers of a style of publishing that is now fast vanishing.

He particularly focusses on his memories of publishing famous authors including:

• JRR Tolkien

• Thor Heyerdahl

• Bertrand Russell

• Roald Dahl

This frank and elegant publishing memoir covers the eventual take-over of the Company. A Remembrancer brings to life this sequence of events which led to the winding up of a distinguished firm.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Epigraph
  4. Preface: Some Reasons for Writing 
  5. 1: John Ruskin and George Allen
  6. 2: Museum Street in the Fifties
  7. 3: The Books of the Fifties
  8. 4: Publishing Tolkien (1)
  9. 5: Publishing Tolkien (2)
  10. 6: Problems of Succession
  11. 7: Overseas Markets
  12. 8: The Publishers’ Association
  13. 9: The Books of the Sixties and Seventies
  14. 10: The Last Lap
  15. By the Same Author
  16. Copyright

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