Best known for The Song of Bernadette (1941), which was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, Jewish writer Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was also the author of one of the most popular Book-of-the-Month Club titles ever, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. First released in 1933, the work is a historical novel based on the Turkish deportation and massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. Viking Press sold more than 34,000 copies of the 817-page novel, translated by Geoffrey Dunlop, in the first two weeks of its release. Three decades later, when David Godine was at BOMC in the late ’70s, he said that it was still selling briskly. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Best known for The Song of Bernadette (1941), which was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, Jewish writer Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was also the author of one of the most popular Book-of-the-Month Club titles ever, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. First released in 1933, the work is a historical... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Penguin Random House says it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels, after criticism of cuts and rewrites intended to make the books suitable for modern readers Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2023-02-24 14:04:19 UTC ]
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Publisher Penguin Random House says it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels, after criticism of cuts and rewrites intended to make the books suitable for modern readers Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2023-02-24 14:03:22 UTC ]
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Series will be released alongside controversially amended versions to leave readers ‘free to choose which version they prefer’A collection of Roald Dahl’s books with unaltered text is to be published after a row over changes made to novels including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-02-24 13:26:39 UTC ]
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This morning, in a press release, Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson announced the launch of McNally Editions, a new paperback reprint series “devoted to hidden gems.” “As any bookseller knows, recommending books is the most rewarding part of our job—especially when you get to take the reader off... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-08-26 14:41:45 UTC ]
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Interviews Since 2015, award-winning Restless Books publisher Ilan Stavans has been immersed in bringing the literary classics to new audiences through Restless Classics. These editions come with introductions by prominent diverse writers from around... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-05-12 15:41:23 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired two illustrated middle-grade fiction titles by debut author Radiya Hafiza. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-12 03:46:46 UTC ]
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Daunt Books Publishing is rush-publishing How to Cook a Wolf, MFK Fisher’s classic book on shopping, cooking and eating with courage during a crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-22 07:44:41 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House teams with TBWA and Barnes & Noble to launch #DiversityEditions for Black History Month. During the Pequod‘s last voyage in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick, Captain Ahab is 58 years old. Physically, he has a prosthetic leg made of whale bone, and a pale white mark or... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2020-02-05 09:00:42 UTC ]
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Ebury imprint W H Allen is to publish The Basic Laws of Stupidity by the late Italian economist Carlo M Cipolla for the first time in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-08 21:03:56 UTC ]
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Hamish Hamilton will publish “a lost classic of children's nature writing”, The House Without Windows, from 1927, to be introduced and illustrated by Jackie Morris. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-21 21:56:21 UTC ]
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Last year, for the first time ever, more money was spent advertising online than on traditional television. So why are digital publishers still struggling? Sponsored by Rumble. The post This classic economic theory could save the digital publishing business appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers balance heritage with modern themes to keep their evergreen licensed publishing programs fresh. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Otto Penzler's newest venture, Penzler Publishers, will publish print editions of classic detective stories from the golden age of of the genre, which ran from the end of World War I through World War II. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virago has acquired rights to publish a German classic novel, The Seventh Cross, by Anna Seghers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The rejuvenated line of comics releases graphic novel collections of the Justice League, the Flash, Nightwing, and Green Lanterns Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Press is to publish the first solo book from Henry Eliot, the editor-at-large of Penguin Classics and co-author of Curiocity (Particular Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children’s is releasing The Adventures of Bottersnikes and Gumbles, a collection of stories by S A Wakefield, to coincide with a new TV series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Publishing is to re-publish Dutch author Tim Krabbé’s cycling classic The Rider in June, with the aim of bringing it to a "whole new audience". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Major imprints ‘confident’ they can meet schools minister Nick Gibb’s challenge to inspire children with sets of canonical novels at ‘minimal cost’Classic novels such as Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre should be available in secondary schools for all pupils to read,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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