Penguin Special: The Story of Allen Lane, the Founder of Penguin Books and the Man Who Changed Publishing Forever by Jeremy Lewis

Penguin Special: The Story of Allen Lane, the Founder of Penguin Books and the Man Who Changed Publishing Forever

Jeremy Lewis

448 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction business history informative slow-paced
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�A masterly account of publishing in the twentieth century . . . A brilliant soap opera.� �New Statesman (London) The founding of Penguin Books in 1935 revolutionized the publishing industry with the idea that great writing ought to be made avail...

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