Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970 by Steve Hare

Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970

Steve Hare

368 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Although founded at what seemed to be the worst of times - in a period of deep recession and with war looming - Allen Lane's gamble succeeded magnificently. Penguin made books a truly mass medium for the first time. With Allen Lane as the energeti...

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