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Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Author: Arthur John
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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"This study is basically the story of a great American magazine in its greatest years - the magazine that began as Scribner's Monthly in 1870 and became the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in 1881." -- Preface.

Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020

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Author: Charles Scribner III
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493079980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Scribners tells the inside story of five generations—over 150 years—at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and down to the present day. The author, the fifth of the Charleses to work at that house of celebrated authors, provides here an inside view—"between the covers" of illustrious and notorious books—of the family members, editors, and authors of this colorful literary history. Among the writers who illuminate this story, we find in the early years Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, and the artists Charles Dana Gibson, N. C. Wyeth, and Maxfield Parrish, who illustrated Scribner's Magazine as well as Scribner books. Then with the arrival of "editor of genius" Max Perkins, the story takes off into the heights of twentieth-century fiction with Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Marcia Davenport, Alan Paton, James Jones and—above all—Ernest Hemingway, that most loyal and enduring author whose works were published by four generations of Scribners. Famous children's classics The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, and The Yearling also take their place of honor in the firm's contribution to new generations of readers. This engaging personal account of family history—both in and out of the office—includes the most colorful controversies: from Mussolini and Trotsky to Lindbergh and C. P. Snow, as well as behind-the-scenes adventures of the author's father as he navigated the seas with industry storms and publishing corsairs before finding a safe harbor at Macmillan and finally, after the demise of tycoon Robert Maxwell, Simon & Schuster. The author, an art historian, found himself for thirty years in the company of writers by "an accident of birth." But it proved an adventure beyond his reckoning, here told with the candor and informality of a family gathering, as well as with humor and affection for his father, P. D. James, Louis Auchincloss, Andrew Greeley, and other authors with whom he worked personally. As Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "If it wasn't life, it was magnificent."

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 988

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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 822

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Author: Jacob Riis
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 145850042X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: George Washington Goethals
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Jane Porter
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Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.