Reinhardt owned The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1987, and smaller publishers like The Nonesuch Press and Reinhardt Books. This account of his life contains stories about his authors, among them Graham Greene, G.B. Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and his actor friends, illuminating the trajectory of British publishing in the second half of the twentieth century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Prologue From Istanbul to London on the Orient Express Enemy Alien, Student, Spy The Accountants and George Bernard Shaw Nonesuch The Bodley Head Enter Director Graham Greene Charlie Chaplin: The Great Coup The Reinhardt-Greene Team Georgette Heyer The Bodley Head Books for Children From Bow Street to the World’s Bookshops Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Copyright Heady, Champagne Years Mistakes The Last Act Reinhardt Books Last Words Index
Über den Autor
JUDITH ADAMSON is the author of several books, including
Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge and
Charlotte Haldane: Woman Writer in a Man’s World, a biography of JBS Haldane’s first wife. She selected and introduced the essays in Graham Greene’s acclaimed last book,
Reflections, and edited and introduced
Love Letters: Leonard Woolf& Trekkie Ritchie Parsons. She is Professor of English at Dawson College, Montreal, Canada.
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