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November 29, 2012 - Alyssa O'connell

Notes from the Undergrad: The Penguin Illustrated Collapse

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: A Sentimental Journey, Allen Lane, Alyssa O’Connell, Books, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Hermes, Gulliver’s Travels, Gustave Flaubert, Harold Nicolson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Janine Barchas, John Lane, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Madam Bovary, Notes from the Undergrad, Oscar Wilde, paperbacks, Penguin Illustrated Classics, Penguin Paperbacks, Pride and Prejudice, Publishing, Richard Jefferies, Robert Browning, Robinson Crusoe, Selected Poems, Some Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Bodley Head, The Sphinx, The Story of My Heart, Typee, Undergraduate, Walden, Why Britain is at War

Alyssa O’Connell is an English Honors junior in Professor Janine Barchas’s seminar, “The Paperback,” in which students used the Ransom Center’s collections to research the history of paperbacks.

August 9, 2012 - Jean Cannon

Penguin and the Paperback Revolution

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: A Farewell to Arms, Agatha Christie, Albatross Verlag, Aldine Press, Aldus Manutius, Allen Ginsberg, Allen Lane, Anchor Books, Armed Services Editions Collection, Charles Dickens, City Lights Pocket Bookshop, D. H. Lawrence, Dante Alighieri, dime novels, E.O. Lorimer, Edith Sitwell, Edward Gorey, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, George Sala, Gold Medal Books, Golden Cockerell Press, Have Gat—Will Travel, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Howl and Other Poems, J. Dicks, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Le terze rime di Dante, Malaeska the Indian Wife of the White Hunter, Mrs. Ann Stephens, Murder on the Orient Express, Oliver Twist, paperbacks, Penguin Books, Penguin Illustrated Classics, penny dreadfuls, Pocket Books, Publishing, pulp fiction, Richard S. Pranther, Robert Gibbings, Tauchnitz, Terrible Tales, The Case of the Velvet Claws, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism Capitalism Sovietism & Fascism, The Pickwick Club, Walden, What Hitler Wants, What Maisie Knew

Click on the four-way arrow in the bottom right-hand corner of the slideshow to convert into full-screen mode. According to popular mythology, the publisher Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, formulated his idea for a press dedicated exclusively to paperbacks while visiting a railway station. Having spent the weekend visiting… read more

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