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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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 through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous
landmark bookstore 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."
This concise guide provides an introduction to the rich and
variegated subject of Christian currents through art and music down
the ages; it is personal in its focus on favorite major artists and
their subjects as examples of these sacred themes. The author’s
professional focus on the Baroque giants Rubens and Bernini, who
followed the revolutionary Caravaggio, explains—if not
justifies—the central place they claim in this study. Scribner,
author of numerous books on the arts, places them in the context of
the broader Christian tradition. The focus is admittedly
European—some might say Eurocentric—not global. His aim is to
offer a brief, illustrated book that may be read in one sitting. It
is intended to be protreptic, something that will encourage and
spur on the reader—teacher, student, amateur alike—to pursue
their own explorations in periods and artists that likewise hold
special appeal. The book will include 45 color and b&w
illustrations of great works of art.
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Yellow Butterflies (Hardcover)
Charles Scribners Sons, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Scribner Press
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R814
Discovery Miles 8 140
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