The Maverick

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3 ediciones

The Maverick

Editorial: w_n

ISBN: 978-14-7462-110-6

ISBN sin guiones: 9781474621106

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2024-08-29

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Maverick

Editorial: w_n

ISBN: 978-14-7462-111-3

ISBN sin guiones: 9781474621113

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2023-08-31

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Maverick

Editorial: w_n

ISBN: 978-13-9960-641-7

ISBN sin guiones: 9781399606417

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2023-08-31

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Maverick

Thomas Harding

Primera publicación: 2023-08-31

After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita, Double Helix, The Group and The Hedgehog and the Fox, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy and Edna O'Brien to Henry Miller, Harold Wilson, Saul Bellow and Henry Kissinger. In this first biography, Thomas Harding provides a full, unvarnished and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character and crafts a portrait of the publisher's life that is inextricable from the efforts and intricacies of putting a book into the world. Structured around twenty books associated with George Weidenfeld, and intercut with explorations of contemporary concerns such as the right to publish, freedom of speech and separating the art from the artist, The Maverick tells the captivating story behind the life of this iconic publisher.