Blanche Knopf
asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET
replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise...
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Katherine Mansfield
The edition from Knopf
, New York, October 1924, was titled The Little Girl.
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Simone de Beauvoir
This translation remained standard for a long time: later re-issues include one from Vintage
in 1989 with an introduction by Deirdre Bair
, and one from David Campbell
in 1993 with an introduction by Margaret Crosland
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Elizabeth Taylor
Knopf
had serious reservations about this novel, and in January 1953 ET
broke with them and went to Viking
instead, on the advice of Peter Davies
.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
258-61
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Freya Stark
FS
published, with John Murray
, East is West. In the United StatesAlfred A. Knopf
published this book as The Arab Island: The Middle East, 1939-1943.
It was dedicated to Derek Hill
, who had done for EB
her painting of Bowen's Court.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
271
The New York edition, Seven Winters and Afterthoughts, from Alfred A. Knopf
(EB
's regular...
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Willa Cather
On her travels in France in 1920 she had done research for this novel.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39.
Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xliv.
ix
It sold 30,000...
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Muriel Spark
That same year it was published in the USA by Knopf
(to whom MS
had moved from Lippincott
), and it also appeared in a condensed version in the Saturday Evening Post. It was...
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Storm Jameson
She followed these with other translations of his works: Horla and Other Stories (1925), and (with Ernest Boyd
) Eighty-Eight Short Stories (1930). All of these volumes were put out by Knopf
, the publisher...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
It sold nearly 5,000 copies in six weeks, a further acceleration of the high sales rate (for ICB
) of Elders and Betters.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.