AM
provided a retrospection on her career with Selected Stories, published by Knopf
and by Penguin
, which includes twenty-eight pieces from the whole span of her writing so far.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart.
This collection had an unusually complex and tortuous history. At one point AM
intended it to contain two groups of stories, those centred on the main character, Rose, and others involving another woman named Janet...
Publishing
Alice Munro
Macmillan sold the book at $10.95 (a dollar higher than they had intended) and early in 1979 needed to supplement their first print-run of 8,500 with another 2,500 copies.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart.
McClelland and Stewart
's print run was 40,000 copies, and the Knopf
edition which followed on 14 November was of 100,000.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart.
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Toni Morrison
TM
published through Knopf
of New YorkThe Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. The same work appeared from Chatto and Windus
in London on 20 February under the title Mouth Full...
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Una Marson
In the 1950s, UM
struggled with a long, semi-autobiographical work entitled Everyday Life in Jamaica to be published by Knopf
, but this was never completed. In 1964, the year before she died, she received...
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Katherine Mansfield
The American edition (Knopf
, New York) followed in February 1924.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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Katherine Mansfield
The edition from Knopf
, New York, October 1924, was titled The Little Girl.
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Katherine Mansfield
The American edition (Knopf
, New York) came out the same year.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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Katherine Mansfield
The letters dated back as far as May 1913 and were somewhat sweetened in the editing,
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
388
but in many cases KM
's letters are known only from this text (also published by Knopf
,...
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Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin
suspects that this refusal had to do with KM
's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov
in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
Publishing
Katherine Mansfield
Most of the stories dated from several years before, and had been published in periodicals. An edition from Knopf
, New York, followed in January 1921.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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Publishing
Katherine Mansfield
She finished the title story on 14 October 1921, chose it as the title of the collection, and shortly afterwards planned a structure of alternating stories with New Zealand and London settings. The American edition...
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Katherine Mansfield
The American edition (Knopf
, New York) followed in just two months later.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
419
Publishing
Olivia Manning
She regarded this book as an exercise in learning how to sustain a long narrative.
English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Wind Changes, Virago, p. v - xvi.
ix
Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who was supportive and generous with praise of this book, also told OM
that her...
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Markus, Julia. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Knopf, 1995.
Moore, Marianne. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Editors Costello, Bonnie et al., Knopf, 1997.
Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. Knopf, 2008.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Knopf, 1987.
Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Knopf, 1992.
Morrison, Toni. Love. Knopf, 2003.
Morrison, Toni. Paradise. Knopf, 1998.
Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Knopf, 1977.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Knopf, 1981.
Morrison, Toni. The Dancing Mind. Knopf, 1996.
Morrison, Toni. The Source of Self-Regard. Knopf, 2019.