Random House

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing W. H. Auden
WHA published with Random House in New York a book of criticism entitled The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea; it appeared from Faber in London the following year.
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Publishing Carson McCullers
She began this novel during the extremely fertile year of 1939, under the title The Bride and Her Brother. She finished it in summer 1945, and declined an offer from Random House to publish...
Publishing W. H. Auden
WHA again published a critical book, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays, with Random House in New York the year before it appeared from Faber in London.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press.
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Publishing 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
Publishing Gertrude Stein
This publication was the result of a contract between Bennett Cerf of Random House and GS for a future, second autobiography. Cerf promised to publish all of GS 's works at the rate of one...
Publishing Elizabeth Bishop
EB began submitting the manuscript of a first collection of poems in 1939, only to have it summarily rejected in turn by Random House , Viking , and Simon and Schuster . Harcourt Brace offered...
Publishing Anita Desai
AD 's Collected Stories were published by Random House India in 2008.
Publishing Alice Walker
AW 's usual publishers, Random House , were put off by the spirituality that drives this book, and did not want to issue it.
Walker, Alice. “A Conversation with David Swick from <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Shambhala Sun</span> (2006)”. The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, The New Press, pp. 301-10.
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AW therefore went to the New Press instead.
Publishing Isak Dinesen
Again she wrote at Rungstedlund, first in English and then in Danish. She had her English manuscript conveyed in the diplomatic pouch of Sweden (a neutral country) to Random House in New York...
Reception Dodie Smith
When the first volume appeared, Michael Kennedy commented in his review in the Daily Telegraph that it was a book ready-made for a Woman's Hour serial (and that is meant as a compliment)
Kennedy, Michael. “Review of Dodie Smith, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Look Back with Love</span&gt”;. Daily Telegraph.
(11 July 1974)
Textual Features Mavis Gallant
MG was working on a biography of Alfred Dreyfus when she developed the idea for Linnet Muir. The biography, which she abandoned and burned after decades of work, had been commissioned by Random House after...
Textual Production H. D.
In 1929 Random House of New York printed 475 copies of HD's single-sheet, four-page poem, Red Roses for Bronze—which was also the title of her collection (nearly 150 pages) published in London by Chatto and Windus
Textual Production Laura Riding
Though LR had recently been publishing prose works in the USA as well as at London, she had issued no book of poems there since The Close Chaplet twelve years before.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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This volume...
Textual Production Maya Angelou
The events that led up to this book were the devastating murder of Martin Luther King and the success of MA 's tv series Black, Blues, Black. Then an editor at Random House suggested...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...

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Texts

Brookner, Anita. Falling Slowly. Random House, 1988.
Brookner, Anita. Incidents in the Rue Laugier. Random House, 1996.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Random House, 1997.
Gide, André. If It Die. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Random House, 1935.
Byrne, Paula. Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson. Random House, 2006.
Carson, Anne. Plainwater. Random House, 1995.
Dinesen, Isak. Ehrengard. Random House, 1962.
Dinesen, Isak. The Angelic Avengers. Random House, 1946.
Ellmann, Richard, editor. The Critic as Artist: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Random House, 1969.
Gallant, Mavis. The Pegnitz Junction. Random House, 1973.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
Jamie, Kathleen. The Golden Peak. Random House, 1990.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
McCarthy, Mary. The Oasis. Random House, 1949.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
Schapiro, Leonard Bertram. Turgenev, His Life and Times. Random House, 1978.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I. Random House, 2004.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II. Random House, 2004.
Shields, Carol. The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989.
Stead, Christina. Miss Herbert (the Suburban Wife). Random House, 1976.
Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946.
Stein, Gertrude. Everybody’s Autobiography. Random House, 1937.
Stein, Gertrude et al. Four Saints in Three Acts. Random House, 1934.
Stein, Gertrude. Ida. Random House, 1941.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, 1934.