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(0)Charles Scribner
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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Scribners tells the inside story of five generations-more than 150 years-at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and 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'...
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Series
NBSIR volume 86-3467
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Pub. Date
1987.
Author
Series
NBSIR volume 87-3640
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Pub. Date
1987.
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Series
Description
A worldwide best-seller when it was first published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, it is also the story of a land and a people driven by racial injustice. The book is written with such
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