Bestsellers popular fiction since 1900
Origins, problems and philosophy of the bestseller. -- How the British read. -- Genre: history and form. -- Best-selling authors since 1900: an age passes, an age begins: 1900 to 1918. -- The interwar years: 1919 to the early 1930s. -- World War Two to Suez: the late 1930s to 1956. -- The paperback...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke u.a.
Palgrave Macmillan
2002
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Origins, problems and philosophy of the bestseller. -- How the British read. -- Genre: history and form. -- Best-selling authors since 1900: an age passes, an age begins: 1900 to 1918. -- The interwar years: 1919 to the early 1930s. -- World War Two to Suez: the late 1930s to 1956. -- The paperback years: 1957 to 1974. -- The last decades: 1975 to 1999. -- Appendix 1. Number of individuals out of every 1000 who could not sign their name on a marriage register: 1896-1907. -- Appendix 2. Extract from Beatrice Harraden, 'What our soldiers read', Cornhill Magazine, vol. XLI (Nov. 1916). - Appendix 3. Booksellers from whose returns the Bookseller compiled its bestseller list during the 1930s and 1940s under the title 'What the other fellow is selling'. -- Appendix 4. From the Mass Observation Archive (ref. FR 2537): 'Reading in Tottenham, November 1947'. -- Appendix 5. From Mills and Boon, 'A FINE ROMANCE... is hard to find'. -- Appendix 6. British Library loans 1987-8, showing the top 100 authors as recorded by the Bookseller (13 July 1990). -- Appendix 7. Comparative library loans between 1988 and 1998 by genre (source: Public Lending Right,1999). -- Appendix 8. Waterstone's and Channel 4's survey to discover the greatest books of the twentieth century (1996). -- Appendix 9. Which companies owned what imprints at the end of the twentieth century (source: Key Note,1999). -- Appendix 10. Helena Blakemore, 'Gender bias in publishing and reviewing'. -- Appendix 11. From the Bookseller (Web page: 20 Dec. 1999). -- Appendix 12. Comparative paperback bestseller lists showing relative change over the last decade of the twentieth century (source: Writers' and Artists' Yearbook, 2001). -- Appendix 13. World Book Day 2000 Poll to find Britain's favourite writers. Origins, problems and philosophy of the bestseller. -- How the British read. -- Genre: history and form. -- Best-selling authors since 1900: an age passes, an age begins: 1900 to 1918. -- The interwar years: 1919 to the early 1930s. -- World War Two to Suez: the late 1930s to 1956. -- The paperback years: 1957 to 1974. -- The last decades: 1975 to 1999. -- Appendix 1. Number of individuals out of every 1000 who could not sign their name on a marriage register: 1896-1907. -- Appendix 2. Extract from Beatrice Harraden, 'What our soldiers read', Cornhill Magazine, vol. XLI (Nov. 1916). - Appendix 3. Booksellers from whose returns the Bookseller compiled its bestseller list during the 1930s and 1940s under the title 'What the other fellow is selling'. -- Appendix 4. From the Mass Observation Archive (ref. FR 2537): 'Reading in Tottenham, November 1947'. -- Appendix 5. From Mills and Boon, 'A FINE ROMANCE... is hard to find'. -- Appendix 6. British Library loans 1987-8, showing the top 100 authors as recorded by the Bookseller (13 July 1990). -- Appendix 7. Comparative library loans between 1988 and 1998 by genre (source: Public Lending Right,1999). -- Appendix 8. Waterstone's and Channel 4's survey to discover the greatest books of the twentieth century (1996). -- Appendix 9. Which companies owned what imprints at the end of the twentieth century (source: Key Note,1999). -- Appendix 10. Helena Blakemore, 'Gender bias in publishing and reviewing'. -- Appendix 11. From the Bookseller (Web page: 20 Dec. 1999). -- Appendix 12. Comparative paperback bestseller lists showing relative change over the last decade of the twentieth century (source: Writers' and Artists' Yearbook, 2001). -- Appendix 13. World Book Day 2000 Poll to find Britain's favourite writers |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 264 - 270 |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 292 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780333687420 978-0-333-68742-0 9780333687437 978-0-333-68743-7 0333687426 0-333-68742-6 0333687434 0-333-68743-4 |