Obelisk [[electronic resource] ] : a history of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press / / Neil Pearson
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| Autore: |
Pearson Neil <1959->
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| Titolo: |
Obelisk [[electronic resource] ] : a history of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press / / Neil Pearson
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (540 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 070.5092 |
| 070.50944361 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Publishers and publishing - France - Paris - History - 20th century |
| Prohibited books - France - Paris - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Key to Reference Works; A Very British Pornographer: The Life of Jack Kahane; Bibliography of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press; Author Biographies; Picture Credits; Works Consulted; Index of Obelisk Authors |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press tells the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary publishing enterprises. Censor-baiting and provocative, a publisher of 'dirty books' as well as those of the literary elite, Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press was the first publisher of the early work of Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell and Anaïs Nin, and its roster of authors also included James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington and Cyril Connolly. Kahane subsidised his highbrow literary endeavours by pumping out cheap erotica, trash fiction produced by long-forgotten ec |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Obelisk |
| ISBN: | 1-78138-783-4 |
| 1-84631-368-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453861403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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