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Pelican Books is a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books [1] founded by Allen Lane and V. K. Krishna Menon. [2] It publishes inexpensive paperbacks of academic topics intended to reach a broader audience. The imprint originally operated from 1937 to 1984, [3] and was relaunched in April 2014. [4] [5]
Penguin's English edition of Yuri Krimov's novel The Tanker "Derbent". The Second World War saw Penguin emerge as a national institution. Though it had no formal role in the war effort, it was integral to it thanks to the publication of such bestselling manuals as Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps and Aircraft Recognition, and supplying books for the services and British POWs.
The Pelican History of England is multi-volume, multi-author work published by the Pelican non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books between 1950 and 1965. It was edited by Jack Morpurgo (1918–2000). [ 1 ]
In 1942, he edited A Book of English Essays, and in 1957 an enlarged edition. In 1956 he published The Penguin Story MCMXXXV–MCMLVI , [ 8 ] a history of Penguin Books up to that date, and in 1961 he edited The Reader's Guide , [ 9 ] a guide to the best books across all fields of knowledge and interest.
Pelican Publishing Company is a book publisher based in Elmwood, Louisiana, with a New Orleans postal address. [1] It was acquired in 2019 by Arcadia Publishing, a leading publisher of local and regional content in the United States. [2] Pelican publishes approximately 60 titles per year and maintains a backlist of over 2,500 books. [3]
The name "Puffin" was a natural companion to the existing "Penguin" and "Pelican" books. Many continued to be reprinted right into the 1970s. A fiction list soon followed, when Puffin secured the paperback rights to Barbara Euphan Todd's 1936 story Worzel Gummidge and brought it out as the first Puffin story book in 1941. [4]
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The paperback venture was extremely successful, and he expanded into other areas such as Pelican Books in 1937, Puffin Books in 1940 and the Penguin Classics series in 1945. Lane was responsible for the decision to publish an unexpurgated edition of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley's Lover as a means of testing the Obscene Publications Act 1959 .
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