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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]
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]
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.
New American Library (NAL) began life as Penguin U.S.A. and as part of Penguin Books of England. Because of complexities of exchange control and import and export regulations—Penguin made the decision to terminate the association, and the company was renamed the New American Library of World Literature in 1948 [1] when Penguin Books' assets (excluding the Penguin and Pelican trademarks) were ...
In the late 1930s, Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, wished to create a new line, to be called "Pelican" books, which would be dedicated to publishing clear expositions of current social debates. He desired that Shaw's Intelligent Woman's Guide should become the first in that series.
The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse was first published in 1942 as Anthology of Canadian Poetry (English) under the Pelican Books imprint. [citation needed] Edited by Canadian poet Ralph Gustafson, revised and expanded editions were published in 1958, [1] 1967 and 1984.
Penguin in Print (2003), compiled by Tim Graham, is a bibliography of printed material about Penguin Books with numerous extracts and colour illustrations [112 pages]. The Penguin Modern Painters: A History (2001) by Carol Peaker examines the Penguin Modern Painters series of monographs that were published in 1944–59. [ 4 ]
Transworld is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups.It was established in 1950 as the British division of American company Bantam Books. [1]