Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950
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| Year of Publication |
1992
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English
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| Number of Pages |
284 pp.
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| Publisher |
Clarendon Press
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| City |
Oxford, England
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| ISBN |
9780198203292
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| Annotation |
Contents:
Popular reading and publishing, 1870-1914
'Books are a commodity' : the commercialization of popular fiction
'The quickest way out of Glasgow' : adult reading habits
'Take the place of valium' : Mills & Boon Ltd.
'We must prevent the leakage' : children's reading habits
'Get me the boy from the age of six' : D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.
'The public mind might be diverted' : the Religious Tract Society.
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