Hesperus Press
| Founded | 2001 |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | 28 Mortimer Street, London W1W 7RD |
| Distribution | BookSource (UK) Trafalgar Square Publishing (US) Nationwide Book Distributors (New Zealand) APD Singapore (Singapore) Jordan Book Center (Middle East)[1] |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
Hesperus Press is an independent publishing house based in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2001. The publisher's motto, "Et Remotissima Prope," is a Latin phrase which means "Bringing near what is far".[2] Hesperus Press has published some 300 works[3] by both classic and contemporary authors, including: Dante, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Tolstoy, Woolf, Annie Dillard, and Aldous Huxley. Their series include: Hesperus Classics, Brief Lives, Poetic Lives, ON, Modern Voices, and Hesperus Worldwide.[4] Hesperus is also responsible for the best-seller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson, released in July 2012.
References
[edit]- ^ "Distribution". Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ^ W.B. Gooderham. "Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ "Hesperus Press titles". The Book Depository. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ "Hesperus Web - Home". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Mentioned in The New York Times
- Mentioned in The Guardian (Book Blog)
- Mentioned in London Evening Standard
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man mentioned in The Guardian
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man mentioned in the Jordan Times Archived 20 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Dickens' Women mentioned in The Telegraph
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