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Five Generations in Publishing

By: Charles Scribner III

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Five Generations in Publishing

By: Charles Scribner III

Scribners tells the inside story of five generations—over 150 years—at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and down to the present day. The author, the fifth of the Charleses to work at that house of celebrated authors, provides here an inside view—"between the covers" of illustrious and notorious books—of the family members, editors, and authors of this colorful literary history. Among the writers who illuminate this story, we find in the early years Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, and the artists Charles Dana Gibson, N. C. Wyeth, and Maxfield Parrish, who illustrated Scribner's Magazine as well as Scribner books. Then with the arrival of "editor of genius" Max Perkins, the story takes off into the heights of twentieth-century fiction with Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Marcia Davenport, Alan Paton, James Jones and—above all—Ernest Hemingway, that most loyal and enduring author whose works were published by four generations of Scribners. Famous children's classics The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, and The Yearling also take their place of honor in the firm's contribution to new generations of readers. This engaging personal account of family history—both in and out of the office—includes the most colorful controversies: from Mussolini and Trotsky to Lindbergh and C. P. Snow, as well as behind-the-scenes adventures of the author's father as he navigated the seas with industry storms and publishing corsairs before finding a safe harbor at Macmillan and finally, after the demise of tycoon Robert Maxwell, Simon & Schuster. The author, an art historian, found himself for thirty years in the company of writers by "an accident of birth." But it proved an adventure beyond his reckoning, here told with the candor and informality of a family gathering, as well as with humor and affection for his father, P. D. James, Louis Auchincloss, Andrew Greeley, and other authors with whom he worked personally. As Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "If it wasn't life, it was magnificent.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493079980

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9781493079988

The Shadow of God

A Journey Through Memory, Art, and Faith

By: Charles Scribner III

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The Shadow of God

A Journey Through Memory, Art, and Faith

By: Charles Scribner III

The Shadow of God is part memoir, part spiritual autobiography, and part tour of great works of art, literature, and music. In the form of a journal written over the course of a year, Charles Scribner shares childhood recollections of a household where figures like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were family friends. He tells stories from his own noteworthy publishing career, from his journey toward faith, and from his deep knowledge of Baroque art. Born an Episcopalian, he charts the story of his interior life and the importance of the arts in helping him choose the spiritual, emotional, and intellectual paths he would follow, including his Catholic conversion. He asks himself questions like “How far back can we trace the roots of faith?” Scribner writes with contagious enthusiasm about the pivotal truths he discovered in the novels of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh and the inspiration he found in art, music, opera, and the Bible. The Shadow of God is a journey through memory, art, and faith that shaped Scribner’s year as it passed through the seasons, from Epiphany to Epiphany. It is a moving portrait of a man who has devoted his life to words and the Word and a work of rare power by a writer whose grace, humor, and candor will touch readers.

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395

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Doubleday

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0307424111

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9780307424112

In the Web of Ideas

By: Charles Scribner

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By: Charles Scribner

Charles Scribner, Jr.’s thoughts and essays on publishing, his fascinating career, and the love of ideas. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of publishing.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439131716

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9781439131718

In the Company of Writers

A Life in Publishing

By: Charles Scribner

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In the Company of Writers

A Life in Publishing

By: Charles Scribner

It was “the golden age” of American literature. Max Perkins edited Hemingway and Fitzgerald, royalties were still calculated by hand, and business was usually based on personal ties between publisher and author. It was into this world that Charles Scribner, Jr. was born, his career predetermined at the time of his christening. He grew up in publishing and cut his editorial teeth on giants like Edmund Wilson, C.P. Snow, P.D. James and Charles Lindbergh. But towering above them all was Ernest Hemingway, whose friendship Scribner recalls with affection. “An elegant memoir of a publishing prince’s lifelong devotion to great books.” —A.Scott Berg

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Simon and Schuster

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1451602960

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Sacred Muse

A Preface to Christian Art & Music

By: Charles Scribner III

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Sacred Muse

A Preface to Christian Art & Music

By: Charles Scribner III

This small book provides an introduction to the rich and variegated subject of Christian currents through art and music down the ages, from Early Christian art to the present. It is personal and selective in its focus on favorite major artists and their subjects as exemplars of a wide range of sacred themes. The author’s lifelong professional focus on the Baroque giants Rubens and Bernini, along with the revolutionary Caravaggio, is evident in the central place they claim as he places them in the context of the broader tradition: medieval art, Michelangelo, Titian, Bellini, Rembrandt, Tiepolo, and other giants of the Renaissance and Baroque. Scribner’s focus is decidedly European—not global. The masters of music will be equally familiar to readers and listeners: from Palestrina and Vivaldi to Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Verdi down to the 20th century. It is intended to be protreptic, something that will encourage and spur on the reader—teacher, student, amateur alike—to pursue her or his own explorations in periods and artists that likewise hold special appeal. Includes 45 color and b&w illustrations.

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1538178621

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Confessions of a Caricaturist

By: Charles Scribner’s Sons

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Confessions of a Caricaturist

By: Charles Scribner’s Sons

Reproduction of the original: Confessions of a Caricaturist by Charles Scribner’s Sons

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3752369248

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Confessions of a Caricaturist

By: Oliver, Charles Scribner’s Sons Herford

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Confessions of a Caricaturist

By: Oliver, Charles Scribner’s Sons Herford

Reproduction of the original: Confessions of a Caricaturist by Charles Scribner’s Sons Oliver Herford

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The Shadow of God

A Journey Through Memory, Art, and Faith

By: Charles Scribner III

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A Journey Through Memory, Art, and Faith

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Scribners

Five Generations in Publishing

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Sacred Muse

A Preface to Christian Art & Music

By: Charles Scribner III

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A Preface to Christian Art & Music

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In the Web of Ideas

By: Charles Scribner

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Charles Scribner, Jr.’s thoughts and essays on publishing, his fascinating career, and the love of ideas. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of publishing.

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Home by Another Route

A Journal of Art, Music, and Faith

By: Charles Scribner III

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A Journal of Art, Music, and Faith

By: Charles Scribner III

In this spiritual journal written over the course of a year, the author reflects throughout the liturgical seasons on the serendipitous interweaving of music, art, and faith in daily life.

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Paulist Press

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1587686414

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A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real and Personal Property in the State of New York. With an Appendix of Forms

By: Abner Charles Thomas

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A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real and Personal Property in the State of New York. With an Appendix of Forms

By: Abner Charles Thomas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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338554114X

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The Shadow of God

The Shadow of God

In the Web of Ideas

In the Web of Ideas

In the Company of Writers

In the Company of Writers

Sacred Muse

Sacred Muse

Confessions of a Caricaturist

Confessions of a Caricaturist

Confessions of a Caricaturist

Confessions of a Caricaturist

The Shadow of God

The Shadow of God

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Scribners

Sacred Muse

Sacred Muse

In the Web of Ideas

In the Web of Ideas

Home by Another Route

Home by Another Route

A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real and Personal Property in the State of New York. With an Appendix of Forms

A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real and Personal Property in the State of New York. With an Appendix of Forms

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