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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
Since her childhood days imagining a world populated with super-hero rabbits ...
From Doubleday
Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
1Origins, Problems and Philosophy of the Bestseller
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2How the British Read
29Literacy29Assessing literacy levels29Literacy in practice32Reading and the Influences of Cinema,Television and Radio35The Library System42Librarians, Sales and the Female Reader50Publishers55Building on an established market55The market for hardback books59The Paperback61Paperbacks and Pulp Fiction64Censorship70Contemporary Publishing74
3Genre: History and Form
85
4Best-selling Authors Since 1900
107
An Age Passes, an Age Begins: 1900 to 1918
110Florence L. Barclay110Arnold Bennett111 John Buchan112Edgar Rice Burroughs113Hall Caine114Marie Corelli116Arthur Conan Doyle117Charles Garvice118Elinor Glyn119Nat Gould120
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Robert Hichens122William Le Queux124W. J. Locke124A. E. W. Mason125E. Phillips Oppenheim126Baroness Orczy127Sax Rohmer128Effie A. Rowlands128Berta Ruck129Edgar Wallace130Dolf Wyllarde (Dorothy Lowndes)131
The Interwar Years: 1919 to the Early 1930s
132Agatha Christie132Warwick Deeping133Ethel M. Dell and Ruby M. Ayres134 Jeffrey Farnol135Sidney Horler136E. M. Hull137A. S. M. Hutchinson137 J. B. Priestley138W. Riley139Rafael Sabatini140Sapper (Herman Cyril McNeile)140Mary Webb141P. G. Wodehouse142P. C. Wren143
World War Two to Suez: The Late 1930s to 1956
144 James Hadley Chase144Peter Cheyney144 John Creasey145A. J. Cronin146Lloyd Douglas146Daphne du Maurier147C. S. Forester149Stephen Francis (Hank Janson)150Erle Stanley Gardner151William Golding151Georgette Heyer152 James Hilton153Hammond Innes154
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W. Somerset Maugham155Margaret Mitchell156Nicholas Monsarrat156George Orwell157Mary Renault (Mary Challans)158Nevil Shute158Mickey Spillane159 J. R. R. Tolkien160Dennis Wheatley162
The Paperback Years: 1957 to 1974
164H. E. Bates164Sheila Burnford164Arthur C. Clarke165 James Clavell166 Jackie Collins166Len Deighton167Dorothy Eden168 J. T. Edson168Ian Fleming169Frederick Forsyth170Winston Graham171Arthur Hailey171 Joseph Heller172Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Burford Hibbert)172Susan Howatch173Ken Kesey173Louis L’Amour174D. H. Lawrence174Norah Lofts175Alistair MacLean176Ed McBain (Evan Hunter)176Grace Metalious177 James Michener178Michael Moorcock178Andrea Newman179Harold Robbins179Bernice Rubens180Wilbur Smith181 Jacqueline Susann182Morris West183
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Do you, by any chance, have the complete book? manuelavaldes@gmail.com
You're welcome!!!
Thanks a lot!
Unfortunately I don't, but you can order the complete book at www.palgrave-usa.com.