Chatto & Windus
Chatto & Windus was a London publisher that began in the Victorian era . Chatto & Windus has been an imprint of the Random House publishing group since 1987 .
history
After living in America for several years , the British John Camden Hotten opened a small bookstore in London's Piccadilly street in 1855 and founded his own publishing house. When he died in 1873, his former junior partner Andrew Chatto and the poet W. E. Windus bought the publishing house from Hotten's widow . One of the early successes of Chatto & Windus was the publication of the British first edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Chatto's human and publishing skills had been able to win back the American writer after Hotten fell out with him.
In the years that followed, Chatto & Windus signed many other important writers in addition to Mark Twain, including WS Gilbert , Wilkie Collins , HG Wells , Richard Aldington , Frederick Rolfe, Aldous Huxley and Samuel Beckett . The famous unfinished novel The Lords of Hermiston (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson was published by Chatto & Windus, as was the first English translation of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time .
Acquisitions
In 1946, Chatto & Windus took over Hogarth Press, which was founded in 1917 by Virginia and Leonard Woolf . In 1969 Chatto & Windus gave up its function as an independent publisher and merged with Jonathan Cape , a publisher founded in 1921 . The group of companies bought The Bodley Head and Virago Press publishers before being taken over by Random House in 1987 and merged with Sinclair-Stevenson in 1997 .
program
As an imprint of the Random House publishing group, Chatto & Windus publishes, among other things, fiction by contemporary international authors as well as literary biographies , memoirs and poetry . Authors are for example AS Byatt , Michelle de Kretser , Anita Desai , David Malouf , Javier Marías , Toni Morrison , Alice Munro , Irène Némirovsky , Amos Oz , Atiq Rahimi , Tremain and Anne Tyler , Fannie Flagg , Margaret Forster , Arthur Golden , Susan Hill , Mary Lawson and Richard Russo .
literature
- Oliver Warner: Chatto & Windus. A Brief Account of the Firm's Origin, History and Development , Chatto & Windus, London 1973, ISBN 978-0-7011-1963-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Barbara Schmidt: “A History of and Guide to uniform editions of Mark Twain's works. Chatto and Windus ”, at: http://www.twainquotes.com/UniformEds/UniformEdsCh4-c2.html (accessed February 12, 2013).
- ^ Robert Louis Stevenson: The Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance. Chatto & Windus, London 1896.
- ↑ Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past . Translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff , Chatto & Windus, London 1922.