Scribner imprint: 1661 books
In the Company of Writers
A Life in Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
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...
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
50 North American Stories Since 1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.
Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald...
by Charles Scribner
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
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.
My Ear at His Heart
Reading My Father
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Described in a recent New York Times Magazine profile as a "postcolonial Philip Roth," Hanif Kureishi first captured the attention of audiences and critics in the 1980s with the award-winning novel The Buddha of Suburbia and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid....
Trimalchio
An Early Version of The Great Gatsby
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
For the legions of Great Gatsby fans and scholars, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early version of his masterpiece provides a new understanding of Fitzgerald’s working methods, fresh insight into his characters, and renewed appreciation of his genius—now available in ebook for the first time.
Reading...
The Tower
A Facsimile Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly...
by William Butler Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts...
Not What We Appear To Be
New Perspectives for Conscious Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Our outer appearance and inner nature reflect and assist in the experiences we are destined to have. But we are not what we appear to be. It requires a leap of faith to absorb that we are far more than three-dimensional beings. Each of us is a multidimensional aspect of a greater being, with our own...
by The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller
“The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype…the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
The only book with exclusive analysis by the...
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this instantand tenacious bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up...
by Ma-Ling Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Full of juicy details about what really goes on behind the bedroom door, The Education of a Very Young Madam is a provocative exposé of the newest developments in the world's oldest profession.
A stripper at age fifteen, involved with majorleague gang members before she was twenty, and a madam...
King Larry
The Life and Ruins of a Billionaire Genius
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
From Howard Hughes to Mark Zuckerberg, the public has always been fascinated by genius entrepreneurs who succumb to their eccentricities. Now, James Scurlock engages, educates, and entertains readers with the captivating story of DHL cofounder and billionaire Larry Hillblom.
King Larry begins...
It's How We Play the Game
Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference.
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
For readers of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz’s Onward, an inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK’s Sporting Goods about building a multibillion dollar business, coming to the defense of embattled youth sports programs, and taking a principled—and highly controversial—stand against...
Makeup to Breakup
My Life In and Out of Kiss
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
LEGENDARY founding KISS drummer Peter “Catman” Criss has lived an incredible life in music, from the streets of Brooklyn to the social clubs of New York City to the ultimate heights of rock ’n’ roll success and excess.
KISS formed in 1973 and broke new ground with their elaborate makeup,...