Obelisk : a history of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press / Neil Pearson.

By:

Pearson, Neil, 1959- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 494 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781846313684
1846313686
9781781387832
1781387834

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Obelisk.DDC classification:

070.5092 22

LOC classification:

Z305.O24 P43 2007eb

Other classification:

06.23

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Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Key to Refernce Works; A Very British Pornographer: The Life of Jack Kahane; Bibliography of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press; Author Biographies; Picture Credits; Works Consulted; Index of Obelisk Authors.

Summary: Obelisk : A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press tells the story of one of the twentieth century?s most extraordinary publishing enterprises. Censor-baiting and provocative, a publisher of?dirty books? as well as those of the literary elite, Jack Kahane?s Obelisk Press was the first publisher of the early work of Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell and Anaïs Nin, and its roster of authors also included James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington and Cyril Connolly. Kahane subsidised his highbrow literary endeavours by pumping out cheap erotica, trash fiction produced by long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News' Rome correspondent and self-styled 'Marco Polo of Sex' N. Reynolds Packard.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 490-492) and index.

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Obelisk : A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press tells the story of one of the twentieth century?s most extraordinary publishing enterprises. Censor-baiting and provocative, a publisher of?dirty books? as well as those of the literary elite, Jack Kahane?s Obelisk Press was the first publisher of the early work of Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell and Anaïs Nin, and its roster of authors also included James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington and Cyril Connolly. Kahane subsidised his highbrow literary endeavours by pumping out cheap erotica, trash fiction produced by long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News' Rome correspondent and self-styled 'Marco Polo of Sex' N. Reynolds Packard.

English.

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