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Hesperus Press is an independent publishing house based in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2001. The Publisher's motto, "Et Remotissima Prope" is a Latin phrase which means "Bringing near what is far". It has quietly devoted itself to shining a light on neglected titles and authors.〔http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/may/24/out-of-print-books-republished〕 Hesperus Press has published some 300 works〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The Book Depository )〕 by both classic and contemporary authors, including: Dante, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Tolstoy, Woolf, Annie Dillard, and Aldous Huxley. Their series include: ''Hesperus Classics'', ''Brief Lives'', ''Poetic Lives'', ''ON'', ''Modern Voices'', and ''Hesperus Worldwide''.〔http://www.hesperuspress.com/web/〕 Hesperus is also responsible for the best-seller ''The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared'' by Swedish author ''Jonas Jonasson'', released in July 2012.〔http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/04/swedish-bestseller-has-last-laugh〕 ==Book titles== Titles from Hesperus Press include: * ''Zastrozzi: A Romance'' (by Percy Bysshe Shelley, foreword by Germaine Greer) * ''The Double: A Petersburg Poem'' (by Fyodor Dostoevsky, foreword by Jeremy Dyson) * ''Hyde Park Gate News'' (by Virginia Woolf, foreword by Hermione Lee) * ''On Travel'' (by Charles Dickens) * ''On War'' (by George Bernard Shaw, foreword by Philip Pullman) * ''Amos Barton'' (by George Eliot, foreword by Matthew Sweet) * ''Carlyle's House and Other Sketches'' (by Virginia Woolf, foreword by Doris Lessing) * ''A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire'' (by Charles Dickens, foreword by D. J. Taylor) * ''The Popular Girl'' (by F. Scott Fitzgerald, foreword by Helen Dunmore) * ''The Dream'' (by Émile Zola, translated by Andrew Brown) * ''Sanditon'' (by Jane Austen, foreword by A. C. Grayling) * ''Lesley Castle'' (by Jane Austen, foreword by Zoe Heller) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hesperus Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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