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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Pelican Books ： ウィキペディア英語版 Pelican Books Pelican Books is a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books.〔("About Penguin - Company History" )〕 Originally founded in 1937,〔 Pelican Books combined important topics with clear prose to create inexpensive paperbacks for a broad audience. Before being discontinued in 1984,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pelican Books, A Flock of Non-Fiction )〕 Pelican Books published thousands of accessible, stimulating books covering a wide range of subjects from classical music to molecular biology to architecture. The imprint was relaunched in April 2014, with the first five titles appearing in May. ==Heritage== Pelican Books was first established in 1937 as a non-fiction imprint for low-cost intellectual paperbacks.〔 Founder Allen Lane wrote, ‘We…believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.’〔 Pelican lowered the traditional barriers to knowledge by selling books at the cost of a packet of cigarettes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How the Paperback Novel Changed Popular Literature )〕 These books became especially popular among the self-educating post-war generation, and Pelican was even called an ‘informal university for '50s Britons’ by The Guardian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What Would Allen Lane Make of Amazon )〕 The Spectator reported, ‘If there is any sense in saying that the culture of the world should be accessible to all without distinctions of wealth, such publications are helping to make it true.’〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Books and the Public )〕 Pelican published many of the major intellects of the 20th century including historian Eric Hobsbawm, literary critic Boris Ford, philosopher AJ Ayer, and scientist Jacob Bronowski. Pelican’s first book was George Bernard Shaw’s ''The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''.〔 Other classic Pelican books included ''Totem and Taboo'', ''The Eighteen Nineties'','' An Introduction to Modern Architecture'', ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', ''The Pelican Guide to English Literature'', and ''Childhood in Society''. Pelican’s early supporters included Orwell, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and JB Priestley. The imprint published books on thousands of subjects and became a global phenomenon. The series sold over 250 million copies worldwide over its nearly 50 years.〔 Although Pelican was discontinued in 1984, the original books continue to be collected worldwide and prized for their iconic bright blue covers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Classic Pelican Book Covers—In Pictures )〕 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「Pelican Books」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.