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Duckworth Overlook, originally Gerald Duckworth and Company, founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth, is an independent British publisher. It was important in the development of English literature in the first half of the twentieth century, when it published such writers as Virginia Woolf (Gerald Duckworth's half-sister), W. H. Davies, Anthony Powell, John Galsworthy and D. H. Lawrence. It continues to be highly respected and successful within the publishing industry. ==History== For many years the company operated from a headquarters at Camden, North London, in a building called 'The Old Piano Factory'. This was originally a piano factory and its charm - as well as the keen eye of the firm's long-standing chairman Mervyn Horder - attracted some of the best and most notable 'characters' of the writing community of the day. The main stock-in-trade was the production and publication of large factual books for universities. It was also a forward-looking company and kept its eye on market trends and opportunities, publishing a variety of books by some of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. In 2003 the company suffered a financial collapse and was put into receivership. Its assets were bought by Peter Mayer, a former chief executive of Penguin Books, who already owned The Overlook Press of New York. The May 2007 edition of ''Publishing Trends'' reported that Duckworth's trade books were then published under the Duckworth/Overlook imprint.〔http://publishingtrends.com/ 〕 In 2012 Duckworth in London and Overlook in New York continue to work together to produce and promote their publications. In 2006 Duckworth published ''An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin'' by Rohan Kriwaczek, subsequently reported to be a hoax, the funerary violin having never existed. Kriwaczek had all along designed the work as a pastiche and Duckworth profited handsomely from the media coverage. Duckworth publishes a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, from authors such as Charles McCarry, Robert Littell and Brian Clegg, spanning history, popular science, biography and memoir, literary fiction, and even children's titles. The company now operates from an office in Farringdon, London. 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「Duckworth Overlook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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