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Sir Allen Lane CH (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. [1] [2] In 1967 he started a hardback imprint under his own name, Allen Lane.
Penguin Books Limited is a German-owned English publishing house.It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, [3] as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. [4]
In 1956 he published The Penguin Story MCMXXXV–MCMLVI, [8] a history of Penguin Books up to that date, and in 1961 he edited The Reader's Guide, [9] a guide to the best books across all fields of knowledge and interest. In 1973, he published Allen Lane : A Personal Portrait, a biography of Sir Allen Lane (1902–1970).
The Penguin Collector is the official journal of the Penguin Collectors Society (). The Penguin Collectors Society (PCS) is a charity based in the United Kingdom.Its main purpose is to promote the study and research of all aspects of Penguin Books, the publishing company founded by Allen Lane in 1935.
Four years after Penguin Books had been founded by Allen Lane, the idea for Puffin Books was hatched in 1939, when Noel Carrington, at the time an editor for Country Life books, met him and proposed a series of children's non-fiction picture books, inspired by the brightly coloured lithographed books mass-produced at the time for Soviet children.
ISBN 978-0-14-311389-8 (US Penguin Books paperback) The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815 , written by the British historian Timothy Blanning , was first published by Allen Lane in 2007. It met with very favourable reviews, was The Sunday Times history book of the year, and was reprinted in paperback by Penguin Books in 2008.
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He goes as far back in time as approximately 555 million years ago. The book was simultaneously published in English by Allen Lane (UK and Commonwealth), Random House (USA and Philippines), and Penguin Canada (Canada) in February 2022.