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THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
H. G. Wells
William Collins
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Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from
Collins English Dictionary
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Source ISBN: 9780008190057
Ebook Edition © January 2017 ISBN: 9780008190064
Version: 2017-01-03
Contents
1. In the Dinghy of the Lady Vain
2. The Man Who Was Going Nowhere
5. The Man Who Had Nowhere to Go
16. How the Beast Folk Taste Blood
19. Montgomery’s ‘Bank Holiday’
21. The Reversion of the Beast Folk
Classic Literature: Words and Phrases
In 1819, millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books, and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William co-published in 1825, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.
Soon after, William published the first Collins novel; however, it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed, and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.
Aged 30, William’s son, William II, took over the business. A keen humanitarian with a warm heart and a generous spirit, William II was truly ‘Victorian’ in his outlook. He introduced new, up-to-date steam presses and published affordable editions of Shakespeare’s works and The Pilgrim’s Progress, making them available to the masses for the first time.
A new demand for educational books meant that success came with the publication of travel books, scientific books, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. This demand to be educated led to the later publication of atlases, and Collins also held the monopoly on scripture writing at the time.
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