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HarperCollins ist ein Tochterunternehmen von Rupert Murdochs News Corporation, entstanden durch die Fusion des amerikanischen Verlagshauses Harper & Row (seit 1987 im Besitz von News Corporation) und des britischen Verlagshauses William Collins & Sons im Jahr 1990. Weltweiter Chief Executive Officer von HarperCollins ist seit 2008 Brian Murray ...
Keeping Up Appearances (1928) William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd; Staying with Relations (1930) They Were Defeated (1932) Going Abroad (1934) I Would Be Private (1937) And No Man's Wit (1940) The World My Wilderness (1950) William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd; The Towers of Trebizond (1956) William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd Deutsch: Tante Dot, das Kamel und ...
Sir William Collins (1817–1895) was a Scottish publisher, prominent in the temperance movement who served as Glasgow 's Lord Provost between 1877 and 1880. He was the first fully abstaining Lord Provost of Glasgow and gained the nickname Water Willie. [1] In politics Sir William was an advanced Liberal, and in ecclesiastical matters he was an ...
William Collins & Sons. Le origini della Collins sono da rintracciare nell'attività editoriale dello scozzese William Collins che fondò la società a Glasgow in associazione con Charles Chalmers. L'attività editoriale era concentrata nella produzione di libri religiosi.
Working with a range of authors from the bestselling and prize-winning to the brilliant debut, William Collins has forged a reputation for publishing books that investigate, challenge, and push forward the thinking of the day. We are also proud to be home to the New Naturalists: the longest-running and arguably most influential natural history ...
Also known as: Collins, W. Collins & Co, William Collins Sons and Co, etc. Publishing company founded in Glasgow in 1819 by William Collins and Charles Chalmers. Acquired by News Corporation in 1981. Merged with Harper & Row to form HarperCollins in 1990. Originally specialized in educational and religious books, but became a diverse company.
Life and career. William Lucas Collins was born in 1815 at Oxwich, near Swansea, Glamorgan, south Wales. He was sent to be educated at Rugby School (1829–33) and Jesus College, Oxford ( matriculating in 1833, obtaining a BA in Literae Humaniores in 1838 and his MA in 1840). [1] [2]
