LET THEM EAT CAKE: A NOVEL - Brossura

Shepherd, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1420810480 ISBN 13: 9781420810486

Casa editrice: AuthorHouse, 2005

Riassunto

A crisis looms in the tweedy world of scholarly publishing: the money men have discovered that it is an untapped source of profits. Their unlikely weapon is Henri de Klompenmaker, an accountant turned publisher who, in league with the monumentally mediocre Professor Leslie Fyfe, MBE, plums new depths of shady business practice. Sir Henry Wiseman, Nobel Prize-winner, and Master of St Leonard's College, Oxford, is outraged and is determined to expose them. He finds a willing ally in Marlene Pym, the burra memsahib of the London publishing world. This richly amusing tale of the tensions between money, scholarship and business is a witty exposé of a rarefied world in which the protagonists fully indulge their passion for Machiavellian schemes.

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L'autore:

Tom Angus is intimately acquainted with the academic and publishing worlds on both sides of the Atlantic. In the course of his career he has greatly enjoyed his relationship with the world of scholarship and has been hugely entertained by the excesses of corporate life. He has been both a perpetrator and a victim of the publishing process. His publications include many articles in journals, as well as chapters in reference books, but Let Them Eat Cake is his first novel. Tom Angus was born and lives in Scotland.

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• Editore: AuthorHouse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420810480
• ISBN 13: 9781420810486
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336