A Life in Fifty Books

Starting with Homer's Odyssey and ending with works by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and the German historian Ernst Kantorowicz, Anthony Cheetham has selected fifty books as mileposts with which to map the course of his long and productive career.

O carte de memorii fermecatoare si captivanta despre una dintre cele mai remarcabile cariere din industria editoriala britanica postbelica - cea a lui Anthony Cheetham, antreprenorul stralucit si creativ care a fondat Century, Orion, Quercus si Head of Zeus - relatata prin intermediul a cincizeci dintre cartile sale preferate, dintr-o viata de lectura si publicare.