The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford

Author:Sybille Bedford [Bedford, Sybille]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781907970986
Publisher: Daunt Books
Published: 2016-10-27T04:00:00+00:00

‘SIR WILLIAM EMRYS WILLIAMS!’ A director of Penguin Books, Secretary-General of the Arts Council, knighted in 1955.

‘Will you explain why you printed 200,000 copies of this book?’

‘That is nothing out of the ordinary. An average first printing of a Penguin would be 40,000 to 50,000 copies, but for some books we print as many as 250,000.’

‘Why did you not think of putting in rows of asterisks?’

Sir William: ‘That would make it a dirty book.’

‘What about dashes for the four-letter words?’

‘That would make for unwholesomeness.’

‘Do you think you could have sold a large number of copies of an expurgated edition?’

‘Quite the same number.’ (There is in fact such an expurgated edition published in Britain, and it sold nearly a quarter million copies in nine months last year.)

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