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John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure

As the creator and editor of Penguin New Writing and The London Magazine, as the partner of the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press, as one of the most distinguished publishers of post-war literature, and as a poet, John Lehmann (1907-1987) was for 50 years at the centre of literature life in England.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 308 pages

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