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U.S. publishing company. It was founded by Bennett Cerf and Donald S. Klopfer in 1925. As it grew it published many successful and prestigious writers and gathered under its corporate roof many other firms, including Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (acquired 1960), Pantheon Books (1961), Ballantine Books (1973), Fawcett Books (1982), and the Crown Publishing Group (1988). It was itself bought several times before becoming in 1998 a part of one of the world's largest media companies, Bertelsmann AG.



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Sources: Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, Harvill Press, 1999; Robert McGhee, The Last Imaginary Place: a human history of the Arctic world, Oxford University Press, 2005; Richard Vaughan, The Arctic: a history, The History Press, 2008; Encyclopaedia Britannica, www.
When she heard that Bolaño’s British publishing house, Harvill Press, was putting out an English translation of his novel By Night in Chile and was looking to sell the American rights, she asked the house’s longtime publisher, Christopher MacLehose, if he might give her a look.
Harvill Press, 2000 (UK) The Double by Jose Saramago Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
 
 
 
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