Hesperus Press

Hesperus Press is an independent publishing house based in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2001.

The Publisher's motto, "Et Remotissima Prope" is a Latin phrase which means "Bringing near what is far". It has quietly devoted itself to shining a light on neglected titles and authors.^[3] Hesperus Press has published some 300 works^[4] by both classic and contemporary authors, including: Dante, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Tolstoy, Woolf, Annie Dillard, and Aldous Huxley. Their series include: Hesperus Classics, Brief Lives, Poetic Lives, ON, Modern Voices, and Hesperus Worldwide.^[5]

Hesperus is also responsible for the best-seller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson, released in July 2012.^[6]

Book titles

Titles from Hesperus Press include:

• Zastrozzi: A Romance (by Percy Bysshe Shelley, foreword by Germaine Greer)
• The Double: A Petersburg Poem (by Fyodor Dostoevsky, foreword by Jeremy Dyson)
• Hyde Park Gate News (by Virginia Woolf, foreword by Hermione Lee)
• On Travel (by Charles Dickens)
• On War (by George Bernard Shaw, foreword by Philip Pullman)
• Amos Barton (by George Eliot, foreword by Matthew Sweet)
• Carlyle's House and Other Sketches (by Virginia Woolf, foreword by Doris Lessing)
• A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (by Charles Dickens, foreword by D. J. Taylor)
• The Popular Girl (by F. Scott Fitzgerald, foreword by Helen Dunmore)
• The Dream (by Émile Zola, translated by Andrew Brown)
• Sanditon (by Jane Austen, foreword by A. C. Grayling)
• Lesley Castle (by Jane Austen, foreword by Zoe Heller)

References

External links

• Official website
• Mentioned in The New York Times
• Mentioned in The Guardian (Book Blog)
• Mentioned in London Evening Standard
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man mentioned in The Guardian
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man mentioned in the Jordan Times
• Dickens' Women mentioned in The Telegraph