Homepage
Login
Profile
BookClubs
dmBox
Read Ebook: The Remedy for Unemployment by Wallace Alfred Russel
Font size:
Background color:
Text color:
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page
Ebook has 72 lines and 12033 words, and 2 pages
No. 5--SOCIALISM AND INVENTIONS.
No. 6.--STOP THE STRIKE.
No. 7.--JOHN BULL'S RENT AND INTEREST.
No. 8.--THE REMEDY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.
A NEW RELIGION.
WHAT IS THE USE OF PARLIAMENT?
Order them from your Newsagent.
Every Friday Fortnight--One Penny.
MERRIE ENGLAND.
Paper cover, 3d.; by post 4 1/2 d. Cloth, 1/- by post 1/2.
"Merrie England" first appeared as a series of articles in the CLARION in 1892-3. These articles, with some revisions and additions, were afterwards produced in volume form at a shilling. The book met with immediate success, some 25,000 copies being sold.
In October, 1894, the CLARION published the same book, uniform in size and type with the shilling edition, at the low price of ONE PENNY. As the book contained 206 pages, and was printed by trade-union labour, and on British-made paper, it could only be produced at a loss. This loss was borne by the proprietors of the CLARION.
The sale of the penny edition outran all expectations. No one supposed that more than 100,000 would be called for, but in a few months over 700,000 had been sold, without a penny being spent in advertisement, and in face of the tremendous opposition excited by Socialistic publications in those days.
Later on an edition was published at 3d., and the total sale reached nearly a million copies.
An American edition is said to have sold equally well, and the book was translated into Welsh, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Spanish, and other languages, on none of which editions, it may be remarked, did the author receive any royalties.
The British edition has been out of print for some years, and there has recently been a growing demand for the book's re-issue. To this the author at length reluctantly acceded, and the present edition was announced. That the demand was real may be judged from the fact that orders for 20,000 copies were placed before the date of publication, and the new issue promises to sell as well as the first threepenny edition.
THE CLARION PRESS, 44, WORSHIP STREET, LONDON, E.C.
Transcriber's note:
--Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.
--Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
--Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
For additional contact information:
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page