Word: bodley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bringing out a far better translation of The First Circle .? The second novel is Cancer Ward, based on the author's own struggle with cancer. It employs the familiar device of the hospital as microcosm of a sick world. Versions are being published in Britain by the Bodley Head and in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Dial Press. The appearance of these works is a literary event of the first magnitude?and inevitably a major political event as well...
...Rome, where Publisher Alberto Mondadori in March copyrighted a Russian-language edition that he says was brought to him unsolicited. He now has an Italian edition in print and claims worldwide rights to the book. In Britain, a man purporting to represent Solzhenitsyn delivered a manuscript to the Bodley Head publishers, who plan to issue it Aug. 1. Eventually, the Soviets apparently got fed up with all the illicit excitement about the book. Victor Louis, a Moscow-based journalist who has run such other errands for the Russian government as selling a copy of Svetlana Alliluyeva's Twenty Letters...
Cost of Admission. The book is one of the richest publishing coups of the century, simultaneously released worldwide in eight languages. Publishers had been angling for it for years, without response. In 1957 Max Reinhardt of Britain's Bodley Head press wangled an invitation to meet Chaplin through Novelist Graham Greene. After dinner at Chaplin's secluded mansion in the little Swiss village of Corsier, Chaplin shyly asked his guests if they would like to hear him read aloud some trial passages from a book he was starting to write. "It was a shattering, staggering experience," Reinhardt recalls...