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An eerie journey into a bold cosmopolitan publishing venture in defiance of the censorship rampant in Nazi Germany... Wonderfully engaging history. -Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews An absorbing tale of economics, censorship, and literature. [Michele] Troy's riveting exploration of Albatross is a rewarding mix of publishing history, literary criticism, and biography. -Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly

An eerie journey into a bold cosmopolitan publishing venture in defiance of the censorship rampant in Nazi Germany... Wonderfully engaging history. -Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews An absorbing tale of economics, censorship, and literature. [Michele] Troy's riveting exploration of Albatross is a rewarding mix of publishing history, literary criticism, and biography. -Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly For one who has, since boyhood, regarded the second-hand bookshop as a paradise of total immersion, it is quite shocking to discover Albatross...Troy's account is a painstaking act of exhumation... she sticks tenaciously to her unique dig, presenting us with a remarkable reconstruction. -Duncan Fallowell, Spectator -- Duncan Fallowell Spectator A valuable document of historical preservation. -Signature Reads Signature Reads

An eerie journey into a bold cosmopolitan publishing venture in defiance of the censorship rampant in Nazi Germany... Wonderfully engaging history. -Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews

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Michele K. Troy is professor of English at Hillyer College at the University of Hartford. She studies Anglo-American literary modernism in continental Europe in the decades between the two world wars.

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