Founded | 2001 |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | 28 Mortimer Street, London W1W 7RD |
Distribution | BookSource (UK) Trafalgar Square Publishing (US) Nationwide Book Distributors (New Zealand) APD Singapore (Singapore) Jordan Book Center (Middle East)[1] |
Publication types | Books |
Official website | www |
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".[2] Hesperus Press has published some 300 works[3] 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.[4] 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.