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Penguin Days: Tanya Schmollers Memoir of her Life at Penguin Books

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Author: Tanya Schmoller
Editor: Russell Edwards
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780955839504
Type: PCS Publication
Pages: 56
Medium: Paperback
Focus: History of Penguin, Penguin Personalities

Penguin Days was published in 2008 to commemorate the 90th birthday of the President Emeritus of the PCS, Tanya Schmoller.

Tanya's memoirs of her days at Penguin Books, edited by Russell Edwards, first appeared in The Penguin Collector issues 55-60. They comprise extracts from over 200 letters which she sent home weekly to her mother. Now gathered together in one publication they give a fascinating insight into the early years at Penguin.

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