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Pantheon’s founder, Kurt Wolff, was born in Germany in 1887 to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother. He studied German literature and in 1913, founded Kurt WolffVerlag. Among the authors he published were Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, and in German translation, Emile Zola, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov, and Sinclair Lewis. Admiring the way young up-and coming American publishers such Alfred A. Knopf and Random House’s Bennett Cerf employed contemporary, cutting-edge artists for text design, book jackets, and newspaper advertising, he did likewise, for which he was criticized by other German publishers. The deteriorating German economic conditions forced Wolff to close Kurt Wolff Verlag in 1930, and the changing political climate resulted in his decision to emigrate in 1933. He spent several years in France and then in Italy, where he became publishers of Pantheon Case Editrice, which he had co-founded in 1924. Wolff and his wife, Helen, emigrated to the United States in 1941. Within a year, they founded Pantheon Books in a one-room office in lower Manhattan. Wolff specialized in publishing literature in translation by authors such as Hermann Broch, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Boris Pasternak, Karl Jung and Gunter Grass. He also published important works on art history. In 1961, Bennett Cerf bought Pantheon and it became a part of Random House. Today, Pantheon is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and continues to publish world-class literature. Pantheon’s authors include Julia Glass, James Gleick, Ha Jin, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Alexander McCall Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Art Spiegelman, and Studs Terkel.

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Beyond Competition

By: Pantheon Books

Stock #: 394-83605-7    Year: 1977

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Beyond Competition

Boys Weekend

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 2023

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

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Children at War

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 2005

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Pantheon Books)


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Embroideries

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 2005

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

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Rusty Brown

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 2019

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

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Asterios Polyp

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 2009

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

Black Hole

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 2008

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

Cop Killer - The Story of a Crime

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 1975

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Mystery Novels (Pantheon Books)

Gamut of Games, A

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 1982

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Gamut of Games, A

Gamut of Games, A

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 1969

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Gamut of Games, A

Here

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 2014

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

Korea - The Unkown War

By: Pantheon Books

Stock #: 0-394-55366-7    Year: 1988

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Pantheon Books)

Minority Report

By: Pantheon Books

Stock #: 0-375-42187-4    Year: 2002

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Pantheon Books)

Modern Soviet Society

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 1983

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Pantheon Books)

Rabbi's Cat, The

By: Pantheon Books

Stock #: 0-375-42281-1    Year: 2005

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Historical/Alternate History (Pantheon Books)

Terra!

By: Pantheon Books

Year: 1983

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Pantheon Books)