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As You Were: A Portable Library of American Prose and Poetry Assembled for Members of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Marine

As You Were: A Portable Library of American Prose and Poetry Assembled for Members of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Marine

Alexander Woollcott
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In the first part of World War II, remembering his days as a soldier during the first World War, Alexander Woollcott decided to put together a book of pieces from various American authors for servicemen to read. He proposed it to his publishing house, Viking. It would be hardcover , but also small, compact, though with a lot of pages. It would have light paper and small margins, but was compact, and most of all, portable. After all, it was being designed for soldiers. As You Were: A Portable Library of American Prose and Poetry Assembled for Members of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Marine was published in March, 1943.

It was followed almost immediately by The Portable Steinbeck, a book that was easy to put together as Steinbeck himself was a Viking author. The back of the Steinbeck made clear the mission of the Portable Library: “to present a considerable quantity of widely popular reading in a volume so small that it can conveniently be carried and read in places where a book of ordinary format would be a hindrance.”
Language
English
Pages
657
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
The Viking Press
Release
March 01, 1943

As You Were: A Portable Library of American Prose and Poetry Assembled for Members of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Marine

Alexander Woollcott
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In the first part of World War II, remembering his days as a soldier during the first World War, Alexander Woollcott decided to put together a book of pieces from various American authors for servicemen to read. He proposed it to his publishing house, Viking. It would be hardcover , but also small, compact, though with a lot of pages. It would have light paper and small margins, but was compact, and most of all, portable. After all, it was being designed for soldiers. As You Were: A Portable Library of American Prose and Poetry Assembled for Members of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Marine was published in March, 1943.

It was followed almost immediately by The Portable Steinbeck, a book that was easy to put together as Steinbeck himself was a Viking author. The back of the Steinbeck made clear the mission of the Portable Library: “to present a considerable quantity of widely popular reading in a volume so small that it can conveniently be carried and read in places where a book of ordinary format would be a hindrance.”
Language
English
Pages
657
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
The Viking Press
Release
March 01, 1943

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