Hesperus Press

Hesperus Press
Founded	2001
Founder	^[1]
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	28 Mortimer Street, London W1W 7RD
Publication types	Books
Number of employees	5^[2]
Official website	www.hesperuspress.com

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". It has quietly devoted itself to shining a light on neglected titles and authors.^[3] Hesperus Press has published some 300 works^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[6]

Book titles

Titles from Hesperus Press include:

Zastrozzi: A Romance (by Percy Bysshe Shelley, foreword by Germaine Greer)
The Double: A Petersburg Poem (by Fyodor Dostoevsky, foreword by Jeremy Dyson)
Hyde Park Gate News (by Virginia Woolf, foreword by Hermione Lee)
On Travel (by Charles Dickens)
On War (by George Bernard Shaw, foreword by Philip Pullman)
Amos Barton (by George Eliot, foreword by Matthew Sweet)
Carlyle's House and Other Sketches (by Virginia Woolf, foreword by Doris Lessing)
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (by Charles Dickens, foreword by D. J. Taylor)
The Popular Girl (by F. Scott Fitzgerald, foreword by Helen Dunmore)
The Dream (by Émile Zola, translated by Andrew Brown)
Sanditon (by Jane Austen, foreword by A. C. Grayling)
Lesley Castle (by Jane Austen, foreword by Zoe Heller)

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