Angèle Manteau and the Indonesian Connection. A Remarkable Story of the Flemish Book Trade after the Second World War.
The famous twentieth-century publishing house A. Manteau would not have achieved its literary success if the manager of the firm, Angèle Manteau, had not been prepared to reach commercial compromises once in a while. In Flanders, publishing companies could not make ends meet with the sales of litera...
| Publicado en: | Quaerendo Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 346 - 359 |
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