The Borzoi 1920: Being a Sort of Record of Five Years' Publishing
1920
The Borzoi 1920: Being a Sort of Record of Five Years' Publishing
1920
In 1920, Alfred A. Knopf's fledgling publishing house marked its fifth anniversary with this peculiar, affectionate artifact: part literary showcase, part corporate memoir, and wholly a love letter to the collaborative art of making books. The Borzoi 1920 compiles essays, reflections, and works from the authors who helped build the house's early reputation, including Willa Cather, whose presence here predates her major fame. But this isn't dry corporate history. Knopf's foreword reads as a sincere thank-you to the booksellers, readers, and writers who believed in a young publisher willing to take risks on literary fiction and progressive ideas. The result is a time capsule capturing a pivotal moment in American publishing, when houses still saw themselves as cultural partners rather than content factories. For readers interested in book history, literary communities of the 1920s, or the making of modern American publishing, this offers something rare: genuine warmth wrapped in ambition, rendered with the kind of care that made Knopf's name synonymous with literary quality.
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“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.””
— Unknown
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.””
— Unknown
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.””
— Unknown
“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.””
— Unknown
“Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.””
— Unknown
“I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered-- about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.””
— Unknown
“I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.””
— Unknown
“There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.””
— Unknown
“I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.””
— Unknown
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