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".[2] Hesperus Press has published some 300 works[3] 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.[4] 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.

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  1. ^ "Distribution". Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  2. ^ W.B. Gooderham. "Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Hesperus Press titles". The Book Depository. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Hesperus Web - Home". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.

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