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The popular yellow books series cover classic works of the German language and classics of other languages translated into German. Annotated foreign language classics in their original language (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, and
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enabled a wide range of literary texts to be made widely available, contributing significantly to popular education and the promotion of
European classical literature. The firm strongly relied on the latest production methods and marketing strategies to attain consistently low sales prices. When
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and Thomas Mann and one of the firm's book vending machines. The collection was put together over a period of more than 50 years by Hans-Jochen
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original language) have orange covers, study guides are blue, the original historical sources are in green, and non-fiction books (politics, history, society, natural sciences, art, music and religion) are in magenta.
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passed a law giving 30 years copyright protection to the works of all authors who had died before 9 November 1837. From 9 November 1867, when all these rights ended, Reclam was able to publish
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in the aftermath of the war, the publishing house was divided after its owner, Ernst Reclam, was partially dispossessed in
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