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He was born in Glasgow on 12 October 1817. His father William Collins, publisher, was a highly respected citizen, well known far and wide by his affective advocacy of the temperance cause, of which he was one of the original promoters in Scotland, and also for his devoted labours in connection with the comprehensive and successful scheme for Church Extension throughout Scotland.
The unabridged Collins English Dictionary was published on the web on 31 December 2011 on CollinsDictionary.com, along with the unabridged dictionaries of French, German, Spanish and Italian. [4] The site also includes example sentences showing word usage from the Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and trends from the Google Ngrams project, and word images from Flickr .
Название компании составлено из названий нескольких издательских фирм: Harper & Row, чьё название было результатом более раннего слияния Harper & Brothers и Row, Peterson & Company, и британской издательской компании William Collins, Sons.
William Collins, Sons (sering disebut sebagai Collins) ialah sebuah syarikat percetakan dan penerbitan Scotland yang diasaskan oleh guru sekolah Presbiterian, William Collins, di Glasgow pada tahun 1819, dengan kerjasama Charles Chalmers, adik Thomas Chalmers, menteri Tron Church, Glasgow.
1868年には社名を William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. とした 。 当初は宗教関係と教育関係の本の出版が中心だったが、他の分野の出版も手がけていった。1917年には小説の出版も始めた。例えば、アガサ・クリスティの小説は初期の6作を除いた全作品を出版している。
For 200 years William Collins has been asking the questions that matter. The books we publish aim to make sense of the world, from Max Hastings’ accounts of the wars that shaped the twentieth century to Professor Brian Cox and David Attenborough’s adventures into life’s biggest questions.
William Wilkie Collins (Londres, 8 de enero de 1824-Londres, 23 de septiembre de 1889) fue un novelista, dramaturgo y autor de relatos cortos inglés. Fue muy popular en su tiempo.
