| Founded | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www.hesperuspress.com |
Hesperus Press is an independent publisher based in London, UK. It was founded in 2001 by Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini,[1] who went on to found Alma Books in 2005.[2]
The press's motto, "Et Remotissima Prope," is translated from the Latin to mean "bringing near what is far." Hesperus Press has published some 300 works[3] by both classic and contemporary authors, including: Dante, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Tolstoy, Woolf, Annie Dillard, and Aldous Huxley. Their series include: Hesperus Classics, Brief Lives, Poetic Lives, ON, Modern Voices, and Hesperus Worldwide.
Titles from Hesperus Press include: