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Bantam Books is a major U. S. publishing house owned by Random House and is part of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group. Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher It was formed in 1945 by Walter Pitkin, Jr. , Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine. Ian Keith Ballantine ( February 15, 1916 – March 9, 1995) was a pioneering American publisher who founded and published the innovative Betty Ballantine (born 1919 is a publisher who with her husband Ian Ballantine formed Bantam Books in 1945 and Ballantine Books in 1952 It has since been purchased several times by many companies including National General and currently Random House.

Bantam has published the entire original run of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of children's books, as well as the first original novels (aimed at adults) based upon the Star Trek franchise, publishing about a dozen such books between 1970 and 1982 when the licence was taken over by Pocket Books. Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's Gamebooks first published by Bantam Books Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes Paperback books Bantam also published a dozen volumes of short story adaptations of scripts from Star Trek: The Original Series. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such Star Trek is a Science fiction Television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 through Bantam is the American paperback publisher of The Guinness Book of Records. Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U

In their Bantam Classics Series, they offer a wide range of classic books (e. The Bantam Books Classics is a book series with some of the greatest Classic books of all time g. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Candide by Voltaire or Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne) from all kinds of different authors and themes. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the Magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith. Adam Smith ( baptised 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of Political economy. --> Candide ou l'Optimisme (1759 is a French Satire by the Enlightenment Philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which François-Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 30 May 1778) better known by the Pen name Voltaire, was a French Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours is a classic Adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8 1828 &ndash March 24 1905) was a French Author who pioneered the science-fiction

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