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Pan Selfridge
Author: Lindy Woodhead
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Pan Selfridge connects the development of the modern department store with its founder's striking personal life. Commercial imagination and social success meet luxury, relationships, and gambling in this portrait of a well-known entrepreneur.
Harry Gordon Selfridge was more than the founder of a famous London department store. He was a commercial visionary who helped turn shopping into an experience while living a life filled with success, luxury, social connections, romantic relationships, and gambling.
Book information
- Author
- Lindy Woodhead
- Publisher
- Albatros Media a.s.
- Imprint
- Motto
- Formát
- E-book
- Language
- Czech
- Genre
- biografia, dejiny podnikania, maloobchod, spoločenské dejiny
- ISBN
- 978-80-267-0744-8
- Publication date
- 1. January 2016
- Pages
- 360
- E-book formats
- EPUB (ISBN 978-80-267-0783-7) · PDF (ISBN 978-80-267-0782-0) · MOBI (ISBN 978-80-267-0784-4)
What is Pan Selfridge about?
Lindy Woodhead traces the life of American entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge, who built the Selfridges department store in London and significantly influenced modern retail. The book explores his commercial innovations, use of advertising, ability to anticipate customers' changing needs, and interest in new trends. It also examines his private life, social ambitions, relationships, and financial risks. The result is a biographical portrait of a man whose name became part of British retail history.
Themes and motifs
The birth of modern shopping
The book shows how Selfridge helped transform the department store into a place of experience, display, and social life.
Advertising and marketing
Selfridge used new methods of promotion and generating customer interest.
Entrepreneurial vision
His career illustrates an ability to recognize new consumer trends and turn them into business opportunities.
Success and private life
The biography connects Selfridge's business achievements with a luxurious lifestyle, relationships, and gambling.
Setting
The United States and, especially, London around the turn of the twentieth century and during its early decades, with an emphasis on retail and the Selfridges department store.
Main characters
Harry Gordon Selfridge
The American entrepreneur and founder of London's Selfridges department store whose life and career form the heart of the book.
Who is this book for?
For readers of biography, business history, fashion, marketing, retail, and London's social history.
Book context
Pan Selfridge is the Czech edition of Lindy Woodhead's biography of Harry Gordon Selfridge. SOURCE_FACT gives the original title as Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge and states that the book was first published in 2007. It later became the basis for the British television series Mr Selfridge.
Adaptations
Mr Selfridge
Otázky o knihe
Who is Pan Selfridge about?
It is a biography of Harry Gordon Selfridge, founder of London's Selfridges department store.
Who wrote Pan Selfridge?
The author is British writer Lindy Woodhead.
What is the book's original title?
SOURCE_FACT lists the original title as Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge.
Was Harry Gordon Selfridge a real person?
Yes. He was an American entrepreneur who founded the Selfridges department store in London.
Is Pan Selfridge a historical novel?
No. Despite the supplier's Historical Novels classification, it is biographical nonfiction.
Did the book inspire a television series?
Yes. It inspired the British series Mr Selfridge.
How many pages does this edition have?
SOURCE_FACT lists 360 pages.
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