Haute Culture Books Creates Book Angels

Haute Culture Books is a new venture in luxury publishing with a mission to bring masterpieces of global literature to English-speaking readers around the world. The press is currently launching a unique limited edition of Gustave Flaubert's Felicity: The Tale of the Simple Heart in time for the holiday season. They are also slated to publish the first English edition of the major Russian novelist Yuri Mamleyev's Shatuny, as well as the first volume of Truth and Justice, by the Estonian icon A.H. Tammsaare in 2014.

Haute Culture is built on an innovative and experimental new model. The press creates limited print editions, each a distinctive art object. (The new Flaubert volume, for example, comes in its own hand-painted birdcage.) These luxury volumes support the distribution of free e-books for each title, and buyers are, in effect, benefactors—or "Book Angels," as the press calls them. Haute Culture's ultimate goal is to reach as many readers as possible and share international literary icons with a new, global audience. The "Book Angels" program allows individuals to share and support that mission.

Many great European works have not yet been translated to English, and Haute Culture aims to bridge that huge cultural gap.  As CEO Luis de Miranda puts it, "We can't fight the fact that English is the international language, but it's possible, and indeed essential, to bring to the international psyche works that truly represent a unique viewpoint. Literature has the potential to create a more diverse and interconnected world, but in order to reach that potential we must fight against a profit-driven culture and build new bridges."

You can learn more about the press at: https://www.hauteculturebooks.com