Macmillan Inc. was an American book publishing company originally established as the American division of the British Macmillan Publishers . The two were later separated and acquired by other companies, with the remnants of the original American division of Macmillan present in McGraw-Hill Education 's Macmillan/McGraw-Hill textbooks, Gale 's Macmillan Reference USA division, and some trade imprints of Simon & Schuster ( Scribner , Free Press , and Atheneum Books ) that were transferred when both companies were owned by Paramount Communications .
32-585: Last Battle may refer to: Books [ edit ] The Last Battle , a 1956 novel by C. S. Lewis The Last Battle (Ryan book) , a 1966 book about the Battle of Berlin in World War II by Cornelius Ryan The Last Battle (Harding book) , a 2013 book about the Battle for Castle Itter in World War II by Stephen Harding Films [ edit ] Le Dernier Combat (English title: The Last Battle ),
64-762: A 1983 French film directed by Luc Besson The Last Battle (1923 film) , a German silent film Vietnam: The Last Battle , a documentary film Events [ edit ] Armageddon , in Christian theology, the final battle between God and Satan The Last Battle (Middle-earth) , or Dagor Dagorath, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium Tarmon Gai'don , or the Last Battle, an event in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan Other [ edit ] The Last Battle (band) , Scottish alternative indie folk band Last Battle (video game) ,
96-510: A 1989 Sega video game "The Last Battle" ( Star Wars Rebels ) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Last Battle . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Last_Battle&oldid=1236037795 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
128-638: A boycott threatened Macmillan US, it transferred the book to Doubleday Macmillan US merged with Crowell Collier Publishing Company in 1961. The U.S. publisher became a media giant and renamed itself Macmillan Inc. in 1973. In 1979, Thomas Mellon Evans bought a large stake in Macmillan Inc. Macmillan Inc. then was bid on by Mattel and ABC , only for an acquisition by ABC to break down. Macmillan Inc. then sold several non-publishing divisions. In 1980, Macmillan Inc. sold musical instrument maker C.G. Conn . In 1981, Macmillan Inc. sold Hagstrom Map ,
160-539: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Last Battle The Last Battle is a portal fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis , published by The Bodley Head in 1956. It was the seventh and final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). Like the other novels in the series, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions. The Last Battle
192-683: Is set almost entirely in the Narnia world and the English children who participate arrive only in the middle of the narrative. The novel is set some 200 Narnian years after The Silver Chair and about 2500 years (and 49 Earth years) since the creation of the world narrated in The Magician's Nephew . A false Aslan is set up in the north-western borderlands and conflict between true and false Narnians merges with that between Narnia and Calormen, whose people worship Tash. It concludes with termination of
224-713: The British Macmillan in 1999, purchased U.S. rights to the Macmillan name in 2001 and rebranded its American division with it in 2007. George Edward Brett opened the first Macmillan office in the United States in 1869. Macmillan sold its U.S. operations to the Brett family, George Platt Brett Sr. and George Platt Brett Jr. in 1896, resulting in the creation of an American company, Macmillan US (in which Macmillan Publishers held stake until 1951). Even with
256-646: The Centaur that strange and evil things are happening to Narnia and that the stars portend ominous developments. Tirian and his friend Jewel the Unicorn hear word of the death of the Dryads and rashly set out to confront the danger, instructing Roonwit to gather a small army to join them. Finding two Calormenes abusing a Narnian Talking Horse, Tirian and Jewel kill them both in a blind rage. Ashamed, they give themselves up to "Aslan". Awaiting judgment, Tirian recognizes
288-739: The Dwarfs". Only one Dwarf named Poggin remains faithful to Aslan and joins the group. Tirian learns that Shift and Rishda have inadvertently summoned the real Tash to Narnia when he and the others see him travelling north towards the stable. Farsight the Eagle arrives bearing grim news: Roonwit and the Narnian army loyal to Tirian have all been massacred by the Calormenes who have taken Cair Paravel in Tirian's absence. Tirian and his small force advance on
320-831: The Simon & Schuster educational and professional group (which included Macmillan Inc. and its properties). Pearson merged the acquired Simon & Schuster divisions with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education (including Macmillan Computer Publishing). Pearson closed the children's reference imprints of Macmillan Library Reference in preparation for a sale. Pearson sold the Macmillan Reference USA division (which included Scribner Reference and G. K. Hall) to Thomson Gale and Macmillan General Reference (except Complete Idiot's Guides ) to IDG Books in 1999. Macmillan's school publishing operations (including Glencoe, Barnell Loft, and Benziger ) were merged into
352-399: The United States with his family in the service of Macmillan's of England and built up a business of approximately $ 50,000 before he died. He was succeeded . . . by my father, who eventually incorporated The Macmillan Company of New York and built up business of about $ 9,000,000. I succeeded my father, and we currently doing a business of approximately $ 12,000,000. So then, the name of Brett and
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#1732765867209384-482: The bookstore Brentano's and the printer Alco‐Gravure. In 1981, Macmillan Inc. acquired the children's publisher Bradbury Press. In 1982, Macmillan Inc. sold its British division, Cassell , to CBS . In 1984, Macmillan Inc. acquired the Scribner Book Companies and the textbook publishers Sieber & McIntyre, Dellen Publishing, and Pennwell Books. The following year, Macmillan Inc. acquired
416-589: The early 1960s, "a span matched by few other families in the history of United States business." Macmillan Publishers sold its stake in Macmillan US in 1951 and later re-entered the American publishing industry with the founding of St. Martin's Press in 1952. Despite the strong protest of leading astronomers of the time, Macmillan US published in 1950 Imanuel Velikovsky 's Worlds in Collision . When
448-448: The educational publisher Jossey-Bass. The company was acquired by the controversial British tycoon Robert Maxwell 's Maxwell Communication Corporation in 1989. Later in 1989, Macmillan acquired Prentice Hall Information from Simon & Schuster and sold Intertec, Macmillan Book Clubs, and Gryphon Editions to K-III Communications . Maxwell Macmillan Professional and Business Reference Publishing (the former Prentice Hall division)
480-589: The evil that has been sown and he brings the world to an end: Father Time is awoken and calls the stars down from the skies into the sea. The inhabitants of Narnia gather outside the barn to be judged by Aslan. The faithful enter Aslan's country while those who have opposed or deserted him become ordinary animals and vanish in his shadow to a fate unknown even to the narrator. The vegetation is consumed by dragons , salamanders and giant lizards until they grow old, die, and rot into skeletal structures. The sea rises to cover Narnia. The land freezes when Father Time puts out
512-582: The farce that Shift has fabricated in league with Rishda and the talking cat Ginger. When he accuses Shift of lying, Tirian is tied to a tree for the night to face judgment the following morning. While the woodland creatures are sympathetic to his suffering, they cannot bring themselves to defy "Aslan". Tirian calls upon Aslan for help, and sees High King Peter and several others in a vision. He asks them to come to his aid. Shortly afterwards Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb arrive in Narnia from Earth. They relate that Peter and Edmund Pevensie went to London to dig up
544-659: The magic rings from the old house of Professor Kirke (mentioned in the previous story ) in hopes that Jill and Eustace can use them to get to Narnia. But feeling a shock in their railway carriage on Earth, Eustace and Jill find themselves in Narnia without ever seeing the rings. Tirian gives Eustace and Jill a warm welcome. They release Tirian and rescue Jewel. In the stable, Jill finds Puzzle, who comes to understand his folly and joins Tirian's side. A band of Dwarfs are also rescued, but their faith in Aslan has been shattered and they renounce their allegiance, proclaiming "the Dwarfs are for
576-517: The name of Macmillan have been and are synonymous in the United States. Under the leadership of the Brett family, Macmillan served as the publisher of American authors Winston Churchill, Margaret Mitchell , author of Gone with the Wind , and Jack London , author of White Fang and Call of the Wild . The Bretts remained in control of the American offices of Macmillan from its creation in 1869 to
608-465: The previous Narnia having been an imperfect and corruptible shadow. As they advance, the Friends meet and reunite with characters from previous adventures who have been dead for centuries; Aslan reveals that the Friends may also stay as they had died in a train accident on Earth. Aslan sheds his lion form ("And as He spoke He no longer looked like a lion"), and the series ends with the revelation that this
640-466: The profits and garners support from the Calormenes – led by Rishda Tarkaan – by claiming that Aslan is another name for Tash , a bloodthirsty deity worshipped by the Calormenes. Those who question Shift's words are invited into a large stable where "Tashlan" is said to reside, only to be stealthily murdered by one of Rishda's men. King Tirian, a descendant of King Caspian X , is warned by Roonwit
672-470: The publishing operations of ITT ( Sams , Bobbs-Merrill , legal publisher Michie Co., trade magazine company Intertec, Marquis Who's Who , and G. K. Hall & Co. ). Bobbs-Merrill was subsequently closed, with its remaining books moved to Macmillan. In 1986, Macmillan Inc. sold the music publisher G. Schirmer, Inc. to Music Sales Group . In 1987, Macmillan Inc. acquired the educational publisher Laidlaw from Doubleday . In 1988, Macmillan Inc. acquired
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#1732765867209704-431: The rebellious Narnians, but Emeth then disappears. Outside the stable, Tirian's group engages Shift and the Calormenes, but most of the remaining Narnians on either side are all either killed or sacrificed to Tash by being thrown into the stable. Tirian throws Shift into the stable and Tash devours Shift. Realising that real danger lies in the stable, the terrified Rishda offers the remaining Narnians as sacrifices to avoid
736-462: The split of the American company from its parent company in Britain, George Brett Jr. and Harold Macmillan remained close personal friends. George P. Brett Jr. made the following comments in a letter dated 23 January 1947 to Daniel Macmillan about his family's devotion to the American publishing industry: For the record my grandfather was employed by Macmillan's of England as a salesman. He came to
768-408: The stable to expose the truth of Shift's deception. Ginger, sent in to aid in the deception, runs out in terror, having lost his ability to speak. Emeth, one of Rishda's men and a devout follower of Tash, insists on seeing his god. Rishda tries to dissuade him, but Emeth enters the empty stable. Angry at the deception in the name of Tash, he kills another soldier who was stationed in the stable to murder
800-422: The sun after it destroys the moon. At Aslan's command, King Peter shuts the door on Narnia. Aslan leads the faithful to his country, telling them to go "further up and further in". Soon they encounter Emeth; Aslan has accepted his faithful service to Tash because it was offered in good faith and therefore truly done to Aslan, whereas Tash is served only by evil. Aslan takes the Friends to a "true" version of Narnia,
832-573: The text." In the western regions of Narnia, the clever and greedy ape Shift persuades the naive donkey Puzzle to wear a lion's skin (an echo from Aesop's story of The Ass in the Lion's Skin ) and introduces him to the other Narnians as the Great Lion Aslan . Shift, posing as Aslan's spokesman, uses Aslan's name to persuade the Narnians to cut down the trees for lumber. Shift pockets
864-508: The world by Aslan, after a "last battle" that is practically lost. Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year. Lewis and The Last Battle won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association , recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject . The author wrote to illustrator Baynes, "is it not rather 'our' medal? I'm sure the illustrations were taken into account as well as
896-833: The wrath of Tash. Tirian, left alone and fighting for his life, drags Rishda into the stable and finds himself in a vast and lush plain. Tash seizes Rishda and advances on Tirian, but is stopped by the "Friends of Narnia": Digory Kirke , Polly Plummer , Peter Pevensie and his siblings Edmund and Lucy . Susan is absent as she has ceased to believe in Narnia. Peter orders Tash to return to his realm and Tash vanishes with Rishda in his clutches. The real Aslan appears and praises Tirian for his valiant struggle in defense of Narnia. The faithless Dwarfs are present but cannot see they are in Aslan's country; they perceive themselves to be locked in an actual stable. Aslan demonstrates that, without their faith, even he cannot help them. The Friends ask Aslan to heal Narnia, but he admits that even he cannot undo
928-488: Was only the beginning of the true story, "which goes on for ever, and in which every chapter is better than the one before". Floyd C. Gale wrote in Galaxy Science Fiction that the book "is a delightful fantastic fable of the type which the English have excelled since—or perhaps because of— Lewis Carroll ". Macmillan Publishers (United States) The German publisher Holtzbrinck , which bought
960-477: Was owned for several years by corporate successor Paramount Global and now owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts .) The Macmillan and Atheneum adult trade publications were merged into Scribner. Macmillan Publishing USA became the name of Simon & Schuster's reference division (while Macmillan Inc. became simply a legal name for it). Pearson acquired the Macmillan name in America in 1998, following its purchase of
992-459: Was sold to OAG , a sister Maxwell company. Collier's Encyclopedia was sold to Planeta and DeAgostini . What remaining of Macmillan Inc. was eventually sold to Simon & Schuster / Paramount Communications for $ 552.8 million and finalized in February 1994. (At the time, Viacom had just purchased S&S via the acquisition of its former parent company Paramount Communications ; it
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1024-518: Was sold to Thomson Professional Publishing. Macmillan's directories (led by Marquis Who's Who and National Register Publishing) were sold to Reed Publishing . Michie was sold to Mead . Macmillan also sold the department store Gump's , the trade school Katharine Gibbs , and part of its stake in language school Berlitz . Maxwell died in 1991, and Macmillan began selling properties and eventually filed for bankruptcy. Paramount acquired Macmillan Computer Publishing. Standard Rate & Data Service
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