Secker and Warburg
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Melvyn Bragg gives archive of life's work to Leeds University...meanwhile. "Faber sent it back eventually with suggestions for changes," he said. "But by that time For Want of A Nail had been accepted by Secker & Warburg, so that was it." The archive contains material on episodes from the movie world... In this article: Melvyn Bragg, University of Leeds, Leeds, Faber & Faber, Secker & Warburg, Mutiny on the Bounty, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh |
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Independent.co.uk - Books | December 26, 2009
White magic: The Woman in White has kept us in suspense for 150 years
...to ghosts, vampires and other aspects of the uncanny." Dr Peters is the author of 'The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins' (Secker & Warburg, 1991) Offensive or abusive comments will be removed and your IP logged and may be used...
In this article: The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins, and Laudanum
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Words off the street: The literary heroes and villians of the Noughties
...talent-spotter as a commissioning editor - no books experience necessary. Having "rescued" Harvill Press, she merged it with Secker & Warburg, thus diminishing two distinguished imprints. RH is a vanity publisher to New Labour (diaries...
In this article: Amazon, Carol Ann Duffy, Melvyn Bragg, Harry Patch, and Larry Page
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Wikipedia | November 28, 2009
Fredric Warburg
...that same year, he and Roger Senhouse were to purchase the publishing firm of Martin Secker (that was in receivership) and renamed it as Secker and Warburg. The firm became renowned for its political stance, being both anti-fascist and...
In this article: Fredric John Warburg, George Orwell, Heinemann, Communism, World revolution, Westminster School, and Christ Church, Oxford
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 24, 2009
QI Book of the Dead exclusive extracts from the brains behind the tv show
...reviews (only The Times called it "almost a work of art"), it became a massive international best-seller. Lobsang Rampa's publishers, Secker & Warburg, admitted that they, too, had had doubts about its authenticity, but thought it would make a...
In this article: Hans Christian Andersen, QI, Diego Rivera, Frida, Leon Trotsky, John Lloyd, Dog, and William Buckland
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Harvill Secker (publisher)
Harvill Secker is a British publishing company formed as Secker and Warburg in 1936 from a takeover of Martin Secker, which was in receivership, by Fredric Warburg and Roger Senhouse. The firm became renowned for its political stance, being...
In this article: George Orwell, Fredric Warburg, Communist Party, J.M. Coetzee, Victor Gollancz, Martin Secker, Heinemann, and Random House
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Aidan Higgins
London: Allison & Busby; Ireland: Brandon Books, 1983; London: Abacus, 1985. Dog Days: A Sequel to Donkey's Years. London: Secker & Warburg, 1998. Donkey's Years: Memories of a Life as Story Told. London: Secker & Warburg,...
In this article: London, Aidan Higgins, New York, Harold Pinter, Dalkey Archive Press, Grove Press, and Normal, IL
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BBC | September 10, 2009
How to Say
...recommendation in the early 1980s, based on the advice of the South African Broadcasting Corporation and his London publisher, Secker and Warburg. However, that vowel can also be pronounced as a monophthong (kuut-SEE), especially by those...
In this article: JM Coetzee, Man Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel, London, and BBC
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Tim Parks
...in season 2001-2002. Medici money : banking, metaphysics, and art in fifteenth-century Florence, 2005. Alberto Moravia, Erotic Tales, Secker & Warburg, 1985. Original title La cosa. Alberto Moravia, The Voyeur, Secker & Warburg, 1986.
In this article: Tim Parks, Antonio Tabucchi, Alberto Moravia, Chatto & Windus, Milestone, Roberto Calasso, Verona, Rome, and Betty Trask Award
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Brigid Brophy
...Ape, Hart-Davis (London), 1953, Random House (New York, NY), 1954, Virago Press (London), 1991. The King of a Rainy Country, Secker & Warburg (London), 1956, Knopf (New York, NY), 1957, reprinted with afterword, Virago Press, 1990.
In this article: Brigid Antonia Brophy, London, New York, NY, Virago Press, God, and The Abbey School, Reading
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I Was Dora Suarez
...novel caused Dan Franklin, the publisher of its three predecessors, to vomit over his desk. As a result of this reader response, Secker & Warburg told the author to take his nauseating wares elsewhere. Scribner took over the fourth novel in...
In this article: I Was Dora Suarez, Robin Cook, Derek Raymond, AIDS, HIV, John Donne, and Gallon Drunk
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Secker & Warburg is a British publishing company formed in 1936 from a takeover of Martin Secker, which was in receivership, by Fredric Warburg and Roger Senhouse. It is therefore somewhat surprising that they were the first publishers of Mein Kampf in 1925. Perhaps equally surprising is that the firm became renowned for its political stance, being both anti-fascist and anti-communist, a position that put them at loggerheads with the ethos of many intellectuals of the time. When George Orwell parted company with Communist Party sympathizer Victor Gollancz over The Road to Wigan Pier, it was to Secker & Warburg that he took his next book Homage to Catalonia. Thereafter they were to publish all of Orwell's work, with author and Warburg becoming intimate friends. Secker & Warburg published other books by key figures of the anti-Stalinist left, such as CLR James, Rudolf Rocker and Boris Souvarine, as well as works by Lewis Mumford.
With its financial position devastated by paper shortages during and after the war, Secker & Warburg were forced to join the Heinemann group of publishers in 1951. During the 1950s and 1960s Secker & Warburg were to publish the works of, amongst others, Simone de Beauvoir, Collette, Alberto Moravia, Günter Grass, Angus Wilson, Melvyn Bragg and Julian Gloag, as well as the British Buddhist Lobsang Rampa.
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