Victor Gollancz Ltd

...writing to a formula led to the inclusion in the book of a thinly veiled - and hostile - portrait of Victor Gollancz, his publisher, whom he later left for Jonathan Cape. A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), arguably his best-known work, centred on a...

In this article: Lionel Davidson, Victor Gollancz, Chelsea Murders, Kolymsky Heights, Chaim Weizmann, London, The Rose of Tibet, Frederick Forsyth, Israel, and Hot Enough for June

Sir Victor Gollancz (9 April 1893 - 8 February 1967) was a British publisher, socialist , and humanitarian. Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor...

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...and the development of his political conscience, which includes a denunciation of some aspects of British socialist attitudes and behaviour. Victor Gollancz suggested at the end of 1935 that Orwell spend a short time investigating social...

In this article: George Orwell, Victor Gollancz, Socialism, Coal, The Road to Wigan Pier, Wigan, Left Book Club, Unemployment, and England

...version. and in 1934 he delivered it by motorbike to his agent Leonard Moore for publication by Victor Gollancz, who had published his previous book. Gollancz, smarting from fears of prosecution with regard to another author's work, turned it...

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A Gollancz edition of The Door Into Summer '', displaying the distinctive yellow dust jacket style. '''Victor Gollancz Ltd' was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century. It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz...

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...Hath Bounds. A.P.B. Bookstore (1946) later published as A Grove of Fever Trees, Houghton Mifflin (1950), Jonathan Cape (1951). Mittee. Victor Gollancz (1951), Houghton Mifflin (1952), Chameleon Press (1987), Penguin Books (1991), Toby Press...

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...of essays written by George Orwell in 1940 . It includes the eponymous essay Inside the Whale . Inside the Whale was published by Victor Gollancz as a book of essays on 11 March 1940. Orwell refers to it as a "book" in part three of the...

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...Left Book Club, founded in 1936, was a key left-wing institution of the late 1930s and 1940s in the United Kingdom set up by Stafford Cripps, Victor Gollancz and John Strachey to revitalise and educate the British Left. The Club's aim was to...

In this article: Victor Gollancz, Left Book Club, John Strachey, George Orwell, United Kingdom, Fascism, The Communist Party, J. B. S. Haldane, J. R. Campbell, and Stephen Spender

...the books to Sitwell, who was impressed. The novella, she wrote to Mr. Purdy, was "a masterpiece from every point of view. " At her urging, Victor Gollancz published the stories and the novella in one volume, and British critical response...

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...a great effort to let people do things in their own way. In 1949 her Jane Welsh Carlyle - A Selection of her Letters was published by Victor Gollancz, and was critically commended for its scholarly selection and commentary. Its success led...

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