Fredric Warburg

...being accepted by Secker and Warburg for an advance of GBP800. Prior to the book's publication Fredric Warburg met "Doctor Carl Kuon Suo" - before he changed his name to Dr. Tuesday Lobsang Rampa - and was intrigued by his personality. Warburg...

In this article: The Third Eye, Lama, Tibet, Trepanation, Allegation, and Sovereign Military Order of Malta

...libel action brought a stop to this. Orwell was also able to find a more sympathetic publisher for his views in Frederic Warburg of Secker & Warburg. Orwell returned to Wallington, which he found in disarray after his absence. He acquired...

In this article: George Orwell, Jack London, Jacintha Buddicom, Victor Gollancz Ltd, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Socialism, Spanish Civil War, Animal Farm, and Eton College

...by Gollancz , who had previously published all Orwell's books, and Orwell finally found a sympathetic publisher in Frederic Warburg. Warburg was willing to publish books by the dissident left, that is, by socialists hostile to...

In this article: George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Barcelona, Anarchism, Georges Kopp, Spain, Catalonia, Spanish Civil War, and Frederic Warburg

...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 both...

In this article: Secker and Warburg, George Orwell, Communist Party, J.M. Coetzee, Victor Gollancz, Martin Secker, Heinemann, and Random House

During World War II Warburg served as a corporal in the Home Guard , in the same section where Orwell held the rank of sergeant. Fredric Warburg died of heart failure at University College Hospital, London, on May 25 1981 at the age of 82.

In this article: Fredric John Warburg, George Orwell, Secker and Warburg, Heinemann, Communism, World revolution, Westminster School, and Christ Church, Oxford

...of such questions invariably diminishes the power of a work of art. Indeed, one week after publication, Orwell's publisher, Fredric Warburg, travelled to his author's bedside to take down a statement on precisely this issue. Orwell...

In this article: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Big Brother, Winston Smith, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Julia, Communism, Socialism, and Thought Police

...unrelieved, except by the thought that, if a man can conceive Nineteen Eighty-Four, he can also will to avoid it. " - Fredric Warburg, George Orwell's publisher. Eternal Dirt It was 60 years ago this month that Nineteen...

In this article: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Big Brother, Animal Farm, Totalitarianism, Democracy, Self-determination, Nationalism, and Communism

...'Animal Farm': Reasons For Rejection Letters to the Editor From Mrs. T. S. Eliot Sir,-In today's Diary, Mr. Frederic Warburg is reported as saying that he does not know why T. S. Eliot (in his capacity as a director of Faber & Faber) rejected...

In this article: Animal Farm, T. S. Eliot, Communism, Frederic Warburg, Valerie Eliot, and Faber & Faber

...beef-eating, commonsensical Dr. Johnson (another malleable iconic construct). It is the Orwell who writes to the publisher Fredric Warburg in October 1948, "I think Sartre is a bag of wind and I am going to give him a good boot." It is...

In this article: George Orwell, Bernard Crick, Eton College, Potato, England, and Gavin Maxwell

Fredric Warburg (November 27, 1898 - May 25, 1981) was an English publisher best known for his association with the British author George Orwell. During a career spanning a large part of the 20th Century and ending in 1971, Warburg published...

In this article: George Orwell, Pierre Boulle, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Third Eye, The Bridge over the River Kwai, Mein Kampf, Franz Kafka, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four