The organisation was formed in 1951 after a letter from Victor Gollancz to The Guardian was read by the future Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who coined the name.

At a later date Gollancz published part one on its own, against Orwell's wishes, and he refused to publish Homage to Catalonia at all.

On one occasion reported by Victor Gollancz, Joyce intoned Anna Livia Plurabelle to his own piano accompaniment.

They initially thought that a book with contributions from Brophy, Ruth Harrison, Maureen Duffy and other well-known writers might be of interest to publishers, but after an initial proposal was turned down by the first publisher they approached, Giles Gordon of Victor Gollancz suggested that the work would be more viable if it included their own writing.

Mabel Fierz had pursued matters with Moore, and at the end of June 1932, Moore told Blair that Victor Gollancz was prepared to publish A Scullion's Diary for a £ 40 advance, through his recently founded publishing house, Victor Gollancz Ltd, which was an outlet for radical and socialist works.

Meanwhile he had to cope with rival claims of publishers Gollancz and Warburg for publishing rights.

In addition to his highly successful publishing business, Gollancz was a prolific writer on a variety of subjects, and put his ideas into action by establishing campaigning groups.

" After all, Gollancz is publishing this book.

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century.

Three years later, in October 1992, Houghton Mifflin sold Gollancz to the publishing house Cassell & Co.

In 2005 Gollancz set up a manga publishing arm, Gollancz Manga, which published UK editions of various Viz Media properties.

Gollancz often refers to the British publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd.

Neither Symons nor the Gollancz publishing house knew anything about a Cameron McCabe, not even whether he was still alive or not.

It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz ( 1893 – 1967 ) and specialised in the publication of high quality literature, nonfiction and popular fiction, including science fiction.

Kingsley Martin rejected two of his works and Gollancz was equally cautious.

Gollancz published the work under the Left Book Club which gave Orwell a far higher circulation than his previous works.

The result of his journeys through the north was The Road to Wigan Pier, published by Gollancz for the Left Book Club in 1937.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying was published by Gollancz on 20 April 1936.

The title improvised by Gollancz, Confessions of a Down and Outer bothered Orwell.

The firm, Gollancz Ltd., published pacifist and socialist nonfiction as well as, by the mid 1930s, a solid selection of contemporary fiction, including authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Daphne du Maurier, and Franz Kafka.

While Gollancz published The Red Army Moves by Geoffrey Cox on the Winter War in 1941, he omitted some criticisms of the USSR.

Starting in 1948, Gollancz made yearly scouting trips to the USA, by 1951 American books made up half of his publications.

Towards the end of June 1943, Gollancz suffered a serious nervous breakdown, believed to have been brought on by overwork ( he had cut out holidays and reduced his social and cultural life ) and his identification with the Nazis ' victims.

They were, like those babies, nearly dead from hunger ..." When Field Marshal Montgomery wanted to allot each German citizen a guaranteed diet of only 1, 000 calories a day and justified this by referring to the fact that the prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had received only 800, Gollancz wrote about starvation in Germany, pointing out that many prisoners never even received 1, 000 calories.

Based on testimonials of German civilians and military, as well as many interviews with British and American politicians and diplomats who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, the political adviser of General Eisenhower, Sir Geoffrey Harrison ( drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol concerning population transfers ), and Sir Denis Allen ( drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders ), the book also describes the crimes committed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, at the end of World War II, and cites the condemnation of the expulsions by Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz, Bishop Bell of Chichester and other contemporary intellectuals.

The descriptions in the novel of a character who lectures at a meeting of Gollancz's Left Book Club, and of the meeting itself, were such that Gollancz ' could not have helped being offended by them.

Gollancz: London, 1971 ( reprinted by Y Lolfa, 1991 ).

His inaugural novel Sorrow for Thy Sons ( 1937 ) was rejected by Gollancz and not published until 1986.

Gollancz: London, 1971 ( reprinted by Y Lolfa, 1991 ).

This collection, the ninth in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, was first published by Gollancz in 1933 and has been frequently reprinted ( 1995 paperback: ISBN 978-0-06-104362-8 ).

In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers first published by Victor Gollancz in 1939.

* The Teachers of Gurdjieff, by Rafael Lefort, 1966, Victor Gollancz, ISBN 0-87728-213-7

He was supported by figures such as Michael Foot, Victor Gollancz and Lord De L ' Isle, VC.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951 ( Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo, translated by Una Vincenzo Troubridge.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1952 ( Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e il suo gregge, translated by Frances Frenaye.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1954 ( Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957 ( Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye.

In June 1964 according to historian Peter Knight-Bertrand Russell, " prompted by the emerging work of the lawyer Mark Lane in the US ... rallied support from other noteworthy and left-leaning compatriots to form a Who Killed Kennedy Committee, members of which included Michael Foot MP, the wife of Tony Benn MP, the publisher Victor Gollancz, the writers John Arden and J.

D. J. Taylor argues that these factors, and the fact that Gollancz was not a person to part with such a sum on speculation, suggest that Gorer was confusing Orwell's eventual earnings from the book with a small contribution for out of pocket expenses that Gollancz might have given him.

Other concerns Gollancz raises are that Orwell should so instinctively dismiss movements such as pacifism or feminism as incompatible with or counter-productive to the Socialist cause, and that Orwell relies too much upon a poorly defined, emotional concept of Socialism.

Early editors, such as Morris, Gollancz and Osgood, took it for granted that the poem was an elegy for the poet's lost daughter ( presumed to have been named Margaret, i. e. ' pearl '); a number of scholars however, including W. H. Schofield, R. M. Garrett, and W. K. Greene, were quick to point out the flaws in this assumption, and sought to establish a definitive allegorical reading of the poem.